Nine Best Time Management Tips

The holidays are behind us and 2011 is almost done. How many projects have we started and how many will we finish? Julie Morgenstern, author of Time Management inside out opines the best way to get organised is to channge your perception of time-and I agree.

Here are a few things that work for me:

1. Never start the day without a plan on paper.
2. Chunk related tasks together.
3. Try to do your routine, mindless tasks after lunch when creativity is lower than in mid-morning.
4. When working with telephone calls always have a call list and work the numbers say six calls per hour and just do it.
5. Try to keep your e-mail answering to 3 short sessions, say first thing, then half an hour after lunch and just before closing.
6. Try not to work on computers after eight o'clock at night.
7. Practice Transcendental Meditation, it keeps your brain waves orderly and you're thinking coherent.
8. Learn to say “no.”
9. Try to find good assistance—I know of the existence of VWorker and other online services, but use them very little. Except that I do my programming in Bangalore. So there are many writers that rave about outsourcing everything. You have to be quite clever to do this but it works.