Managing time in a busy day is a challenge for every business owner. In a personal trainer’s business, you are also dealing with the schedules of your clients. While each of us usually has a plan of attack for our daily lives, few of us actually know how to leverage our time.

Many people are conditioned to work by a list. Some are obliged to do it. The list says there is a scheduled meeting in the early morning, and then clients back to back until lunch, and then activities in the afternoon, all in the time schedule until that hour when you’re done and get to go home. When you’re at home the to-do list has other duties for you.

That’s a schedule. Yet it does not prove to be an efficient way to manage your time.

When y ou leverage something, you balance it. Keeping a good balance of your own time is key.

You cannot make improvements in your own balance if you have no idea where your life is on the scale. It’s important to evaluate your current situation before you can do anything about it.

One of the best ways to do this is to write in a journal for a few days, or, even better, an entire week. After the time period, determine the amount of time spent with your family.

• Did you spend time doing a hobby or something else you really enjoyed?

• What did you read?

• How much exercise did you get?

• Within that particular time, did you have a good read?

• If so, was it for work or for enjoyment?

• Did you spend time in any personal goals or endeavors, and if so, how much?

If you’re stuck on a typical “to do” list schedule, chances are you’ll see that your time is imbalanced in some of these areas. Do the math on where you spent your time and on what. How much time did you spend for business, family, personal growth, reading and other interests? Take note of the percentages. How much time did you allot for career compared to family and other important aspects? The results could surprise you!

The great part about this exercise is that once you see how little time you spend on personal development, you can devise a plan to change it. Dedicate time for each aspect of your life like personal goals and interests, work, family, etc.

When you understand the idea of time leverage, your life won’t be held hostage by a “to do” list ever again! Your “to do” list is a great way to remind you of duties, but it shouldn’t take you away from the life you should be enjoying.

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Here are my secrets:

1. I answer my mail – or I throw him(it) – or I delegate him – every day, so that he does not pile up.

 2. I have a precise notion of what  is worth one hour of my time.
I calculate her every year, and, according to it, I estimate the opportunity – or not – to make, by somebody of the other one, the work do. He me surp produces tou-days to see how people who surround me waste their time – their most precious good – in a line, in a traffic jam, in the post office, etc.

 3. When I work, I pay attention that the investment-time is not disproportionate with regard to what it brings back to me – silver or in pleasure!

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 4. I think that the life is short and that we do not take his(her,its) time my with one to its death.
Thus, I make her(it) pleasant, here and now, and not tomorrow! I want louse to see disappearing at any time from this earth(ground) without regrets.

5. During a meeting, I prevent my interlocutor, from the beginning, of the time which I have.
By giving limits, the meeting is going to get organized automatically without extending beyond.

 6. Not only I make a daily and monthly list of things make, but I keep completed lists and I analyze them “under cold conditions”.

7. I have a list of the most frequent telephones, a column “House”, “Hotels / restaurants”, “Health” in my address book instead of an only alphabetical ré-pertoire. I publish on labels self-adhesive names and addresses of my friends most frequently.

 8. I say to myself that the time usually considered to realize a task is a mental limit which can be questioned.

9. I take(bring) out limits of the successful ideas. For it I read works of per-sonnages outstanding, I surround myself with friends and with knowledge origi-naux, and I put on every thing(matter) a new glance.

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10. I write emails of 3 lines, words of a sentence.
I absolutely am not in the bond to write enormously.