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Managing Your Time: Creating Your Whole Life
By Joey Tamer



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4. Set these goals:
    a. Set actual total working hours to at least 40 hours per week, or whatever is appropriate to your work and life.

    b. Get Administration to less than 10%. This may take an investment in time, but it will pay off over the years (later, get it to less than 5%). Do this by simplifying your processes, updating your email clients and data bases, learning to use software that saves time; hiring help if you can afford it; outsourcing web updates, transcriptions, etc.; consolidating all business expenses to a single credit card and having bills automatically paid to this credit card (preferably the one with airline miles).

    c. Commit that all working hours not on billable time will be spent on marketing and networking, except for the 5-10% of unavoidable Administration.
    d. Set aside 2-4 hours to focus on Administration, at the most appropriate time (Friday afternoons? End of week? End of month? When bills are due?) Turn off the phone as if you are in a meeting, and focus. The Administration will get done more quickly this way, and it will not haphazardly interfere with the flow of your work for clients and marketing.
5. Structure your working hours to suit your life, and make a commitment to this structure:
    a. If you are not a morning person, do your personal stuff (working out; thinking; communing with friends, sleeping, whatever) in the morning and train your clients that you will not answer the phone or email until 10:00 a.m. They’ll learn to work around it if you don’t make a scene, even the out-of-town clients.

    b. If you are a morning person, structure your schedules around that, and be unavailable for late afternoon and evening meetings.

    c. Do not fly red-eyes unless you like them better.
6. Live up to these commitments. Try them out. Persist. Keep your discipline. Be polite. You will be surprised that you can have what you want if you quietly persist at setting the boundaries that create a whole life for you.