Time is Money!

I’m on a frugal vacation right now, so posting frequency is much lower than normal. Luckily for me Shane from ShaneHigginbottom.com jumped in with another great guest post showing us all how we can save a little time. Saving time can save money, stress and just give us a little more time for ourselves.

1. Do those things that need to be done fewer times

Some things can be done less often and thats where you can save your time. You have heard that time is money, well we only have so much of it so why waste it doing the same things over and over.
Things that can be done less or things that can be done once instead of twice are those things that will help us save a lot of time. Clean your house once every ten days instead of every 7 days – you can do that, it’s normal and the house won’t get dirty in those three extra days.
Make a work report every six week not every four weeks, if possible.
Keep meetings to inform yourself on ongoing projects twice a month not every week. And the list of things that can be done fewer times can go on forever.

2. Have a friendly competition with yourself!

Set the clock and race to finish an activity by a certain hour. Focus, get rid of anything distracting you and work more efficiently.

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3. Get more out of 15 minutes.

You’d be surprised how much you can get done in fifteen minutes.
Can you find 15 minutes a day that you could use more efficiently? Is there lost time in your activities? Or maybe a less important activity you can give up on? If you manage to save 15 minutes every day, you will win in fact 91 hours every year!

4. Do a list of little activities that don’t take you more than a couple of minutes.

Of course, we usually want to deal with the important problems first. But when we feel tired, stressed, in a bad mood, we find it hard to concentrate and we lose our time forcing ourselves. A list of simple activities will help you finalize something and push up your productivity. And obviously it is always better to know you did something, even is it is small, than to realize you haven’t even started anything.

5. Work on a certain project over a certain period of time.

Rather than to try and finalize an activity at once, it is better to tell yourself: ” I will work on this for 15 minutes and see how much I can get done during this interval”. Focus and try to do all you can during those 15 minutes. This is an excellent advice to solve problems or projects you avoided lately.

Thanks Shane, this is a great list and I definitely need to take some advice from here!

Check out Shane’s last guest post: Shaners Quick Guide to Living Cheap - 20 Frugal Tips

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