Effective Time Management is Critical to Goal Achievement

08/24/24 • 1 min

The Accountability Minute:Business Acceleration|Productivity

When you are time blocking your calendar, you want to make sure to include buffer time for something that has a deadline. Say you have to submit a proposal to a prospective client by a certain date. In order to have it done, you determine approximately how much time you think it will take to create the proposal and then add a bit of time to that total. You then give yourself a deadline for completion that is 2 or 3 days before the actual ‘drop dead’ deadline.

This means that if you have issues and unforeseen things that occur, you still will complete it by the actual deadline date. This works well when you have to rely on others to help you get something done. If you get it done early, all the better for you and what impression it will make with the prospective client.

You may have to go through trial and error on a schedule until you find optimal results. Some people are early birds and will tackle certain tasks first thing, while others will find they are more effective in the afternoon. Just be sure to schedule tasks when they can be achieved with the greatest efficiency and outcome.

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Anne Bachrach

The Accountability CoachTM

Aim for what you want each and every day!

Anne Bachrach

The Accountability CoachTM

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Effective Time Management is Essential To Your Success

One of the success principles of any successful business person is effective time management. In order to create your ideal business and life, you must learn to schedule EVERYTHING (like time for breakfast and lunch, drive time, exercise time, family time, etc.) and be extremely effective at time management. If you want to get things done, scheduling time to do them will give you the highest probably of actually doing them.

When you begin to time block activities, take a look at everything you have to do and how long you think it will take to get each one done, and then add “cushion” time to each activity. I haven’t been able to come up with a rule of them for how much extra time should be given to each activity. It is dependent on you and the activity. You may have to explore in the beginning to figure out what works best for you based on how well you estimated the initial time.

If you actually do finish before the time you allotted, you have the gift of time to move on to the next activity. In time, you will become better at how much time you actually need for each activity.

Aim for what you want each and every day!

Anne Bachrach

The Accountability CoachTM

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Effective Time Management – Do Similar Activities Together

Effective time management allows you to identify similar activities that can be completed together. If you have several activities that are the same type of activity, do them all at the same time. For example, you would do certain types of calls all at the same time (like revenue generation), conduct potential client discovery meetings, conduct annual meetings with clients, etc.

For lower-payoff activities like administrative duties, specify during certain times in the day they will be completed. When you don’t continually have to change from one type of an activity to a totally different kind of activity, while working on the activities required to achieve your goals, you will save a lot of time and mental energy.