Don't let people waste your time

All people waste time, but if you can waste your time on some unimportant tasks, useless meetings, etc., there are also some kind of people that waste your time during a day and sometimes each day. If you are able to avoid your time wasters, it is not always possible to avoid those people, who waste your time, as they can reach you by phone, via e-mail or simply come to your desk with some question. So, what can you do with these parasites of time? Here are several tips that can help you:

• Schedule all the tasks, meetings and appointments you plan each day and don’t forget to schedule time you will spend on them.
• Turn off the phone and close the door when you are working on some important or urgent task. You don’t have to answer the phone just because it rings or open the door just because someone is knocking at it. People around you will waste as much time as you let them and interrupt you as often as you let them. So, schedule some time in your list that you can spend on some interruptions, on making and answering phone calls and answering e-mails.
• Control time you spend on meetings with employees. Make a habit to finish meetings in time. If some of your employees have additional suggestions or questions, discuss them in the most appropriate time for you after the meeting.

Using these tips you will learn how to deal with people and don’t let them waste your time anymore. However, you need a tool which can help you in organizing and planning your time. Such tool is VIP Organizer . It is a professional personal planner, which allows to create task list, where you can keep your tasks, prioritize them, create categories and sub-categories, add notes to each task, set deadlines, set filters to the tasks you need to accomplish during a day, during a week etc. Also, you can set a reminder and you won't forget about the task you need to accomplish next. Try to use this software for organizing your tasks and time and you will see the result in a short period of time.

See also: Don't say 'yes' all the time