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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION TO TIME MANAGEMENT......................................... 3
WHAT IS TIME MANAGEMENT? ...................................................... 5
ACHIEVING YOUR GOALS ............................................................. 6
GROWING YOUR PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS ................................. 9
THRIVE FINANCIALLY.................................................................. 11
LIVE A HEALTHIER LIFE .............................................................. 13
LIVE A HAPPIER AND STRESS FREE LIFE ....................................... 14
THE IMPORTANCE OF TIME MANAGEMENT TO YOUR WORK ............. 16
THE HAZARDS OF PROCRASTINATION .......................................... 21
TIME MANAGEMENT THEORIES .................................................... 30
MASLOW’S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS................................................ 32
TIME MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES .................................................. 40
FINAL THOUGHTS....................................................................... 50

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Introduction To Time Management
Life is very busy, and at times, everyone needs a little help making
things come together and makes sense. That is what this eBook is all
about - - helping to make things come together and make sense.
Time management is a vital and critical skill that an individual must
possess and have a solid grasp on in order to be successful in any
field. However, it is particularly important skill and manoeuvre for
those individuals who are trying to make a living online.
This eBook was written with those in mind who have a desire to
become more organized and more productive. It was designed to help
individuals achieve a better understanding and discipline of time
management and the important significance that it has both in their
business and personal lives.
Throughout this eBook on Time Management and its principles, you
will find helpful definitions, explanations, and examples of time
management tips and techniques. These strategies will focus on how
time management relates to those who own an online business. It will
also speak to those who are currently working as Internet marketers.
The Internet is loaded with a lot of valuable useful information that the
everyday entrepreneur can glean a lot from. But, it is also loaded with
quite a bit of fluff and unnecessary content. The task can be quite
strenuous for those who are working online trying to sift through it all
in an effort to find good, relevant information for their purposes.

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The successful online marketer has a commodity called Time, and they
don’t have very much of it. One of the main keys to being a successful
online business owner or Internet marketer is acquiring the skills that
they need to sift through the readily available information and find
ways to effectively manage their time.
The information contained within this Time Management ebook will
show you how to eliminate hours off of your schedule and become
more productive. We will share tips on how you can increase your
available hours and branch out into other, lucrative and rewarding
money- making ventures.
This ebook will also show you ways that you can carve out time for
relaxing, time for family, or even time to do other activities that
increase your quality of life.
When you properly understand time management and how it works,
you can then make a structured plan for your everyday life and find
more productive hours. Once you have learned how to properly
manage your time, both in personal and in business aspects, every
other aspect of your life will improve.
You will then find yourself achieving more and being more successful
than you thought was possible.

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What is Time Management?
Time management is a concept that will be reiterated over and over
again as you go through your life, constantly reminding you of the

necessity of effectively managing the time that you have from day to
day. The concept itself is fairly easy to grasp. But the actual concept of
time management is much more difficult than simply listing a
definition.
What then is time management? The official definition of time
management states that it is a myriad of activities and theories that
helps us to live a more productive, effective and successful life.
However, a look at the multiple benefits and various techniques, which
make up time management, helps you to have a better understanding
of what it really is.

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Achieving Your Goals
Effective time management allow business-minded individuals to list
their goals, giving them a visual of where it is that they want to be and
a clear directive on how to get there. It also gives them a way and
means to achieve those goals.
But, if you are not at all interested in effectively managing your time,
then you do not have an immediate need for goals. You would never
be able to achieve your goals without a specific plan or guidelines.
Think about this for a moment: without the activity of time
management in your life, then you would essentially jump from one
activity to the next with no sense of direction or purpose. Your life
would not be very full and you may even experience feelings of selfdoubt and become non-productive.
By instituting a time management plan and life-planning goals and

daily activities, setting those goals becomes of the utmost importance.
It is so important that as a business owner, that you set and achieve
both personal and long-term business goals.
Without having an established set of goals to guide you, it becomes
nearly is impossible to effectively manage your time, because you
have no idea where your time would be best spent.

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By setting goals, you will give yourself goals to work towards, and, you
will be able to put together a schedule that enables you to achieve
those goals. You can sensibly gain a higher sense of self-confidence
and self-achievement when you introduce solid, applicable time
management techniques into your schedule.
Become More Productive
A business owner’s dream is to become more productive and make
more use of his or her available time, right? Why then should you
become more productive? Because not only does time management
help you to achieve your goals and further your business position, but
effective time management also helps you in leading a more
productive and fruitful life.
You see, when you increase your productivity levels, the benefits are
endless; enabling you to achieve a greater amount of work than you
ever could before.
For instance, if you delegate responsibilities at home or at work, you
are able to increase the amount of productive time that you have on

projects, business affairs and even within your personal time.
When you implement strategic time management techniques, you are
then allowing yourself to become more productive. You are also
eliminating time wasters and time distracters and freeing up your
available time for other more important tasks.

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In other words, you are eliminating distractions and focusing on the
task at hand and on the job that you have to do.

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Growing Your Personal Relationships
When you want to know the true meaning and the true character of an
individual, you often don’t have to venture too far to get your answer.
Who they really are is often a matter of what their home life is like and
what their personal relationships are like.
Determining the true definition of time management could perhaps
require you to look a little closer to home since time management is
defined as a simplistic way to help nurture, grow and expand personal
relationships.


