Where Does Time Go??

If you're like many people I meet, you have days that are non-stop busy, but you can't explain exactly what you accomplished.  You feel like you've been spinning your wheels!  Sometimes we let certain activities take up too much of our time.  Is it Facebook? Email? Sipping on your morning coffee while reading the paper? Catching up with friends and co-workers to see what fun things they did over the weekend?  (Feel free to insert your time-waster here.)  Engaging in all of these activities is perfectly fine...but you may not realize how much time you spend doing so.  

If you're really serious about finding more time in your day, I suggest keeping a Time Log for a week.  Write down everything you do and how much time you spend on it.  Include time spent on eating, phone calls, driving, appointments, interruptions, watching tv, sleeping--you get the idea.  This way you can pinpoint where your time is leaking.  Then you can eliminate or at least shorten time spent on time-wasting activities.  

Here's a wonderful book on time management:  Improve Your Time Management, written by Polly Bird.  Well worth spending the time to read it!