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One of the biggest things that I used to help me manage my time was to implement the FranklinCovey system. Preferably at the end of the day, before you go to bed, write a list of the things that you need to do the following day. These items or tasks can typically be divided into four categories: Urgent/Important, Urgent/Non-Important, Non- Urgent/Important, and Non-Urgent/Non-Important.

Examples of these could be the following:

•Urgent/Important: Make the car payment, finish a work report that’s due tomorrow

•Urgent/Non-Important: Make a phone call interrupting your activity

•Non-Urgent/Important: Prepare your will, get your yearly physical, work out

•Non-Urgent/Non-Important: Watch TV, surf the Net

Typically the most important tasks are the Non-Urgent/Important tasks, with the Urgent/Important tasks pretty close in importance.

So, make that list of all the items that you want to complete the following day. The way I typically do it is that, after making this list, I categorize the items with a letter A, B, C, or D. A means that this is an item that you must get done. B is an item that you should get done. C is for items that you could get done, but aren’t necessarily needed. Finally, D means that this item is trivial. Next, write numbers next to each item in each section, in the order that you want to complete them, giving the most important item the number 1. Then, when tomorrow comes, you start with Al and work on it till it’s completed, then you move to A2, and so forth.

I do recommend that you do this every evening so that your subconscious mind can work through it as you sleep, and you will be more prepared when the day begins.

This idea has been around for ages, and it is so simple that it’s scary. I do highly recommend that you check out your local office supplies store for FranklinCovey products, and look into getting their planning system/calendar. It is a great investment and a great time- management system, and it has allowed me to be much more productive with bits and pieces of time than I would have been otherwise. The key is to get into the habit of using it.

It’s also important to look at people who have had it worse than you do who have succeeded! No matter the situation, you can always find people in worse shape than you who have overcome their issues and have moved forward. Some people have tremendous health issues that they have overcome, others have had severe financial setbacks, and others have had to battle time-management issues. Look for people that have been worse off than you currently are, and use their successes to help motivate you to get the job done. “If he can do it, then I sure as heck should be able to as well!”

For me, I think the single thing that had the biggest impact was realizing that there was no task too small that didn’t matter. I have firmly come to the conclusion that taking a series of little actions add up to big results. In my opinion, it’s not an “Additive Effect”, but more of a “Multiplying Effect” , where three actions plus three actions don’t equal six actions, but end up coming out to nine. Something that may appear to be a small action internally may end up having a huge effect in the outside world.

It’s like dropping a pebble in the water. While the pebble is small, that single pebble can have multiple ripples that can go for great distances. There’s an old saying that a butterfly flapping his wings can cause a ripple so far away that it will cause a tsunami thousands of miles away. You never know what your continuous small actions will lead to!