Time wasters can be extremely detrimental to your overall time management and business success. It is so easy to procrastinate over to do lists, meet up with clients for lunch or to find yourself social networking for hours on end! If you could limit the amount of time you waste on various unproductive tasks, you could find yourself with hours to spare!

Emails

Don’t leave your inbox open all the time: you will easily get distracted. Schedule just two or three dedicated time slots throughout the day to read and action e-mail correspondence.

Phone Calls

Do you spend the first twenty minutes of a phone call catching up with clients or business associates? If you find you digress on calls, produce an agenda and distribute it before the call – you will both be far more focused throughout, enabling the call to be kept on track with a productive outcome.

Meetings

Avoid attending meetings that do not require your input. Where you do attend, if possible ensure an agenda is followed and leave once you have finished your slot. Don’t waste time listening to other issues that have no relation to your work.

Schedule Time

If you need to hide yourself away to focus on a particular business task or important admin, make sure this happens! Block out time in your diary for exclusive work time and don’t allow any interruptions such as phone calls to get in the way.

Write It Down

If you struggle to identify your time wasters, then document your entire day. You could even use a timesheet. This will help you to see exactly how your time is being spent and you can address the issue head on. Identifying time wasters in all aspects of your life, and tackling each one, is enlightening and invigorating. You will end up reclaiming so much lost time! Good luck with ridding your schedule of time wasters for good!

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