How To Get Organized

We are busy people.  We work full-time jobs.  We have families, activities, house work, house maintenance, and errands.  Now we have a part-time business with demands.  Everything you do is important, including the hour or two with a good book or television at the end of the day.  Our objective in time management is not necessarily eliminate time wasters, but to do more in less time.  At least this is what I try to do.

The book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" teaches us that we must do the important things before we do the urgent things.  At least we must attempt to do the important things first.  Because the urgent things we need to do usually need to be done because an important thing wasn't done.  So how do we know what we have to do and what should be done first?  We need to make a list.

A list is written on a piece of paper.  I usually start out with a clean sheet daily and put down the tasks from the previous day that were not done.  Then as I think of things that need to be done, I add them to the list.  I do this because I usually think of new things as I go about my day, and rather than try to do them right at that moment, I add to my list.