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Hello guys,steemians and everyone on the platform I welcome you all to my blog, wishing you all a successful new month.Hope you All enjoyed your weekend my was awesome.

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Today I will be writing on schedule and how to stick to it. A schedule is timetable, as a basic time-management tool, consists of a list of times at which possible tasks, events, or actions are intended to take place, or of a sequence of events in the chronological order in which such things are intended to take place.

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The process of creating a schedule - deciding how to order these tasks and how to commit resources between the variety of possible tasks - is called scheduling,and a person responsible for making a particular schedule may be called a scheduler. Making and following schedules is an ancient human activity.

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Once you have prioritized the things you need to do in a day you then need to fit those tasks into a schedule so that they all get done.

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The most important thing to do when working out a schedule is to be realistic about how long things will take to get done.

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You also need to remember to include things like time for traveling if you go to the gym, or how long that phone call to your mother will really take.

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No, those two items are not necessary in running a business but your schedule won't only include business tasks.

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A good schedule will cover the things you do in business, your social events, personal appointments and even some well-needed "me" time.

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If you have to go to pick your children up from school that will be on your schedule as will be that call you have been putting off to your mother.

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When you set up a schedule it is obvious that your tasks are going to be different every day of the week.

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But a good schedule should start with you blocking off certain times for work, socializing, family commitments and the things you like to do as well like going to the gym.

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When you have blocked off your day into those main components you can then start fitting in the tasks you have prioritized for the day into the relevant blocks.

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# HOW TO HANDLE MORE TASK THAN TIME BLOCKS ISSUES.

• PRIORITZE & DELEGATE
  Training Your Clients to fit into Your Schedule as a business owner.
  Email and phone calls can be two of the biggest nuisances you will have with your online business or your blog because they can be so time-consuming if you allow them to be.

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Given the age of lightening fast response times many people expect for their emails queries to be answered immediately or they expect you to spend a heap of amount of time on the telephone helping them.

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If you have a business to run the one thing you don't have is the time to spend all day on emails or the phone for that matter.

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The easiest way to deal with this problem is to allocate certain times of the day to respond to phone calls and answer emails.

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For example you could decide that you will only check your emails first thing in the morning and again at about 4 pm. The same with phones - only return calls between 11 am and 12 Noon for example. Outside of those times you can either

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get someone else to take a message for you.

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leave an answer message on your phone telling clients when you will return their call.

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With email you should not look at your inbox except first thing in the morning or late in the afternoon. If you are waiting on a specific email ask someone else to check your email for you and let you know when the email has arrived.

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* CHATS AND TEXT MESSAGES CAN ALSO BE A HUGE TIME WASTERS If you can't bear to leave your phone if you know you have messages, turn it off. Same with chat programs. Show yourself as "busy" and invite people to leave you a message; then you can get back to them when you are ready, not while you are in the middle of something important.

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If your business is still in its start-up phase you may be understandably anxious about leaving phone and email messages to pile up while you are working but your business will be better because of this.

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Over time your clients will come to know that you will respond within a certain time frame as will your phone clients.

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In the meantime you are carving out blocks of time when you can really focus on what will be bringing in the money.

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# THE IMPORTANCE OF THINGS ONCE AND GETTING IT FINISHED.

It is a lot easier to remain focused on your online business or blog if you try and only deal with incoming messages the once and that you finish the tasks you schedule for yourself.

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If you decide to open an email message (or letter if you are still getting them) then plan on completing any action on it so it can be filed away.

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Don't make the mistake of opening an email then thinking, "Oh I will get back to that later". The reason you should not do something like that is that you will carry on with your other tasks but you will be distracted by the email you opened but did not resolve.

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This will make you less productive overall. So if you don't have the time to action an email, don't open it.

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When you are scheduling your work tasks try and do it so that you reach a natural end to a part of a project or job. For example you might be writing a post or building a website for someone so you could schedule a block of time when you source all of the graphics for the job.

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If you are writing a new course as a product you could decide to write the first module or X number of words. Try and set yourself little deadlines and smaller chunks of bigger jobs and you will find you will achieve more over a shorter space of time.

CREATING THE FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE

There is one constant in life and that is "Life Happens" and your schedule needs to be flexible enough to handle life's little ups and downs.

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Many people running online businesses often work from home at least during the start up phase and this means the potential for things to go wrong thanks to other family members is increased.

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Children can get sick and require attention at home when you want to work.
You might have personal appointments that you have to fit in around your working schedule. Your Mother might decide to come and stay and wants to know why you can't take her out for the day.

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It will be amazing to you how often people equate staying at home with having nothing to do so don't be surprised that when you do decide to focus on your business and you are trying to sort out a schedule that some one else comes along and makes things difficult.

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There are two ways that you can help reduce the "Life Happens" factor in your schedule; firstly you need to plan ahead and give yourself plenty of time to take care of client or business needs and secondly you need to learn to say "no" every now and then.

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A couple of examples for planning ahead might include factoring a couple of additional hours to finish a client project that can be used for an emergency; you could factor in a couple of evenings through the week to catch up on work left unfinished during the day or you could add an extra week to a client deadline so that you are not left clambering around with hours to go on a deadline trying to finish.

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Saying "no" is always difficult but if you want to seriously focus on your online business then it would be a really good idea for you to start trying.

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If someone asks you to do something with them or for them and you have work scheduled simple say to them "I am sorry I can't, I have to work this afternoon" or something along those lines.

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If you take your schedule seriously then you will find it easier to explain to others that your work is something that is important to you and if they respect you, then they will respect that as well.

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There will always be some people who might say "oh that internet thing" but don't let that worry you.

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Stay focused on your online business and make a mental note to check out their facial expression when you buy your next new car.

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Thanks for reading.

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