But another entrepreneur, in a very similar field, went into her business with attitude that she had something very valuable to sell, that people would rush to buy her service, and that she would begin making money almost immediately. And this is what happened for her!

Look at your own experience: Do you fill time with busywork, when you could actually produce your achievements in much less time? You have to trust yourself enough to let go. If you feel you deserve to have fun and succeed - however you define that - you deserve to have more leisure time.

Folks, "now" is your only reality, and leisure time you take now is only leisure time you can count on having. Further, taking time for leisure provides an incentive to make opportunities for more of it, and time to form a clear vision of what you truly want.

Here are a few ways to create for yourself these energizing leisure experiences. Take a day off and think up a bunch more of your own!

THE UNEXPECTED DAY OFF

Arbitrarily take a day off and "spend" time on yourself. Whatever you have to do, get away from your routine. Pick a day you would never normally be off. See what it feels like to be a member of leisure class for an entire day.

THE BETWEEN-JOBS/PROJECTS VACATION

Changing jobs or starting new entrepreneurial ventures is becoming more norm than exception. The tendency often is to rush right into next job or project or business venture.

Instead, treat yourself. Pretend that it took you an extra month to find new job or line up all ducks for new enterprise.

Enjoy that month as a reward for being so productive. Often self-doubt is only obstacle preventing you from delaying new starting date.

Think of it this way: if you are valuable today, you'll be even more valuable a month from now. And it isn't bad psychology to let your subconscious know you feel prosperous enough to take a whole month off without pay!

THE SABBATICAL

This is a ten-day retreat you take for yourself, with a task in mind. Write down ten positive talents or characteristics you have.

In this article we'll explore 19 ways you can gain leverage on your time. This is actually a real-time case study in using our time well - since this article is too long and has too many ideas to action all at once. How will you act to get leverage from these ideas?

Time is such a strange, strange thing. We talk about "managing time". But we cannot manage time. It just goes on tick-tock, tick-tock, regardless of what we do, or say, or think.

Time's wrong subject of sentence. It is you, and others, and activities and events, you and I really manage - in relation to time. Not time itself.

And time is not something you can save or lose. It is not a thing you have, or ever had. Time is what you live in. And breathe in. Like air.

So to "leverage" time we really manage yourself, and your tasks, and your behavior, and your situations differently - better, smarter, easier, more playfully yes - but differently.

Here, then, are 19 Ways Your Can Leverage Your Time

1. Start at end, not beginning. For maximum time leverage, set yourself big goals. Big goals commit you, and give you clear choices. With these Big Ends in mind, you will know what's important to you, and your job, and your customers. And you can start to define clear decision-making rules: "This is very important. This is less important. This is trivial and unimportant..."

2. With your Big Goals as your base, decide what's really important and what's trivial. And, you can start to say "No!" whenever possible, to meaningless, trivial, mundane, unimportant time-wasting, time-absorbing tasks, activities, projects, jobs, careers, relationships, clients, hobbies, e-mails, voice-mails, paper...

3. Assign pieces of tasks you're not especially good at to anyone you legitimately can.