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Time management is the major skill behind all success. Your ability to manage your time and to focus on the most important tasks will determine your income and your level of accomplishment in life more than any other factor.

Time Management Is Life Management

Time management is really life management. It is about taking control over what you do next. And it’s up to you alone to choose the task that you will do next. Your ability to choose between the important and the unimportant is the key determinant of your success in life and work.

The 80/20 Rule

The 80/20 Rule is one of the most helpful guidelines of time and life management. This rule says that 20% of your activities will account for 80% of your results. For example, 20% of your customers will account for 80% of your sales. 20% of your products or services will account for 80% of your profits. 20% of your tasks will account for 80% of the value of what you do…etc.

Effective, productive people discipline themselves to start on the most important tasks first. As a result, they accomplish more than the average person and are much happier as a result.

Excellent Time Management Gets Noticed

The fact is that if you do an excellent job in a timely fashion, you cannot help but be paid more and promoted faster. We live in a society of unlimited opportunity where we are paid and rewarded on the basis of our contributions.

Efficiency Starts With Good Habits

According to the studies, over 50% of workers do not even work a full day. They are continually distracted, they socialize. and shoot the breeze without even realizing how time is being wasted. Ask yourself: does this describe you?

Try this exercise: measure how long you can work on a task without becoming distracted or getting up. Whatever that number is, resolve to increase it by 5 minutes the first 3 weeks, 10 minutes the next 3 weeks, 15 minutes the next 3 weeks…etc. The reason for the 3-week increments is that it takes 3 weeks to learn a habit, good or bad.

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