Comments on: Win a copy of ‘About Time’

By: Fiona

Fiona — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:18:13 +0000

Thanks to everybody for some fabulous time management tips!
And congratulations to Melissa and Trevor for winning a copy of ‘About Time’.

By: Jeff Smith

Jeff Smith — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:22:09 +0000

10 phone calls before 10am everyday

By: Marion Jackson

Marion Jackson — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:59:36 +0000

My best time managment tip is to pick only a couple of social networking sites to promote your business on. If you’re on too many you’ll find it difficult to keep up with them all, which means you’ll end up doing a half-hearted job on all of them.
Once you’ve worked out which one’s work best for you, allocate yourself no more than an hour every other day to ‘chat’ online. It’s easy to get sidetracked, so get an egg-timer and stop when it goes ‘bing’!!

By: Rochelle Hume

Rochelle Hume — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:07:50 +0000

My time management tip is to operate a nil inbox, every email is either turned into a task, deleted, filed or forwarded for action.

Keeps my mind better organised too…

My second best time management tip is to stay off Twitter… but I don’t manage that so well, eh Miles?

By: Miles Ashworth

Miles Ashworth — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:40:38 +0000

My best tip would be to plan what I am going to do for the first hour on the following day before leaving the office. This means I get on with something and am not tempted to check emails / visit facebook until I have got some work done.

By: Nicky Thomson

Nicky Thomson — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:37:49 +0000

My best time management tip would be to learn to delegate!

By: Trevor Huett

Trevor Huett — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:34:44 +0000

I use the voice recorder in my mobile phone while I am travelling, or just away from my desk to capture those to-do notes, ideas, reminders, that spring in to my mind. It means I don’t have to remember thoughts that occur when I am away from my desk.

I also listen to podcasts on my mobile phone that allow me to listen to business, documentary or entertainment programs when I want to listen to them, rather than trying to catch them when they are broadcast on the radio. Good for dog walking!

By: Sandra Newton

Sandra Newton — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:28:24 +0000

“Touch things only once”.

This means when you open a letter/email etc deal with it then and there, don’t keep coming back to it and re-reading it over and over again only to decide to ‘do it later’.

If you can’t deal with it right then? – Schedule a time to take care of it (ie an appointment) in your diary and deal with it at that time (but don’t read/re-read it till then!)

By: Alan Good

Alan Good — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:23:59 +0000

Learning to say no more often

By: Mike Collis

Mike Collis — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:23:35 +0000

Learning to delegate effectively (using tips I got from a fellow BNIer http://www.esemel.co.nz – perhaps email linda@esemel.co.nz and ask her for a copy of her Delegation Tip Sheet) is creating much more time in my day to work on the business instead of just in the business.