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A Simple Strategy to Reclaim Time, Reduce Overwhelm and Get More Done

19 Nov 2009 Jay (Jason Van Orden) 1 Comment

iStock_000003459704XSmallThis week I refreshed my time budget and it is already impacting my productivity for the better. I should really do it more often.

I came up with the time budget when I was tired of feeling like I wasn’t getting the most important things each week.

It’s tricky to balance the recurring tasks of your business week to week – things like content creation – with marketing and other massive actions that will grow your business.

So just like you might create a budget to carefully plan how you spend your money, you should also create a budget for your time.

The Payoff of Time Budgeting

This technique is one reason we’ve been able to reduce the amount of time that we each spend on Internet Business Mastery to twenty hours a week. We have to very deliberate about how that time is used.

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IBM 2 | The Magic of Controlling Your Time

24 Oct 2005 Jay (Jason Van Orden) 8 Comments

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In this episode of Internet Business Mastery, we take a look into the typical day of an internet entrepreneur and how you can best manage your time in order to find success in your internet business. We offer several tips based on how we schedule our day for maximum productivity including:

  • How Sterling ensures that he has the creative energy he needs for making important strategic decisions
  • How we start our day to get maximum momentum for the rest of the day
  • Sterling’s favorite tools for staying on track with your schedule
  • How Sterling makes it work with a home office with a family around
  • Our favorite book about Time Management
  • A system Jay uses to schedule each day to make sure the most important things get done
  • How to control the phone and email

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