Carving Out Time

Do you ever think that if the day just had a few more hours in it then all of your "to-dos" will be done? Well, I am right there with you most of the time. I have really had to learn to budget my time accordingly based on my priorities, but you know what SOMETHING always happen and the list gets out of whack. Today for instance, I was using my daughters adding machine (8 years old and that is what she asks for her birthday LOL) anyways I was doing real well finishing a project I had to complete in Quickbooks when we got to the end of the paper tape. No big deal, right? Just grab another roll of tape and slap it in. Well I gave the roll to my darling husband and then 20 MINUTES later we finally had it ready to go. It wasn't that it was beyond our knowledge base of how to put the tape in, but one little thing after another and it took us 20 minutes...unbelievable! But that lead me to the notion of that is how the day gets away from me at times. It's those darn little unplanned things that take just a little longer than you thought and when you add all of those up you suddenly have lost very valuable time.
I guess that is why I purposely try not to schedule tightly. I try to plan time for the unplanable. I even do that with my business. If I set a goal for myself to sign up 10 people by the end of the week, I use to wait up to the wire then push myself until I couldn't even breath. Then when I didn't make my goal I set for myself I would say "Man, there just wasn't enough time". I now know that it was a lot due to my scheduling too much in one day that lead to my rush then burn out. I try to break it up evenly now throughout the week so that by the end of the week I am still just getting the same amount of people for my goal as I was getting on the first day. Sure, it always doesn't work out exactly the way that I have planned, but then I suppose, that would be too boring. At least I am headed in the right direction, and many more goals are being met because of it. Try it yourself, just carve out a little bit of time and soon you will wonder how you ended up with a little free time on your hands.

Laura Lamberth
http://www.financialfreedomfamily.com/