3) Exercise Self-Discipline

The best time management system in world is worthless if we don't exercise self-discipline.

It's so easy to log on to Net, just planning to "check your email," and before you know it, get distracted by other things and end up spending much more time on things we hadn't planned, and wonder where time went.

I know, I know: It's easier said than done, but exercising self-discipline will help us stay focused and avoid wasting time or getting distracted on less important activities. If you can stay focused on most important tasks (which you've identified by setting goals and prioritizing your To-Do list), you'll see greater results from your time and effort.

4) Automate Where Possible

I have written much more on this topic than limited space in this article allows, but let me mention a few tools that aren't new to online marketers, but whose time-saving value is often overlooked:

*Autoresponders

Autoresponders are very useful tools for automatically filling your prospects' requests for information on your products and services, non-stop, 24 hrs of every day of year.

*Email Filters

The "filters" feature of good email programs such as Pegasus and Eudora Pro make automation of many email activities a snap. If you're not using them, you don't know what you're missing.

~ Pegasus: http://www.pmail.com/

~ Eudora Pro: http://www.eudora.com

5) Periodically Analyze Your Business

In our quest for more value from time we spend in our online businesses, it helps to stand back and periodically analyze which activities have been working - and which haven't.

From there, we can give more attention to expanding what's been working, and tweak, change, or eliminate what hasn't. We can thus progressively see more profitable results from time spent online.

Conclusion

If you want to get maximum benefit from limited time you have to accomplish things in your online business, or any other area of life, you must manage your time well.

When you do, you'll achieve more, and you'll look back on your work with satisfaction of knowing that you got most important things done, instead of looking back with regret.

As Benjamin Franklin said: "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's stuff life is made of."

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4. Services to simplify. You can accomplish more professionally when you have help with some of little things in life. This would include housekeeper, travel agent, photographer, seamstress, etc.

5. Take REALLY good care of yourself. And for those days when you know you need pampering it is good to have names of self-care professionals handy including a skin care specialist, personal trainer, manicurist, spiritual advisor, image consultant, etc.

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