Time Management is a myth.

No matter how organized we are; there are only 24 hours in a day. Time doesn’t change. All we can actually manage is ourselves and what we do with the time we have.

The 1st step to becoming more successful is to evaluate how you are spending your time now; this is going to give you a benchmark to track your progress.

Tracking your daily activities lets you see where your time is being spent, and gives you the data you need to set goals and make the changes to your work habits that will make you more successful.

You can use a day-planner, calendar, software program, digital recorder of a paper notebook to record your daily activities. Use whatever you are comfortable using.

Don’t record unnecessary information (example: I talked on the phone today for 20 minutes with Mary and she told me that her son is getting straight A’s in school.) Instead write down something like: personal phone call (20 minutes.) It is the activity and the time you spent on it that is important to capture. Also at this point, don’t distinguish between personal and business activities. You want a complete picture of your schedule. Now that you have identified how you are spending your time, you can start to eliminate some of your time wasters.

Following is a short list of some of the more common time wasters:

You can establish priorities that highlight your most important goals, allowing you to base your decisions on what is important to you and your business and what is not.