4 Ways to Squeeze the Most Out of Every Minute of Your Day

3. Is it worth your time?

In order to prioritize your time, only do tasks that are actually worth your time. To do this, you must first figure out how much your time is worth. Let’s say you earn $4000 per month – that’s $1000 per week. Divide that by how many hours you work in a week – let’s say it’s 60. That means an hour of your time is worth $16.67.

So is it really worth washing your car or cleaning your house when you can pay someone $10 per hour to do it for you? Or is it worth posting to a client’s social media when you can pay someone to do it for $5 per hour? You may think that you’ll earn more money by doing everything yourself, but in the long run you’re actually reducing your value by not outsourcing the menial stuff.

“Managing your time without setting priorities is like shooting randomly and calling whatever you hit the target.” – Peter Turla

4. Only work on your IGTs

IGTs (income generating tasks) is a term I came across in Rob Moore’s book, ‘Life Leverage’. In it, he explains that a golfer takes 40% of his shots with 7% of his golf clubs (the putter). Therefore he should be spending more time on practicing his putting than on the other clubs.

At least your top 3 items on your to-do list should be you IGTs in order of priority. Say you own a marketing agency – your top three IGTs for a particular day could be:

Make 5 door-to-door cold pitches. (each successful pitch could mean $1000+ income every month so this is an obvious IGT)

Write 1000 words of your social media marketing eBook (this will be given to potential clients as part of your sales funnel – also an IGT)

Create a new Facebook ad campaign for a client (successful ad campaign = money from commissions. Another IGT)

Focusing on the tasks that will generate the highest amount of profit in the shortest amount of time is the top way of investing your time. By focusing the majority of your day on your IGTs you are squeezing all you can out of each minute invested.

So there you have it. By committing to at least one of these you will not only save valuable minutes but make more progress within each minute. I recommend starting by tracking your time for at least a month. Then figure out ways to get back wasted time. Then use that saved time on your income generating tasks. This way you’re literally making twice as much progress on time you didn’t even have to spare before.

Original Source: addicted2success

Hope that you can implement the above 4 hacks almost immediately and get the best impact out of it.

Time saved is time earned for you to do other better things.

Let's end this post with a quote by Bruce Lee:

“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”