When it comes to effective time management, start making a list of your high payoff activities you would like to put in your calendar for the next week or few weeks. Put them in your calendar and then honor that time. What do you want to accomplish to feel like you are making progress on the achievement of your goals?

After you have made your list, determine how much time each task will take, and then put each activity in your calendar. Now look at your schedule.

· Are the business activities that have the most time allotted your highest payoff activities?

· How much time do you spend or want to spend on tasks that don’t produce the results you really want? Could those tasks be delegated and taken off your calendar?

· How much time do you have for your spouse or significant other, your family, your friends, your health and fitness, and travel?

How does it feel to put all your activities down in a calendar and see where you spend your time? If you would like your days to be different, then change your schedule. Your calendar should be designed to have the highest possible impact on you achieving your professional and personal goals.

If you are like many people, you will quickly realize that you don’t have enough time in the day to time block everything you want and need to get done. This is why you must prioritize your activities.

To download my complimentary Time Log Exercise to help you be even more time efficient, so you are in a higher probability position to achieve your goals, go to: https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/time-log/. Simple instructions come with the sample document to help you know how to complete the time log.

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Anne Bachrach

The Accountability Coach™

To be as efficient as possible, I suggest scheduling recurring event time blocks in your calendar as far in advance as possible, as much as you can. For example, I work with a personal trainer 3 days a week. It is the same three days and at the same time each week, assuming I’m in town. I schedule this for the entire year. I can always change it if I need to, but the time is blocked for my personal trainer time for 12 months out.

You can always schedule a recurring time block for when you would like to do client acquisition or revenue generation work, and client service, for example. Scheduling recurring events as much as possible will save you time with how you want to spend your days and weeks.

To download my complimentary Time Log Exercise to help you be even more time efficient, so you are in a higher probability position to achieve your goals, go to: https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/time-log/. Simple instructions come with the exercise to help you know how to complete the time log.

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I’m the author of many books, including, Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, The Guide to Stopping Procrastination, The Power of Visualization, My Gratitude Journal, the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, and The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more.

Aim for what you want each and every day!

Anne Bachrach

The Accountability Coach™

The important part of time management is first to put all your activities in the calendar and then HONOR the calendar. In other words, do what it says to do, when it says to do it. For some, this is the hardest part to do. They let too many distractions or other things get in their way of honoring their calendar and the time blocks. For many, working out is the first activity that gets bumped way too often. The best solution for this is to figure out a time when it works best for you to exercise and scheduling meeting a personal trainer or friend at the gym. Or, join an online program like the www.absdietonline.com, www.losesit.com, www.sparkpeople.com, or any number of online programs. There are many online programs to choose from today. Think of the benefit to you and your family when you are healthy.

Other activities like family and personal time can get overlooked, so be sure to add it to your calendar and honor it. Activities like ‘date night,’ time with your children, massages, getting your car washed, dance lessons, donating blood, etc. should be in your calendar. Think about all the things that you do and would like to do over the year, and how you could schedule them in your calendar, so they actually occur.

To download my complimentary Time Log Exercise to help you be even more time efficient, so you are in a higher probability position to achieve your goals, go to: https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/time-log/. Simple instructions come with the sample document to help you know how to complete the time log.

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I’m the author of many books, including, Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, The Guide to Stopping Procrastination, The Power of Visualization, My Gratitude Journal, the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, and The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more.

Aim for what you want each and every day!

Anne Bachrach

The Accountability Coach™

What are your highest payoff activities you can do to achieve your goals in the timeframe you have set? You may want to make sure you spend more of your time on these activities versus other lower payoff activities. Work on those activities that produce the results you want and not the ones that might be easier to do, or more fun, or don’t cause you to go outside your comfort zone.

You may go so far, while at work, to say that you only take calls from clients during certain times in order to maximize your efficiency. To honor your calendar, ask them if it would be okay to call them back within 24 hours – or ideally schedule a time when you can speak to them, so you don’t play phone tag (that is a big waste of time). Color-coding your activities can also help for a “quick-at-a-glance” reminder of what your priorities are.

To download my complimentary Time Log Exercise to help you be even more time efficient, so you are in a higher probability position to achieve your goals, go to: https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/time-log/. Simple instructions come with the sample document to help you know how to complete the time log.

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I’m the author of many books, including, Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, The Guide to Stopping Procrastination, The Power of Visualization, My Gratitude Journal, the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, and The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more.

Aim for what you want each and every day!

Anne Bachrach

The Accountability Coach™

Effective time management allows you to identify similar activities that can be completed together. If you have several activities that are the same type of activity, do them all at the same time. For example, you would do certain types of calls all at the same time (like revenue generation), conduct potential client discovery meetings, conduct annual meetings with clients, etc.

For lower-payoff activities like administrative duties, specify during certain times in the day they will be completed. When you don’t continually have to change from one type of an activity to a totally different kind of activity, while working on the activities required to achieve your goals, you will save a lot of time and mental energy.

