Friday, February 27, 2009

Why Put Off Until Tomorrow What You Can Do Today?

Time management is the number one struggle that entrepreneurs will face. Marketing, sales, and delivery of your product or service are all stressful elements, but they are made more so by the finite amount of time that we all have to get things done.

One of the best tools to help prioritize is to make a to do list of all the things you have on your plate. It can be a combination of work and personal tasks if you want to look at it holistically, although some prefer to do a separate list for each.

Next- use the ABC method to prioritize. Put one of these three letters beside each task.

A= Tasks that are both urgent and important

B= Tasks that are important, but not urgent

C= Tasks that are neither urgent nor important

By using this method you will be able to focus on the tasks that need the most amount of attention because they have the highest impact. The goal is to try and have most things on the list be labeled B or C- as most tasks that are urgent today are tasks that have not been completed when they should have been.

Taking the urgency out of your to do list means greater efficiency and less stress.

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