How to manage my time better

Time management and prioritisation: getting the important stuff done.

Every business owner I have ever worked with feels stressed because there are always more things to do than there is time in the day. Time is the most precious and valuable resource in your business, your time. Many other resources in your business are valuable too, but you have the option to buy, borrow, beg, hire or steal more of them, but your time is truly limited and what’s more the most important things that need to be done for the long term well-being and development of your business are things that can only be done by you.

How to manage your time better is a key strategy towards escaping the overwhelm in business. Time management is also one of the keys to becoming a better leader. How to get unstuck and become a better leader, are two of the 7 Big Questions about building a beautiful business and life.

Below is a collection of articles on this site that may help you start to think differently about how to get the important stuff done in your business.

The most useful articles about time and time management on this site:

  • Time Management, Procrastination and Laziness

    Time Management, Procrastination and Laziness

    Procrastination is a curse. Most of us struggle with being distracted from our tasks. Here are some ways past the hurdles that might help you.Read more Time Management, Procrastination and Laziness ›

  • Productivity Tips: How To Get The Important Stuff Done In Your Business

    Productivity Tips: How To Get The Important Stuff Done In Your Business

    Productivity, time management. Business owners often feel that life would be better if only they learnt how to use their time more efficiently.Read more Productivity Tips: How To Get The Important Stuff Done In Your Business ›

  • Highly Chilled Habit #4: Be Thrifty With Your Time

    Highly Chilled Habit #4: Be Thrifty With Your Time

    Time is the most valuable and rare commodity in your business. Time management skills are therefore the most valuable skills any business owner must learnRead more Highly Chilled Habit #4: Be Thrifty With Your Time ›

  • The Ten Priorities; Priority #2: Doing Nothing

    The Ten Priorities; Priority #2: Doing Nothing

    Thinking, doing No-Thing in other words is sometimes the most effective way forward to building a beautiful business, Priority #2Read more The Ten Priorities; Priority #2: Doing Nothing ›

  • The Ten Priorities; Priority #1: Yourself

    The Ten Priorities; Priority #1: Yourself

    You are the most valuable resource and asset of your business, Your time and your braincells and your health. Looking after yourself first is priority #1Read more The Ten Priorities; Priority #1: Yourself ›

  • Business owners are all lazy slobs; Time management #1

    Business owners are all lazy slobs; Time management #1

    Time management is a constant challenge for business owners. We berate ourselves for procrastination. Here’s different approach that helps.Read more Business owners are all lazy slobs; Time management #1 ›

  • Laziness, procrastination and time wasting; Time management #2

    Laziness, procrastination and time wasting; Time management #2

    Time management is a perennial challenge for business owners. How to overcome some of the procrastination hurdles we all face.Read more Laziness, procrastination and time wasting; Time management #2 ›

  • Time Management for business owners

    Time Management for business owners

    How do you become less of a procrastinator and more efficient in small business. How to become a time management ninja.Read more Time Management for business owners ›

  • 1001 Bedtime stories: The Seduction of the Hammer

    1001 Bedtime stories: The Seduction of the Hammer

    Andrew The Builder learns to resist “The Seduction of the Hammer”, and finds time to take his son to soccer training againRead more 1001 Bedtime stories: The Seduction of the Hammer ›