As promised, here are a few tips on how to free up more time in your day:
1)Emails: emails are one of the best communication tools ever and the worst time-stealer. People spend too much time checking “unnecessary” emails. Stop reading those forwards (poems, jokes, stories, scams). The average person (not too popular) received 5 forwards a day. They all take on average 5 minutes to read and forward, which represent 25 minutes of your day. Do yourself a favor, start hitting the delete button as soon as you spot them. Ok ok! If you really like to read them, create a folder for them. When you receive them, put them in there and one of these days you happen to be totally bored out of your mind because you are rich and been sipping Pina colada all day on the beach, you can go back and read them.
2)Telemarketing calls: Simple, stop answering them and if you do, kindly ask them to remove you from list. Good news! The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced on December 21, 2007 that it has awarded a five-year contract to Bell Canada to operate the National Do Not Call List (DNCL). The list should be launched by September 30, 2008. Soon you will be free of telemarketers, if you wish. For our Americans friends, this service already exist, www.donotcall.gov
3)Instant messengers (Msn, Yahoo, Aol etc.) & Social networks (Facebook, Hi5, My Space etc.) are a great way to network and stay in touch but the average person can spend easily an hour a day just chatting and checking other people profiles. Great tools but need to manage them wisely.
4)Say no: learn to say NO to everyone little request. You cannot be everything to everybody and its okay. Your time is precious, if you had something planned and somebody comes up to you and ask you to do something that will stop you from working on what you had planned. Simply say no and Don't feel guilty.
5)Plan your week: Have a to do list. When something comes up, simply add it to that “to do” list. The list should be arrange in priority order. Priority is from most important to least important. NOT from most urgent to least. Why: Things that are urgent are not always important.
As you can see, it really come down to prioritize! Try these 5 tips and if you don't manage to save an extra hour a day, send me a comment and I will give you some more tips.
So once you have that extra hour a day (7 hours a week), what are you going to do with it?
You guess right! Put it toward the achievement of one of your goals.
“Treat your time like gold - invest carefully. It's your most valuable asset and once it's gone you can't have it back. If you use it wisely it reaps dividends like well invested money.” Author unknown
Jephtée Elysée
About Me
- Jephtée Elysée
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- I am a very ambitious lady. My ultimate goal in life is to leave the world a better place then how I’ve found it. There’s currently 5 loves in my life: God, my family, my friends, my career and of course the man I want to give it all to. Not necessarily in that order :-) The hardest thing is to keep a good balance between those 5 areas. So yes, I have a goal, a vision, a fire that keeps me up at night and this newsletter is one of the necessary stones in building that vision. It can be unrealistic to try to change everything that is wrong in the world but it is my believe that one person at a time, its all that it takes. If this blog makes a difference in one person life, I will be happy… ok I can’t lie, I am way too ambitious to be content with one person only.
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