Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Wasting Precious Time
We already work a long day. We arrive at the warehouse between 7 and 7:30 a.m. We almost never leave before 8 p.m. and usually it is later. HOWEVER, lately I feel that we are wasting precious time after we leave here. I go home and sit in front of the TV for an hour to an hour and a half.
If you are not where you need to be financially, you need to take better care of your time. If you could learn a new trade in the time you waste on other things. If you could spend quality time with your family (TV is not quality time) it would be time well spent. The thing is, if you are just barely paying the bills, that’s us, you need to devote all of your time to fixing that problem.
Sharon and I are slipping when it comes to doing a full days work. We spend too much time during the day doing non-productive things. Checking the news online at CNN, playing a game of solitaire or Majong. All of this is robbing us of the income we need to be comfortably ahead.
Often we are just going around in circles doing busy work that helps organized part of the warehouse or gets some other “important” but not essential task done. Some time spent organizing and house keeping is necessary, but when we spend two days organizing and not selling, we do not make any money for that time.
It is time for us to re-evaluate out time management. It is time to use all of our time to the maximum so we can free time for more leisure in the future. Short term sacrifice often can lead to long term benefit.
