Do you manage your time well? Are the minutes flying by while you are idle?

Some great stuff has been written about time management. Even in the last 24 hours!

Ponder this:

Here’s an interesting thought: Rich people have 24 hours in each day, and poor people have 24 hours each day! The reason that some people are successful and wealthy, while others struggle through, is not time, but what people do with their time. Source.

Here is a very common mistake many of us make:

Most people, including myself earlier in my career make a big mistake: they keep an action list without setting priorities. It typically contains entries from top to bottom about calling people, filing documents, sending faxes, setting appointments. And at the end of the day, most of the actions have been done and people feel good about it. Source.

What follows are some amazing pointers to help you manage your time.

This comes from earn-ez.com:

Plan your time - Jim Rohn says that you should never start the day, until you have finished it on paper. If you plan the tasks ahead of you, you can easily see what needs doing and what order would be most productive.

Eat that frog! - Brian Tracy’s book of the same name suggests that we are most productive if we do our biggest task, the one we are most likely to procrastinate on first.

Make a to do list - Three simple steps to success: Each night write a list of tasks for the following day, when you wake up start at the top of the list, don’t go to bed until you reach the end!

Make sure to prioritize that to do list!

So folks, I have a few questions.

Do you have problems managing your time? What are some tips to better handle our time?

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