Timesaving is Lifesaving

Timesaving is life saving, because it will not only increase the quanity of time in your day but add to the quality of time in your life. Proverbs 21: 5 says, “The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty.”

• What hopes, dreams, and plans have you pushed aside because busyness rules the day?
• What lifelong dreams could you fulfill if you discovered an extra two hours every day?

For the next few weeks, we will examine the top ten timesaving tips so that you can discover how to use time as your ultimate tool to living well.

First Things First

Research shows most people spend the first three hours of every work day doing small, necessary, but relatively mindless things. Counter intuitively, the most foundational principle of time management is to do, First Things First.

When you are fresh, begin with the most important one or two things BEFORE you even check your email.

• At work, do the most difficult task with the highest payoff.
• At home, work on the task you like least and enjoy the rest of the weekend.
• In your meetings, address the most important topic at the top before people begin to file out.

You will accomplish more, enjoy the whole day, do better work, have more confidence, and feel great.

Limit Interruptions

Interruptions are damaging to your productivity. Every time you allow an interruption in your work, it costs you six minutes in addition to the time actually spent. Thus, if you have just three 10-minute unexpected conversations in one morning, you will lose 48 minutes!

Take these steps during your First Things First time each morning:

• Spend time with God first.
• Eliminate audible distractions such as the phone and email alert.
• Don’t socialize until later in the day.
• Turn off your computer monitor.

Continue to follow our Top Ten Timesaving Tips because as Charles Hummel says, “Nothing substitutes for knowing that this day, this hour, in this place we are doing the will of the Father.”