Are you working night and day and still feel you’re accomplishing nothing? If you want to change this, first you have to clear your vision and then become the master of your own time. In order to do so, you have to follow some simple, but useful steps. First you have to clear out some things..

• First of all you need a clear vision of what you want to do and set clear goals.
• Then break your long term goals into smaller pieces and let them determine your daily actions.
• It is important to take an inventory of everything you do in your day. Record all the projects you are working on, your thoughts, conversations and activities for a week so that you will understand where your precious moments are going. You’ll see how much time is actually spent producing results and how much time is wasted on unproductive thoughts, conversations and actions.
• Now find out which of these roles are the ones that will make the biggest impact on your success. Schedule time for high-priority things, from your thoughts to actions that have to be done. And have the discipline to keep these appointments.

And how to become the master of your own time?

• First in the morning make plans of what are you going to do in a day.
• It is important to block out all distractions like Facebook and all other forms of social media. Make sure you use them only to generate your business.
• Don’t forget to put a “Do not disturb” sign when you are busy and practice not to instantly give people your attention unless it is important for business reasons.
• The best option is to shut all distractions down until you don’t finish what you intended to.
• Do not respond e-mails just when they arrive. If not cruical to respond, finish your tasks first and then scheldue some time for e-mails.
• Try not to answering the phone every time it is ringing, if not important. You can return calls later, when you finish your priority tasks.
• Before you start doing some task take some time to make sure what result you want to attain. After task is done check if you achieved desired results. If you haven’t try to figure out where it went wrong and how you could do it better next time.
• Schedule time for breaks and interuptions.
• Focus on the results you want in a day, think why you want these results, develop the actions to achieve the results, estimate time for actions and schedule the actions.
• Because it’s impossible to get everything done, if  you haven’t finished some things today, let the unfinished things be the first on your to-do list for the next day.

Sources:

• http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/219553
• http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/198984