Where Are Your Time Management Blind Spots?

What’s the most important resource you have — as an entrepreneur, a manager, a business leader, or simply as a person? Simple: It’s your time. That’s the one thing you can never get more of, the one thing that’s more precious to you than anything else. And if you really want to be successful, the trick is to use your time well, investing it only in things that add value to your business.

Most professionals tend to think they do a decent job of that, and perhaps you do. We all have our time management blind spots, though. We all have those areas where our time management skills break down, and we don’t really even realize it.

Coming to understand where you’re wasting your time — or perhaps simply not making as much of it as you could — is a key skill for any professional. It will take some thought, some analysis, some introspection, and perhaps some changed habits — but the benefits can be major!

It all starts by being honest with yourself: Where and how could you be doing better with time management?

• For a lot of professionals, the chief time waste culprit is a lack of planning. What are you going to focus on today? What are your goals? What are your priorities? Successful people sit down and draft a road map at the start of each day; this may sound at first like a waste of time, but actually…