What is one of the least-mastered but most-desired skills in our fast-paced modern world? If you answered time management, you would be correct. It is absolutely critical component to becoming successful and living your most fabulous life ever! Here are 3 simple tips to increase your productivity and DOUBLE your time management ability:   First, eliminate time wasters in your life. You know what these are but just in case, time wasters are things that interrupt you and you spend time doing, but you wouldn’t have chosen to do them given the choice. Mindless web surfing, playing Facebook games, perusing gossip blogs (ok maybe only I am guilty of that one!)  are all examples of time wasters.  Here some other examples that must be if not eliminated then controlled: 

·         Email---If you are spending more than 30 minutes per day on email (unless that is your business) you are spending too much! Even if it is your business, set specific time blocks to deal with emails. Work on nothing but email during those blocks. This will not only eliminating time wasting but also make you much more productive.

·         Telephone---If you answer the phone live more than 5 times per day during your productive time (work, work at home, etc.) you are sacrificing time management and efficiency.  When you answer the phone, you interrupt your current productive flow and this kills your productivity. Do the same thing with your phone as you did with email, unless you are a doctor or technical support agent whose phone calls are critical.

·         Television---This must be limited for you to achieve ultimate control over your time.  My recommendation is 30 minutes per day, especially if you are not getting all the things done you need or want to.

Another essential part to successful time management is to make a list of what is genuinely important in your life and just start doing those things. on your list.  One of the keys to time management is prioritization---you absolutely must know what you want to accomplish and then go do it.  Today’s world has too many distractions and when you allow those distractions to become priority, you sacrifice time management.  Follow these steps:

·         Make of list of what you want to accomplish

·         Set time frames for accomplishing each item

·         Organize each item in order of importance

·         Create a game plan for achieving each of your goals in its respective time frame

Most importantly, begin to focus on positively managing your time throughout the course of the day.  As you consistently focus eliminating time wasters and being productive, you will notice more ways that are better for you specifically. Once you have determined your goals and your priorities, start focusing on simply getting those things done.  If something isn’t on your goals list for this week—don’t do it until all your goals are done.  When you prioritize every interruption that occurs and put your goals last, you will not accomplish your goals.  Instead, you will be a slave (as you probably are now) to interruptions and probably feel like you never accomplish enough.