Life by Design: Time Managing Your Business

In a recent blog titled, "Fine Tuning Your Goals", I wrote on maximizing one's potential in reaching their goals. Time managing those goals can give you a better clarity in your daily life by simply clarifying your values, defining those goals and develop a plan to reach them.

Organization is one of the fundamental keys to any business and using shortcuts to manage your time more effectively is one of them. Assessing how you manage your time is prudent in establishing a healthy environment and help you de-stress over minor things that you once thought were major can help you focus into even bigger and better projects.

Time management is often overlooked because we are constantly rushing, or have low energy, enthusiasm or motivation. Our daily stressors and deadlines can cause frustration, impatience and procrastination.

Would you rather feel that you have more time in the day or not have enough time in 24 hours? Maximizing time-management can offer you the freedom of procrastination, mental fatigue and deadline anxiety.

Below are a few simple steps in maximizing time-management into your daily schedule without feeling guilty of procrastination.

Clarifying Your Values: Indentifying Your Highest Priorities

Your values depend on your priorities in life. Identifying the most important and relevant values in your life will help you coordinate and prioritize your time in a meaningful way by helping you establish an identity in each one of them. Start by focusing on your core values such as family first, spirituality, finances, leisure time, peace of mind, career, travel, health, friends, a new home, etc.

Find what priorities rank highest and put at the top of your list. Your lower priorities should be listed at the bottom. You will be able to identify which values are most important to you by creating a list from your highest to lowest priorities. This will able and help give you a better direction in life.

Example:

Things that you thought were important to you are not that important to you anymore because you did not give it a higher value in your list thus creating a whole new meaning in your daily activities and priorities such as family, career, spiritually, finances, etc. There is no right or wrong way to list your values. You are a unique individual.

What is a top priority for you right now may differ from another family member, co-worker, child, spouse, friends, etc. There is no right or wrong answers on evaluating your list of values as long as it is time-effective for you and will work for you. The latter will differ if your plans are compromised with a spouse or perhaps with your children but you get the picture.

You are the master of your own destination and only you can decide for yourself what your core values are.

How do you implement time-management and goal setting to effectively design your timeline?

Ask yourself these questions:

•1. Is this goal something that I want to devote most of my time with?
•2. Is it a dream?
•3. Is it consistent with my highest to lowest goals?
•4. Is my goal achievable?
•5. Is it positive?
•6. Are my goals in balance?
•7. Are my goals realistic?

Sometimes uneventful things that happen in life can cause a block into your time-management but it is how you manage your time that will help keep you focused and remain prioritized. These events will cause you to reassess your goals but by sticking to your plan while reevaluating your values will help you be a better judge and the captain of your future.

Challenges bring opportunities and these uneventful things might just bring something positive into our lives no matter how negative they may seem. Be mindful and the universe will talk to you, it's up to you to listen.

Source: The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook, 5th Edition 2007, Davis and Esq. New Harbinger Publications, Inc
www.newharbinger.com

© 2008 Diana Perez