Create More Time in Your Day – Summary
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
It’s not impossible to start a side business while being stuck in a permanent job. People do it all the time, yet I still hear from people daily, saying to me / emailing me, that they cannot do it because:
They Don’t Have the Time!
Sorry, but that is a LIE! Every person on this planet has one thing in common .. 24 hours in a day, no more and no less.
So if you tell me that you don’t have enough time, you are lying. You are just prioritising your time incorrectly.
Bill Gates, Donald Trump, Tony Robbins and all other successful people I know of do not have more time in a day than the person sitting in front of the Boob Tube for 5 hours a day .. They just prioritise their time better.
That is the main difference between success and failure. Successful people use there limited resources (like time) a lot better than the average person.
Do you know the average person sits in front of the TV .. 5 hours a day … 5 HOURS of mindless activity … that is insane, but that is why they are average.
If you want to be above average though, you have to make sure you do NOT do what the average person does .. so lets start looking at how EXACTLY the successful person manages the one resource you cannot buy … TIME!
Below I have listed a few VERY important steps you can impliment in your daily life to “buy” more time. Once you have it, just imagine what you can do with it …
- Handle issues once. If you need to do something and it will take less than 5 minutes to do … do it immediately (ie emails, phone calls, paperwork etc)
- DO NOT spend time in front on the TV in the morning. The average person spends 30 minutes in the morning listening to the news and starting the day off with negativity … a BIG no-no.
- Stuck in Traffic – Turn your car into a Library. I have been doing this for a year now and the amount of knowledge I have aquired in 1 year is just mind blowing!
- Don’t Waffle .. Make a Decision. Most of the time we know what we need to do, but we put it off by making excuses and procrastinating. Just Do It … you are wasting time.
- Turn off ALL distractions when you are in the Zone. We all have a time of day we really get going and get a lot done. Make sure you concentrate on your tasks and DO NOT get distracted by technology (email, internet, news, RSS feeds etc)
- The Big One – STOP WATCHING SO MUCH TV. In my case I have cut it down to max 30 minutes a day (most ofthe days it’s no TV for me). The free time that is created by knowing you will not spend more time wasted on the couch has pushed my productivity through the roof.
So there you have it. 6 EASY Steps that can be implimented in your life with starting NOW …..
So … What are you waiting for??