How to Have More Time

Have you ever wished you had more hours in your day? If there were just a few more hours you could get so much more accomplished. Since that isn’t possible, why not try to find ways to save some of the time you already have? Here are some ways to carve out more time in your day:

• Streamline Your Life

If you want more time, try streamlining your life, meaning start combining the things you can do at the same time. This makes you day run more efficiently and uses your time the most effectively.

• Delegate Tasks

The number of tasks they have to complete each day overwhelms many people, when the real problem is their inability to delegate some of the work to other people. Lighten your load by letting someone else with more free time do some of the work. Stop micromanaging once you’ve delegated the tasks as well. Delegate and then let go.

• Saying Yes and No Effectively

Learning to say “no” tactfully and without feeling guilty afterwards is necessary if you want to have more time. That’s not so say that you should say “no” to everything, you should just start saying “yes” more selectively. This simple act is not only time-saving, it is also empowering and will make others have more respect for your time.

• Try Tracking Your Activities

Want to know exactly where you are wasting time and how much time you’re wasting? Start tracking your activities! This will help you eliminate behaviors that are completely a waste of time.

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 What is your passion in life? What feels less like work and more like play? Have you always wanted to turn your passion into your job? It doesn’t have to be a pipedream. Here are some ways to make it happen:

• Teach Something

If you love what you do and it is something you are good at, why not teach others how to do it? It is one of the easiest and most popular ways to make money both online and off.

• Be Creative

If you want to make money doing what you love, you have to figure out how to be different than the other people that had the same idea. You need to stand out in the crowd. Use what you know to create something new and exciting for you clients to enjoy.

• Be Flexible with Your Vision

Things don’t always go exactly like you’ve planned. You need to go into your pursuit with the knowledge that there isn’t always one way to do something. People are all different and respond to different things. You need to go in with the understanding that you’ll need to evolve and mold to different situations.

• Be Patient

Don’t be discouraged if your business is slow to take off. Just because you’ve struck out on your own doesn’t mean people will be lining up to give you their money right away.

• Realize it Won’t be Easy

If you don’t realize on the front end that it will most likely be a difficult journey, it will make the tough times even tougher to endure. If you go into it with a healthy dose of reality, it will make the challenges and trials much easier to handle.

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 Have you ever thought to yourself, “I wish I was more disciplined”? Every year millions of people make resolutions, but they fail to follow through with their commitments. How can you keep from falling into that category? Here are some ideas to help keep you on track:

• Turn Your Changes into Habits

Being more disciplined requires hard work and dedication. It isn’t as simple as deciding you want to be different. You actually have to follow through on your commitments and turn your changes into habits. Once you’ve made them part of your routine, it will be a lot easier to make the right decisions.

• Set Yourself Up for Success

Having discipline means making the right decisions even when you don’t want to. It is a whole lot easier to choose the right thing when you have fewer options to choose from. This way you have less opportunity to backslide into your old habits.

• Capitalize on Your Willpower

It has been said that we have a finite amount of willpower each day. If that is the case, it only makes sense to capitalize on your willpower and do the things you find the most difficult during the times you have the greatest amount of willpower.

• Find a Motivational Coach

Having someone in your corner to cheer you on as well as hold you accountable makes having self-discipline seem like a breeze.

• Make Public Commitments

No one wants to look like a fool in front of an audience, therefore you are much more likely to follow through once you have made your plans known.

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From time to time everyone decides to make canges in their lives. What they don’t talk about is the ugly truths that often go hand in hand with making life changes. It helps to have a healthy dose of reality and an overall awareness of the whole process. These are some things you should be prepared for:

• Change Takes Time

Once you make the decision to change it will take time for the rest of the world to respond in turn. Don’t expect to get a standing ovation just because you decided to make a life change. You’ll see and feel the results of your changes long before anyone else does.

• Change Takes Work

If you truly want to be different, you have to put in the work and make actual changes in your life. It won’t necessarily be easy, but anything worth doing rarely is.

• People Don’t Always Respond Positively

When you make changes, pushback is normal. It often takes time for other people to accept the new version of you. It will happen, just give it time.

• Change Must Be Continuous

Just because you’ve reached your goals doesn’t mean your work is finished. The majority of goals require maintenance to keep from backsliding.

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Let’s talk relationships. Relationships are some of the most complicated things for humans to get right. Sure, they start off rather fun, but that initial phase quickly turns into confusion, unclear boundaries, and arguments. Relationship advice from a trusted person can be helpful but if often comes late. By the time a person reaches out for help, their relationship is already on a downhill slope.  

In other words, let’s try to avoid the “do-over” if we can. While you can’t prevent every relationship problem (Someone like myself would be rich if they could do that!), you can decrease problems that stem from your own problems. 

That’s right, I said your own problems. 

I say “your problems” because I am a big believer in Darren Hardy’s 100% responsibility approach to life, including relationships. I believe that when it comes to relationships, it shouldn’t be a 50% split. The people involved should bring 100% of themselves to the relationships. That way, honesty can be expressed when it needs to be expressed. You didn’t need to reveal everything, but you do need the space and comfort to reveal the important things that will keep your relationship together. 

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Like a good “responsible” adult, I created a budget. On paper, everything looked great. I had everything accounted for. In reality, I suffered from “empty piggy bank syndrome”. Every month, without fail, I exhausted my budget and had to dig into my savings or debt just to survive.

That’s what happens when your income is only $30,000 per year but your debt is $70,000 and the bills keep coming.

Breaking out of this pattern felt like an impossibility until I started to take small and specific steps to dig a path toward financial freedom. I took specific steps, some of them outlined below, to build a life centered around my financial future and not my financial past.

1. Get a REAL honest picture of where you are.
2. Start looking for the “leaks” in your budget.
3. Pay yourself first.
4. Pre-spend every dollar. End the month with a zero budget.
5. Set up auto-pay, if you are can afford it.
6. Become a financial adult. Delay instant gratification.

One resource I found to very helpful to me was Dave Ramsey.

Please note that I am providing general financial principles, not specific advice. For specific financial advice, please contact a certified financial advisor.

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