When you realize that time is finite and that there really might not be some future distant tomorrow, you might start being more ruthless with the time you’ve got. Follow these tips to make time management so much easier.

🔶 Just Say No The biggest factor in being ruthless with your time is learning to say no. No is a complete sentence is the best lesson I’ve ever learned. It freed me from doing so much shit I hated! If you really do not want to do something, you must say no. There is no sin in saying no. The only reason you feel guilty about the word is that your mother taught you saying no was wrong. It’s time to realize that you are a grown ass women and you can now say no.

🔶Get Up on Time  This is a hard one for many but it doesn’t have to be hard as you think. Trust me I have an elaborate snooze squeeze and always need to factor in getting in at least one cup of coffee.

I work from home most days and it’s really easy to roll over cause my boss (me isn’t going to dock me for being late). Set a time that will you will get up each and every day. I work out most mornings so I’m up and out most days by [5:30]. No.. I don’t do this on weekend. I’m lucky if I can sleep until 8am on weekends.

🔶Try to Be Early  This one is such a challenge for me. In my professional life, I can be on time, but in my personal life I’m always trying to push the envelope.

When I push the envelope and there is traffic I stress out. I’m been really work to change this in my life. I’m always looking for ways to eliminate unnecessary urgency from my life, which in turn causes stress and can cause problems with time management. This way if something does happen out of the ordinary, I will still have time to meet a deadline and be on time.

🔶Turn Off Technology Anyone else feel me. I’ve made my mission to try off my phone at 9:30pm. I’ve found myself endless scrolling and then boom it’s 11pm.  Trust me I know how important your phone is, my phone is my businesses’ life blood. But seriously,the one very thing that is supposed to make our time more productive can have the opposite effect too. Schedule your tech time. Turn them off. You’ll gain so much more time. That includes your Netflixing and chillin’, too.

🔶 Understand Your Internal Clock We all have our own internal time clock. it’s important not to fight against that and be aware of what it is. Some people are early risers and some people are night owls and others are in between. It’s important for you to determine for yourself what your own internal clock is and then work with it.

🔶 Make Shorter To Lists I was the queen of the long to do list. Each and everyday I felt like I wasn’t accomplishing a damn thing. Then a mentor of mine shared with me that I should narrow my to do list down to 3 things. Once I get those 3 things done I could decide if I wanted to do more or be done for the day.

🔶 Calendar Each week I set my schedule for workouts, hours I will work on a particular project and when I will have down time. By doing this it keeps me from blowing myself off.  It also helps me stay on task and makes it much easier to say no to things that don’t fit into the proper bucket

Finally, don’t be too hard on yourself in terms of the hours you schedule yourself to work. Yes, be ruthless about the schedule, but also schedule in fun time. We aren’t designed to work 20 hours a day. Go ahead, schedule 8 to 10 hours a day of work. But, in between, schedule in breaks. Time with friends, family and spouses during any given work day is important too. Also, remember to schedule in breaks like weekends and vacations. If you do that, it’ll be so much easier to be ruthless with time and stick to your schedule normally.

Which one these tips do you think you can start to use immediately’

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You have a job that you may work more than full time and you have other responsibilities that need to be taken care of at home can leave you with little time to yourself at all, much less time you might want to spend investing in a workout. The key comes from realizing that it doesn’t take an hour of devoted time to fit a workout into your average day. In fact, all it really takes is a little creative planning in advance.

The easiest way to get exercise without taking time out of your day is to fit it in among the things you already planned on doing that day. If you’ve got work to do outside in the yard or somewhere to go nearby, turn it into a fun exercise. Do stretches, jog in place, push ups, jumping jacks.! If you know you have to spend time out of the house, take a little extra time and park in the back of the lot then jog into the store. Feel like that may leave you a little to sweaty’ Fast walk 3 space then regular walk the next 3 and so forth until you get to the end of the parking lot. Take your little bits of exercise when and where you can find them, even if it’s spontaneous! Even if you’re just at work you can get in a little bit of stretching and fitness during breaks or while you’re at your desk.

Another important way you can find quick fitness is to utilize high impact workouts that are specifically designed for people with only a little time. Here are 10 for you to try out right now. They can be done anywhere without little to no equipment. Fitness doesn’t have to be something that you spend a huge part of your day on if you just take the time to work little bits of it into everything you do!

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