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2- Time Management Quick Tip

Time Management Strategy #2

The Time Bank

This time management strategy will definitely give you a better way to manage your time.

They say time = money. Well if that’s true then let us starting thinking about time in that fashion.

Every 24 hours consist of 96 fifteen minute blocks. No more … no less. Imagine the universe set up an account in your name at the "time bank." The beginning of each day you get 96 time blocks deposited into your account.

Through out the day, 1 block of time gets deducted from your account every 15 minutes. This keeps happening all day long until all the time blocks get deducted from your account.

It doesn’t matter if you did something or not during a 15 minute time block, it will get deducted regardless. At the end of the day, all the time blocks for that day are now gone

But… you start fresh again at the beginning of the day with another 96 time blocks.

The time management shift for hours to time blocks allows you to really think about how you use your time. .

Our clients found that when they put this perspective on their time, they gain better control over how they used their time blocks. You can schedule your activities in specific time blocks

Email provides a great example of how to use time blocks. Lets say you dedicate 2 time blocks a day to handle your email. On your weekly schedule, you block out those 2 time blocks every day.

At that time, you do nothing but deal with your email, you respond to your email, delete it, file it etc. You don’t answer the phone, work on another project… nothing except email.

Now email doesn’t keep interrupting your day because you know you set aside a certain amount of time blocks to deal with it. You can schedule several time blocks during the day to handle your email. You set up the time blocks to best fit your life and business.

Time blocking takes some practice and a shift in your mindset. But once you become more effective at blocking time, the more control you gain over your day.

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"The Time Diva"

Ann Rusnak, "The Time Diva" developed a system to show busy self employed solo business owners how to gain more time and increase sales working less hours. Receive the FREE eBook "Thinking Outside the Clock" when you sign up for Time Myth Busting Minutes ezine at: SimpleTimeManagement.com

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