Where Does All Your Time Go?

At the beginning of another new year it's a good idea to review our use of time. It's easy to slip into bad habits, to allow ourselves to be distracted and to focus on what we enjoy most rather than on tasks with high priority.

A great way of getting to grips with managing your time is to begin by analysing how you spend it now.

I use a technique know as "Activity Analysis" with my own added twist..

Create a new Twitter account and change the settings to make it private. Then, all you need to do is make a tweet every 15 minutes that describes exactly what you are doing at that specific time.

If you want to get sophisticated, you can add #hashtags to organise your tasks into categories.

After at least a week, review all your tweets and you'll begin to see a picture of where your time goes.

Then you can eliminate those things that are not taking you towards achieving your goals and spend more time on the important tasks.