Work to your own timetable!

Trouble managing your time? Difficulties getting things done? You need this. This is TIME MANAGEMENT 101.

These two simple steps will improve your quality of life, make you more beautiful, funnier and more popular.

You, today:

1. Can’t prioritise properly
2. Don’t finish things
3. Bad timekeeping
4. Overwhelmed by your to-do list which seems to never end
5. Poor personal hygiene and a slightly dodgy diet as a result of points 1-4

You, tomorrow:

1. On top of your shorter, improved to-do list
2. Know exactly where you are and where you need to be
3. Always finish what you start
4. Have loads of free time
5. Swan around town like a louche aristocrat, perfect hair, slightly tipsy and a gaggle of admirers clinging to your every word

HOW? Like this:

Time Management Basics Step 1: Do less.

Don’t do stuff for the sake of it. Trim, prune, cut back, decimate, CHOP.

Fifty percent of the stuff you do doesn’t need to be done. Do you NEED to go shopping for a NEW STUFF when you should really be GETTING RID OF STUFF? You already own too many shoes. Half the shit in your kitchen cupboards is perfectly edible but hasn’t been touched in weeks. You never even got round to opening the last eighteen books you bought, so don’t go on a book-buying trip.

What about that to-do list you’re going to write? Do you need to write it? Or will you just ignore it like the last one? Either do what you’re going to do, or don’t do it. Don’t plan and plan and plan. Just do it.

You don’t need to take on whatever you’re taking on. You only THINK you need to do what you’re about to do.

BANG! Fifty percent of your day reclaimed.

Time Management Basics Step 2: Take longer over things.

Yes! OK, revelation coming:

MOST DEADLINES DON’T MATTER.

See that thing you need to do? Put it off until tomorrow. What’s the worst that can happen?

You:

Oh golly, I really need to get five blog posts up every week or the world will fall apart!

Me:

I’ll do my next blog post when it suits me, mmkay?

Now, it’s not OK to let people down, so don’t promise what you can’t deliver. But the less you promise, the more time you win, the more you deliver.

BANG number two. You now have more time for personal hygiene and going to the gym.

You rock.