Are you one of those people that are forever leaving things to the last minute, forgetting things or always fighting against the clock?

These 3 tips if followed will enable you to be more organised by knowing when things are going to happen, know how you spend your time and make things more automated.

1) Diary/Calendar

Do you have a paper diary, a diary on your PC, a diary on your phone and a diary in your work bag?

The first tip is consolidate all your different diaries in to one.

it doesn’t matter which version you choose to be ‘the version’ but only having one helps you concentrate on what is happening and leaves out the pressure of updating 3,4 or 5 different documents and having to read them all because it is odds on the one time you don’t you will end up missing an important event or double booking yourself and letting someone down.

2) Time Yourself

Always wondering what you do all day? Not sure how long you have for lunch?

Start timing yourself. As well as filling out a timesheet for your customers make sure you fill out one for yourself of everything you have done in a day.

Then after a week or month have a look at your timesheet and you will soon see the blackspots where you are wasting time such as find out that ‘about half an hour’ you have for lunch is actually 2 hours long or the ‘I always start at 9am’ is actually ‘I always start at 9:20.

A good way to focus the mind.

Why not take the HWA Timesheet Challenge:- https://helpwithadmin.com/timesheetchallenge/

3) Have a routine
If you have a routine, you are more likely to get things done, people know where you are and what you are likely to be doing so they know if they can disturb you. If you have a routine, you are less likely to get distracted doing things that are not on the list or are for doing later in the day.
A routine is also good for memory retention of how to do a task and of what is coming up. If you do something often you are more likely to remember how to do it and if one of your tasks is to read your diary if you do it often you the dates and events are more likely to stick in your memory.