Get More Time in Your Life.

Wouldn’t you like extra hours each day to accomplish all you need to do?  Maggie Bedrosian, in the Bottom Line Newsletter, offers the following 10 tips to get more time in your life:

1. Slow Down!  Take time to do things right the first time, and enjoy the time you saved by not having to them over.
2. Say No! Just because someone asks you to do something that’s important to them, it doesn’t have to be on your list of priorities.
3. Define Your Purpose.  Know where you are going and why.  You tend to have more time and energy to accomplish what you really want to do.
4. Delegate.  Be willing to let others bring their ideas and methods into the task, and accept the fact that things may be done differently than you would have done them.
5. Eliminate the little things by doing them.  If you do all the little things each day, they won’t become big things that will take longer to accomplish. 
6. Simplify.  Don’t make your life more complicated than it has to be.  Organize your desk before you leave work; choose your clothes before bedtime, etc. so you won’t be sidetracked by this decision the next day.
7. Know when to hire help.  Not every task you do yourself is a time-saver.  Is there a do-it-yourself project that’s taking up too much of your valuable time?  Could you better hire someone to do it more efficiently?
8. Exercise and energize!  It is worth the time you take!  Exercise give you more energy, alertness, stamina, and “It puts more life in your years and more years in your life!”
9. Relax!  Recharge your mind by closing your eyes, take a few deep breaths, and think happy soothing thoughts…pray!
10. Prioritize your time!  You really will have more time to do what you want if you first take time to decide what is important for you to do.