To download my complimentary Time Log Exercise to help you be even more time efficient, so you are in a higher probability position to achieve your goals, go to: https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/time-log/. Simple instructions come with the exercise to help you know how to complete the time log.

Are you ready to take your business to the next level? Get the proven strategies and resources you need for massive success. Subscribe to my blog now by going to https://accountabilitycoach.com/blog and start transforming your business today!

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I’m the author of many books, including, Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, The Guide to Stopping Procrastination, The Power of Visualization, My Gratitude Journal, the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, and The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more.

Aim for what you want each and every day!

Anne Bachrach

The Accountability Coach™

When you are time blocking your calendar, you want to make sure to include buffer time for something that has a deadline. Say you have to submit a proposal to a prospective client by a certain date. In order to have it done, you determine approximately how much time you think it will take to create the proposal and then add a bit of time to that total. You then give yourself a deadline for completion that is 2 or 3 days before the actual ‘drop dead’ deadline.

This means that if you have issues and unforeseen things that occur, you still will complete it by the actual deadline date. This works well when you have to rely on others to help you get something done. If you get it done early, all the better for you and what impression it will make with the prospective client.

You may have to go through trial and error on a schedule until you find optimal results. Some people are early birds and will tackle certain tasks first thing, while others will find they are more effective in the afternoon. Just be sure to schedule tasks when they can be achieved with the greatest efficiency and outcome.

To download my complimentary Time Log Exercise to help you be even more time efficient, so you are in a higher probability position to achieve your goals, go to: https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/time-log/. Simple instructions come with the exercise to help you know how to complete the time log.

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I’m the author of many books, including, Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, The Guide to Stopping Procrastination, The Power of Visualization, My Gratitude Journal, the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, and The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more.

Aim for what you want each and every day!

Anne Bachrach

The Accountability Coach™

One of the success principles of any successful business person is effective time management. In order to create your ideal business and life, you must learn to schedule EVERYTHING (like time for breakfast and lunch, drive time, exercise time, family time, etc.) and be extremely effective at time management. If you want to get things done, scheduling time to do them will give you the highest probably of actually doing them.

When you begin to time block activities, take a look at everything you have to do and how long you think it will take to get each one done, and then add “cushion” time to each activity. I haven’t been able to come up with a rule of them for how much extra time should be given to each activity. It is dependent on you and the activity. You may have to explore in the beginning to figure out what works best for you based on how well you estimated the initial time.

If you actually do finish before the time you allotted, you have the gift of time to move on to the next activity. In time, you will become better at how much time you actually need for each activity.

To download my complimentary Time Log Exercise to help you be even more time efficient, so you are in a higher probability position to achieve your goals, go to: https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/time-log/. Simple instructions come with the exercise to help you know how to complete the time log.

Are you ready to take your business to the next level? Get the proven strategies and resources you need for massive success. Subscribe to my blog now by going to https://accountabilitycoach.com/blog and start transforming your business today!

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I’m the author of many books, including, Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, The Guide to Stopping Procrastination, The Power of Visualization, My Gratitude Journal, the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, and The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more.

Aim for what you want each and every day!

Anne Bachrach

The Accountability Coach™

Accountability is about getting things done -- lots of things, and the right things -- on time, so you can accelerate your results and create the kind of business and life you truly want. Creating a better quality of life and increasing both personal and professional success comes down to a simple starting point – are you coachable?

Do you really want to achieve your goals or are they just a dream or nice to have?

Each year, people spend thousands of dollars on books, personal development courses, seminars and coaching in hopes of finding the ‘silver bullet,’ the magic that will propel them to where they want to be, personally and professionally, yet only few actually see real results. If you find there is a gap between what you want and your current reality, accountability coaching will help you bridge that gap.

Joining a mastermind, accountability group, or doing 1 to 1 coaching can be vital to your success because the #1 reason that stops people from getting what they really want is lack of Accountability. As a member of a mastermind, accountability group, or having a 1:1 coach, you will be surrounded by like-minded individual(s) who can hold you accountable for your actions or non-actions. To help you with guidelines of various groups to help you determine what might be the best fit for you, go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching/ and review the ideas under the Coaching Options tab to help you get started. You will always need help in evolving and improving your life and business, and accountability is the only way to achieve your goals in the time frame you desire. If you have more questions, you can always reach out to schedule a call with me. I’m here to help you in any way that I can.

Are you ready to take your business to the next level? Get the proven strategies and resources you need for massive success. Subscribe to my blog now by going to https://accountabilitycoach.com/blog and start transforming your business today!

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I’m the author of many books, including, Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, The Guide to Stopping Procrastination, The Power of Visualization, My Gratitude Journal, the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, and The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more.

Aim for what you want each and every day!

Anne Bachrach

The Accountability Coach™