The power of managing time

We've all heard about 'time is money', which is true in a variety of ways. But think of it in simple terms, let's say you make about 60,000$ while being employed (or perhaps on your own little business 5 days a week)

If you somehow figured to reduce your wasted minutes by 24 minutes a day, you would actually earn about 3,000$ more in the year. That's a simplistic view of how saving time translates immediately to money - but the reality is the ability to better manage our work time, analyze it and improve upon it can create big changes in terms of how you are perceived at workplace, or how you can manage your business by allocating time to where it matters.

Time management is often made to seem like this huge complex concept where you have to track everything you do and kill yourself in the details. In reality, a lot of people do just fine with little adjustments as long as they have a reasonably good view of their work habits. Theoretically, you can say "I know how I spend my day!" but in practice, just seeing a set of numbers or a simple graph can throw surprising results on your work habits. Just tuning it a bit can yield interesting results - for e.g what happens if you turn off outlook email notifications? Try that a few days - and check email only once every 45 minutes. You will probably create yourself a 'free' time of about 20 minutes a day from just that. Then there are other techniques...which is for next time!