We are all given the same number of hours in a day to get things done. I know I find that I get sidetracked many times throughout the day. As a result, I’ve been looking for all of the little ways to gain more time in your day. I decided to track the things that are time sucks for me. Many times I find that the very things I’m trying to fix are the same things my friends are working on too.
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Gain More Time In Your Day:
Unsubscribe to emails you never read.
Set up canned responses for emails with questions you get asked repeatedly
Buy your products online – I have compiled a blog post that will help you be able to put money in your pocket for saving yourself money on gas and time spent running errands.
Make lists! Only make trips into town for the things you can’t buy online once a week. If you’re savvy do it monthly.
Focus on one task at a time. Multitasking has its place, but in more cases, than not it is truly a hindrance.
Organization helps save time and money. Make sure everything you own has its place. Putting things away when you’re done using them doesn’t take much time. (This makes it easier to not only find things. This will help you know how much of those products you have on hand at all times.)
Be sure that you keep your home decluttered of things you don’t need.
Put a routine in place. That way family and friends can know when they can spend time with you without interrupting whatever productivity activities you must do.
Clean as you go. It’s far easier to keep a house clean than it is to spend hours cleaning messes ground into everything. Rachel from Smart Mom Smart Ideas has come up with 100 Cleaning Tips and Hacks For Busy Moms that will help make this task easier.
Use Block Apps. Mashable shared 6 Apps That Block Online Distractions. These are beneficial to use if you don’t have the willpower to stay off social media or checking your email every few minutes. Even my beloved Entrepreneur magazine suggested using the Onward app to help balance tech-life.
Learn to say NO. This one is still a hard one for me to conquer. We can’t be everywhere at once. It’s so easy not to keep track of the amount of time we lose doing things for/with other people that weren’t planned on.
Practicing time management can be one of the strongest gifts we can give ourselves and our teenagers. Order Out of Chaos has a sale on their planners until September 30, 2017. Be sure to use the coupon code PLANNER20.
I know that I am glad that I learned this skill early on in life because it has helped me to be able to advance into management positions as a teenager. It has also helped me to be able to work from home and homeschool my kids. I still fall into these little time traps!
I hope that these ideas will help you gain more time in your day. They may not sound like very much at all, but when you combine them, they can be pretty significant time savers.
Talk to me in the comments, please:
What are some little ways you gain more time in your day?
I’m trying to start my day one hour earlier. It’s been my second day and so far so good. Why can’t there just be 8 days in the week? I need a DAY. (And for people to leave me alone!)
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Hi Crystal!!
Saw this from Saturday Sparks Link Party and had to come check it out!! I just unsubscribed to several newsletters that I don’t read or need that clutter up my inbox! Thank you! I know I’ll be using some of the other tips you suggest! Just what I needed this morning!!
Thank you!!
Jan
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Thanks for sharing these tips- these are helpful ways to be more productive. I think for me, the main thing at the moment is trying not to take on too much in the first place- accepting that time is limited and trying to choose how to use it well rather than trying to do it all. Visiting from Glimpses.
These are great! Thanks for sharing — I’m encouraged to make use of every minute for the glory of God!
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Oh my goodness, these are spot on! I’ve just been trying to be more intentional about time management and organization. There are so many great little things to do to streamline tasks. And I LOVE what you wrote about not multitasking…I’m so guilty of that! 🙂 Glad I stopped by from Mommy Moments today. ❤
Oh my goodness those emails drive me crazy. I’ve just started unsubscribing. At first I felt guilty as I know I feel a little pang when someone unsubscribes from my blog. However, if I don’t read them they are just cluttering up by inbox. I’m becoming more discerning! Have a great day!
I agree with all of this. Thank you. #twinklytuesday
These are great tips! I will definitely give some a go, I need all the extra minutes I can get. One thing I try to do is spread housework over the week rather than trying to do loads in one go on one day. 10 minutes focusing on just one room a day makes a difference. #DreamTeam
I really liked this quote: “Make sure everything you own has its place. ” That has always been my mantra. The struggle is that my family doesn’t always do this. I think my biggest time suck might just be either asking family members to put their stuff away or putting family members stuff away. The biggest way I am learning to have more time in my day is by going back to having a schedule with time blocks for everything. This is a new thing that I started a couple of days ago, but this is helping me to stay on track with my days.
I recently unsubscribed to a ton of emails and I’ve been making more efficient lists (in a notebook rather than on a piece of paper that gets lost. ) It’s been so helpful in managing my time better!
Time blocking and following a routine really help most the time. Keeping different types of to do lists also really helps me from getting overwhelmed and staying productive. Yesterday I was on a bit of a hamster wheel but sometimes Mondays are like that, playing catch up from the weekend.
I definitely need to do some of these, particularly the likes of making lists and saying no more often! I know that I regularly bite off more than I can chew, and apart from actually having to make time to do these tasks, I also worry about how I’ll fit it all in and this too takes up unnecessary time and energy! I didn’t know that block apps are available but these sound useful too! Thanks so much for linking up with #DreamTeam!
Saying no has to be my favourite on the list! I’m pretty good at it nowadays. I think if I was homeschooling too I’d definitely need to be super organised and have plans like this in place!
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We can all do with some ways to have more time. Thanks for the tips Crystal and sharing with us at #overthemoon. Have a great day!
Thanks for sharing this post, I’m going to try some of these out. Jacqui
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Some great tips here. I will have to employ some of these.
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Not having personal social medias is a big time saver for me. If I have them I get sucked into them for hours and start feeling quite miserable about things or people!
Great tips. I definitely need to unsubscribe from a mountain of lists and get more organised.
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Some great tips for time-saving! I think as bloggers,its so easy to get caught up in the day to day grind of admin. I’ve had to scale back on all the blogs I follow. I post twice a week and that’s mostly when I read others’ posts.
This is a great post and was actually a Podcast topic a few months ago. Unsubscribing to emails is definitely a time saver! #ProductReviewParty
I have signed out of social media so I get no notifications, saves a lot of time! thanks for the tips #brilliantblogposts
I can attest to deleting emails that I don’t read any more. I would also add deleting online subscriptions that you don’t use. I have cancelled many product/service subscriptions that I no longer need.
You are so right that we all have the same hours a day to make use of. I like the comment about getting up an hour earlier. I find, as long as I am not late to bed, that getting up an hour earlier seems like I have an extra three hours a day.
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Kathleen
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These are great tips, thank you for sharing! I am usually quite organised myself, but there is a number of areas that could improve, time spent on social media, to name one!
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I do a lot of these things already to gain time in my life. With three kids, sports, and working from home full time on top of blogging, I need all of the time I can get. It’s only going to get more crucial that I manage my time wisely once school is back in session.
It sounds like you have as full of a plate as I do. 🙂 What kind of work from home do you do? (Curious minds, being nosey.)
Thank you for stopping by and commenting. I hope to see you again soon.
Thank you for the suggestions. I’m going to try the Block App!
My time management has been lacking lately because of summer break. But with the girls returning back to school we’ll be returning back to our schedules. And thanks for the tips about unsubscribing from emails, I’ve been getting a lot of emails that I don’t even read.
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