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Balancing Time In Business

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No matter what type of job you have or what business you work in, balancing business and a personal life is an important consideration. Many people work too hard and don’t allow enough time for a personal life. For business owners, finding enough personal time can be an even greater challenge. Home party plan consultants need to find a way to balance their business needs with their personal lives.

Having enough time is similar to having enough money. We spend time and we spend money. We save time and we save money. Sometimes there’s not enough time at the end of the day and sometimes there’s not enough money at the end of the month. Just as we need to budget money, we also need to budget time.

People who live on a budget often write down all income and expenses. This allows them to see where the money goes, and how much they can spend on certain items. With a written budget, they can plan and save for a vacation or the purchase of a big-ticket item.

Time Management Means Balance

Time budgeting and management will also help you find more time when needed. Scheduling time for various tasks for your business will help you balance time for personal tasks. If you create a schedule and stick to it, it will be easier to walk away from your business at the end of the day and enjoy some leisure time.

When using a schedule to balance business and personal time, one time management technique that works is to categorize your tasks. Make sure to categorize both business and personal tasks.

  • Tasks that are urgent and have a deadline can be assigned an A
  • Tasks that need to be completed, but have a deadline in the future or have no deadline, can be assigned a B
  • Tasks that are extraneous and have no deadline, can be assigned a C
  • Tasks that are superfluous or involve exploring something new, can be assigned a D.

You can put these tasks into two groups – one for business, and one for personal. You can put the “A” tasks in any order, then follow that with the “B” tasks, and so on. When using this type of time management, you do need to be flexible. Surprises, both good and bad, can happen at any time. If you have an immediate crisis at work, such as an unhappy client, don’t hesitate to put it at the top of the list. On the other hand, if you have an old friend come into town for the day, don’t hesitate to put that on top of the personal list.

Home Business Schedule

Creating a home business schedule that includes a categorized and prioritized list is an integral component of an effective time management system. If you are a home party plan consultant, you know how hard it can be to step away from your business to enjoy some personal time. However, finding a balance will help you achieve success in business and happiness in your personal life.

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How to Go From Frazzled To Fantastic: 5 Surefire Ways to Avoid Burnout in Your Life & Business

Kimberly Rhodes Leave a Comment

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Proven Life Management Strategies

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Time management is really life management. How you use your time controls everythingthat happens in your life. The success of your relationships, goal achievement, financial success, and even personal happiness, are all determined by HOW you use time.

All truly successful people are excellent time managers. They’re organized – they know where they are, and where they are going. As a result they get more done in less time, and have more free time to enjoy life.

Clarify Your Priorities
The first step in taking control of your time is to define and set your priorities.

High achievers are expert at separating out the essential from the less critical.

To get started, ask yourself, “What is the best use of my time right now?” Every action involves a choice between what’s more important. Doing one thing means not doing something else.

Separate the urgent from the important. Ask yourself, “What is the long term consequence of NOT doing this now?” Don’t do anything you can delegate.

Remember: Your aim in time management is to increase your return on energy.
Put lower priority items on the back burner.

Get Focused
When working on something, focus totally on your task. Get clear on your task: “What am I trying to accomplish? How am I doing to do this? Is there a better, easier, or more enjoyable way?”

Write It Down
There are several ways to designate which tasks are the most important. One way is to create two lists: a short-term checklist and a long-term, top-priority list.

Organized plans of action are a great time saver. Each time you make your planning schedule be sure to include some activity that works toward your long and short term goals.

Know Your Peak Productivity Times
All of us have work rhythms and certain times of the day when we do better work than at other times. The ability to stay focused plays a major role in saving time. To do this, you have to find the time of the day when you work at peak efficiency.

Block Your Time
An important part of effective time management is being able to set aside blocks of time when you will not be interrupted. This allows you to better focus on your work.

Organize Your Work Space
Organizing your time is easier when you organize your workspace. A cluttered desk creates stress and distracts you from focusing on the task at hand.

Don’t Reward Procrastination
Poor time management can be draining and energy zapping. Take procrastination: Procrastination is a learned behavior that is established through reward.

The moment you fail to do something and instead turn to watching television or some other “preferred” activity, you have rewarded yourself for procrastinating.

Change such a habit by breaking your task into smaller steps you can accomplish easily, then reward yourself for completing each step.
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One of Life’s Great Lessons – Learn to be Thankful for What You Already Have

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Is thankfulness a survival skill? Perhaps most of you would respond with, “No, Jim, thankfulness is not key to survival”, and I would tend to agree with you. Most of us have probably already solved the necessary problems of survival, gone beyond that and are now working to achieve our desires. But let me give you this key phrase, “Learn to be thankful for what you already have, while you pursue all that you want.” I believe one of the greatest and perhaps one of the simplest lessons in life we can learn is to be thankful for what we have already received and accomplished.

Both the years and the experiences have brought me here to where I stand today, but it is the thankfulness that opened the windows of opportunities, of blessings, of unique experiences to flow my way.

My gratitude starts with my parents who raised me, gave me an incredible foundation that has lasted me all of these years and continues with the mentors that I’ve met along the way who absolutely changed and revolutionized my life, my income, my bank account, my future. I am also very thankful for the people, the associations, for the ideas, for the chance to work and labor, and to produce results, all of that has brought me to this place, to this weekend. I’m grateful for it all.

What a unique opportunity each one of you here has, so many of us; representing different countries, nations and cultures, to appreciate the uniqueness of our own experiences that has brought us all here, together, for these three days to learn new skills and sharpen old ones. For the countries we represent; we have freedom and liberty. These are extraordinary times, about eleven years ago the walls came tumbling down, in Germany, and it started a wave of democracy and freedom like the world has never seen before. We as a country and as a world have so much to be thankful for. Always start with thanksgiving; be thankful for what you already have and see the miracles that come from this one simple act.

Now thankfulness is just the beginning; next, you’ve got to challenge yourself to produce. Produce more ideas than you need for yourself so you can share and give your ideas away. That is called fruitfulness and abundance.
Here’s what I think fruitfulness and abundance mean – to go to work on producing more than you need for yourself so you can begin blessing others, blessing your nation and blessing your enterprise. Once abundance starts to come, once someone becomes incredibly productive, it’s amazing what the numbers turn out to be. But to begin this incredible process of blessing, it often starts with the act of thanksgiving and gratitude, being thankful for what you already have and for what you’ve already done. Begin the act of thanksgiving today and watch the miracles flow your way.

Jim Rohn is considered to be “America’s Foremost Business Philosopher”. He been delivering his life and work-changing seminars for over 39 years… addressed over 6,000 audiences and four million people worldwide… he is the recipient of the 1985 National Speakers Association CPAE Award… authored 17 different books, audio and video programs… and, Mr. Rohn is internationally hailed as one of the most influential thinkers of our time.

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