Time Wasters

Written by Joe Cirillo


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Time is life’s biggest and richest resource, available to all of us daily. It is what we do with it that is important. So often our days are shortened and muddled byrepparttar numerous time wasters that we don’t realize are there.

Managing your time more effectively is easy once you’ve identified your own time wasters. With this accomplished, you will have takenrepparttar 101266 first step to eliminating those time wasters and getting onrepparttar 101267 path to rewarding yourself with a precious gift –repparttar 101268 two hours you have been losing every day.

Start slowly and remember, you gotta have fun doing it; so look out time wasters – this is your time!!

It’s Your Time is available in bookstores across the nation or on Cirillo’s Web site: http://www.joecirillo.com. Cirillo has a long list a happy customers that say his methods will help you organize everything and gain up to two hours a day. Joe Cirillo lives in Sun Valley, Idaho where he is currently releasing his second book The Italian Club, Original family recipes brought over from Naples, Italy.


A CRUISE SHIP MOMENT

Written by Joe Cirillo


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Your Home

The answer is in your home, where your day begins and ends. Starting with your bedroom. As simple as it sounds, an unmade bed is clutter. If you launch your day in a cluttered room, your entire day will feel cluttered and unclear. Your bedroom should be a tranquil place, like your mind onrepparttar cruise ship. When your bedroom, closet, bathroom and dresser drawers are organized, you have achievedrepparttar 101265 first step in taking control of your time. This personal space isrepparttar 101266 model and setsrepparttar 101267 tone to organize and manage your home and workplace. When you have accomplished this you are TIME READY. Ready, organized, and prepared to take advantage of opportunities. There is no greater feeling than returning to an organized space atrepparttar 101268 end of each day, one that is calm and relaxing, and gives you that cruise-ship moment.

Planning and Storing Time When your home and workplace are organized you are ready to plan. Failing to plan is planning to fail. TIME AWARENESS – a skill that evolves from managing your time. Being aware of what you can realistically accomplish in one hour or one day. A task list is a time-management tool. A daily task list is like a road map. Driving without one in unfamiliar territory causes time loss. The result of planning and managing your daily task is time control, having time on your side. When you do this you have extra time,repparttar 101269 two hours of wasted time before you had time under control.

Productive Hours

We all have in us what I call TIME EFFICIENCY. These arerepparttar 101270 peak periods in our morning, afternoon, or evening. When you discover this source—your peak period— you will find that your mind and body will perform with more clarity, and that your coordination and energy level will feel like that of an athlete. Plan your personal and work activities during these hours. If you have a difficult decision to make, a challenging meeting, a document, presentation to create or an important conversation on personal matters, do them when you are at your best and you will experiencerepparttar 101271 pleasure of success and relief. This use of your most productive hours will provide you with additional confidence to make your rhythm work inrepparttar 101272 speed around you.

Procrastination

How does procrastination play a roll in organizing and taking control of time? It delays progress. Why does it exist? Fear. Putting things off because they are too difficult, too overwhelming. Why does this happen? Mostly because of overload, taking on too much, resulting in too many pending and incomplete tasks. Procrastination contributes to time loss. A good way to manage procrastination is by prioritizing. When you have identified your most productive hours of your day, schedule challenging tasks in that period.

Clutter

Let’s talk more about clutter. It’s everywhere. Clutter can take control of your life. It mutates, changes and appears differently. It exists in your fridge, pantry, closets, drawers, bathrooms, purse, wallet, briefcase, pockets, file folders, desk, and car. It can have an exhausting effect. Clutter causes VISUAL OVERLOAD. It's a mind clogger. How do you control it? By stopping it beforerepparttar 101273 assault. Simple examples of daily infiltrators arerepparttar 101274 mail, magazines, newspapers, packages, shopping bags, groceries, grocery bags, cleaning, new clothes, athletic items, and toys. The only way to fend offrepparttar 101275 onslaught is to stop it upon entry. Go onrepparttar 101276 offensive. Mail that has built-in categories is easy to deal with—catalogs, junk mail, magazines, important. If you pick up your mail atrepparttar 101277 post office, sort it there. Saves time and stops clutter building. If it is delivered to your home, sort it upon entry. Evaluaterepparttar 101278 magazines you really read, not what you think you like or may read. Magazines are an expense. If you add up your annual subscription fees, which you probably don't even know, they could be between $600.00 and $1000.00. Magazines, junk mail, catalogs, and newspapers arerepparttar 101279 biggest clutter builders. If you are not buying fromrepparttar 101280 catalog companies, call them and ask for your name to be removed from their list. If you are not reading your daily newspapers, you don't need them. If you find that you are keeping several magazines partially read, it means that your interest level is not high enough. If you don't have a recycling area to collect what has been read, you need one.

Clarity andrepparttar 101281 Clear Mind

When you have your life organized, you have clarity, which allows your mind to roam free and think thoughts other than: “Now where did I leave that remote?” By clearingrepparttar 101282 clutter, you’re also freeingrepparttar 101283 mind, relieving stress andrepparttar 101284 things that add to our frustrations. Suddenly your mind is clear ofrepparttar 101285 negative thinking “Boy this house is a mess.” And in its place are more serene thoughts, those cruise ship moments that, byrepparttar 101286 way, can add up to a full cruise.

Happy Sailing!



It’s Your Time is available in bookstores across the nation or on Cirillo’s Web site: http://www.joecirillo.com. Cirillo has a long list a happy customers that say his methods will help you organize everything and gain up to two hours a day. Joe Cirillo lives in Sun Valley, Idaho where he is currently releasing his second book The Italian Club, Original family recipes brought over from Naples, Italy.


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