How to Get Organized

 To run any business successfully, you need organization. That is what you need to pursue opportunities and deal with problems as they arise. It is what keeps the business on even keel to achieve its set goals and objectives. Want to get organized? Take these here simple tips.

Prioritize Your Goals

Be sure your goals are attainable, realistic and inspiring. Rank them in order of importance. Take on your most important goals first before others less important. Tackle all down the line in their order of importance. 

Adopt an Online Calendar

Try using Google Calendar which appears to be the most popular online calendar. You can use it by having it linked to your Smartphone or any other devices you use to access the internet. A proper use of online calendar helps to get organized and effectively scheduled even on the go.

Draw up a List of Priorities Daily

It only takes a few minutes at the beginning of each day to get this done. You can make a priority list at the beginning of your business day then consciously adhere to the list in tackling your daily tasks. Sticking with this list helps to avoid distractions thereby saving valuable time.

Focus First on Your Most Important Goals

It is easy to work through your list if you already know which priorities are the most important. With that information, you can tackle your top priority first and your lowest priority last. You get better results that way.

Tidy up Daily when You Close

This is fairly obvious. The tidier you are, the more organized you become. Habitually tidy up before you go home each day. This is because when your work environment is in a mess, your mind will be too.

Tag Assignments for Easy Reference/Referrals

At the end of your business day, you can set aside a few minutes to tag your files and worksheets for easy reference and referrals to subordinates. You then arrange to forward information to coworkers as necessary either through e-mail or voicemail messages. The rest you can file away for keeps or for quick reference for your appointments the next day.

How to Economize Your Time

Here is one credible and practicable way to economize your time. Since the time available to you and all of us is heavily limiting, you can best use it by simple economics the way you use money. Some people choose to call it “time-management” but I choose to call it “time-economics.” The reason is simple. You can manage money because when you run out of money, you can arrange to get more money. You can get more money by going to withdraw from your savings or by borrowing. When you run out of time, it is gone and gone forever. There is no time-lender anywhere in the world where you can go to borrow more time. All you have and are entitled to is only 24 hours a day. The best you can do within the 24 hours therefore is to manage yourself and your affairs within the available time. This is time economics. 

It is safe to assume that you know how to prioritize your activities. That you know how to choose what is urgent and what is important. That said, you may now want to know how you can maximize the use of the limited time available to you for your work. It is also assumed that you do only the things related to your work during working hours. I hope I am right on this assumption because a lot of people use working time to perform many activities not directly related to the work they do. The best way to maximize the use of your working time is to minimize or eliminate time wastage on the things you routinely do at work. Here is how. List all your daily activities and replace “time-wasters” with “time-savers.” Very simple and the results and impact on your productivity can be quite amazing.