How many times have you said or heard “there’s just not enough time in the day”? In my former career, I said it all the time. It was the reason my dry cleaning was never dropped off (much less picked up), why home projects left up to me remained in a “get there one day” pile, and why my husband had to do pretty much everything from bill paying to grocery shopping to pet care. I just didn’t have enough time.

After launching YuDu, things changed a little. I started to focus on time efficiency and time management. As a concierge and personal assistant, you basically have to become an expert in managing not just your own time – but that of your clients as well.  As with learning a language…survival is the best environment to learn!

Have you ever tracked your time? I mean down to the minute? There is even time tracker software out there right now that you can download for free to track how you spend your time. (You can email me about that later). What most people find when they start tracking there time is – Wow! I waste a LOT of time. Now, don’t get me wrong. I am a firm believer that some times you need a little non-productive time where you are thinking, being creative, relaxing – giving your brain a break and the opportunity to problem solve or even think up opportunities. My point is that most of us feel like we “have no time” when really we are not managing our time. So what I am going to do today as part of our time saver secrets is show you how to manage your time, point out some time wasters, and then give you a few tricks of the trade.

Just keep one thing in mind – YOU and Bill Gates have the same amount of hours, minutes and seconds in your day.

Some of these you many know but don’t follow and some of these may take you some time to realize that you need to do, but I’m telling you – if you want a balanced life, where you are excited about getting up and energetic about your tasks at hand, you need to pay attention to these 5 Steps for Improving Time Management.

1. LIST. I have a motto that I use at night that is “its 10 pm, do you know where your priorities are?” Some of you may remember the evening news anchor in the 80’s that used something similar to ask parents about where their children were. In [...]