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Time management expert Juli Shulem, author of the book, Home-Based Business Mom…

Secondly would be to prioritize items on your list in the order of importance. You have to be able to look at your list and say to yourself if nothing else gets done today but one thing, which must it, be? That needs to be the item that gets done. Because we typically tend to go to the quick, easy, fun, fast items. "Oh I'll just make this call real quick because I like this person or I want to get this done and I can just check it off my list…" The thing is, it rarely is the item that is the most important. So it's important to prioritize carefully.

And when you're scheduling, Juli says remember things always take longer than you think they will.

Don't schedule anything for less than 10 minutes. Because no matter what it is, even if it's the quickest phone call, it could end up taking 10 minutes. Because if you end up leaving a message for someone and they call you back and they leave a message for you. By the time you've played phone tag a couple of times back and forth, there's your 10 minutes. So nothing takes less than 10 minutes. And what I tell people is always over estimate the amount of time you think it's going to take you to do something by 50%. So if you think it's going to take you a half hour give yourself forty-five minutes.

At somethingyoushouldknow.net I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.