Do you have an excess amount of time to spare? If you do, consider
spending this quality time with loved ones in an effort to create a

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thriving balance in your personal relationships. The benefits will be
great and the rewards are beyond measurement.
However, if you do not properly manage your time or you are
overwhelmed in your business relationships, you might eventually
consider taking time away from family and friends to make up for it. In
the long run, this can be the worst thing that you can do.
There is only a certain amount of hours in a day that you have to work
within. You see, in order to complete the tasks that need to and that
have to be done, you must take time from other areas in order to
complete these tasks. So, what ends up happening is that time that
should be spent on relationship building and nurturing is then used to
get these other tasks done.
This inadvertently creates feelings of resentment with your friends and
family members and can also lead to hostile relationships with them as
well. Those family members may feel as if they are not important to
you or worth the time that it takes to nurture their bond with you.
Eventually, a personal relationship loss can also cause depression and
withdrawals in other aspects of your life. Another thing that it can also
do is to cause you to fall even farther and farther behind in your work,
which eventually, can lead to even more and more non-productivity in

your business life.
Proper scheduling and a fair assessment and implementation of time
management techniques can help you find and achieve any goals that

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you have set for yourself. You will find that you are better able to
foster personal relationships and live a happier, more productive and
quality life.

Thrive Financially
Thoroughly tested time management techniques and activities will help
you be successful and thrive financially.
As you find that you are able to manage your time well, you also see
that you are able to complete each and every one of your tasks in a
timelier manner and move on to other projects that are either
revenue-producing or assist you in meeting your budgetary goals. In
other words, when you are organized, you will find yourself saving
more money and being cost-conscious than before.
Finance-producing

activities

become

more


important

and

more

attainable when you are organized and better able to assess where
you are within a project. Because you can focus better, your energies
are best spent on client relationships and retention.
You are able then to seek higher paying assignments or projects, find
better paying clients and focusing on building up your customer base.
You are also able to produce better quality products and more of a
diverse product base for your online business.
Effective time management helps to make all of these scenarios doable
and possible. If they are implemented strategically and effectively,

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they can help you and your business to become more financially stable
and independent.

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Live a Healthier Life
Living a healthier life and having a healthy lifestyle is also a by-product
of good, effective time management. When you are better able to
control your time and the things that you do with your time, you then
have the means to live a healthier life as well.
Stress reduction as a result of proper time management can help you
to eliminate digestive problems, get better results from exercising,
beat insomnia, cure headaches, and remedy any other conditions that
might be the result of stress on your body.
When you have more time, you have less stress in your life, therefore
you are ultimately more productive. When there is more time thatn
there is a day full of stress, you can also cut back and eliminate stressrelated injuries that can occur with the damaging effects of stress on
your body.
When you are stressed, you are more prone to ailments and
sicknesses that are almost difficult to gain control of. You may also
find yourself re-injuring yourself and more susceptible to injuries or
falls.
Having damaging, physically demanding stress is not a good thing and
does nothing to help the body in any way. Being able to concentrate
and focus on your body’s needs is what you can do to combat the
effects of stress in your life.

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You can also make better physical choices with the choice of foods that
you eat and put into your body. How? Managing your time more
effectively helps you to stay healthy by enabling you to make healthier
meal choices and eliminate convenience foods. This will also give you
time to exercise, therefore helping you to be stronger, feel stronger
and look younger too.

Live a Happier and Stress Free Life
When you manage your time more effectively, you are able to produce
a life that is essentially filled with significantly more peace and
happiness and definitely less stress.
Exercising time management techniques and activities will allow you to
find free time to pursue the things that add quality and substance to
your life. With additional time (that has been properly scheduled and
allocated), you can make better use of the time that you do have
available, therefore leading to an overall stress-free and a much
happier life.
When your time is better allocated, you also get to compete tasks in a
stress free environment minus the worrying over what to do and when
you should do it. You then have more time to attend to the things in
your life that demand your attention and give it the quality time that
each of those areas deserve.

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What else can effective time management do? With it, you are also

able to thrive both emotionally and financially within your personal and
professional relationships. When your relationships are thriving and
are satisfactory, you find that you sense a much higher level of
happiness and peace that will help you be even more productive.
The best way to achieve goals is when you are relaxed and able to
think clearly and more focused. As you manage your time better, you
can do this in more ways because of your clear thinking. If all of your
many needs are being taken care of with good time management, the
final result will be complete satisfaction and happiness.
So again, what is time management and how effective is it on my life?
Although there are many definitions, varied based on the situation and
in relative communities, the only way to truly explore the essence of
good time management is to:
1. see how it (and the absence of it) affects your life.
2. implement the necessary steps to achieve a productive lifestyle.
3. see what strategies you can implement that are workable.
4. set a long-term plan to continue working what is working for you.
Although time management is a defined way for anyone, an individual,
corporation or a business owner to become more productive, the end
result should be to achieve goals, thrive financially, create stronger
and better relationships, and live a healthier, happier life.

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When you fully understand the whole definition of time management,
you can then appreciate how ultimately important time management is

to any online (or offline) business that you may have and to your life
in general.

The Importance of Time Management to
Your Work
Earlier in the book, we discussed how time management can help you
as a business owner to be more productive in your business and also
how it can shift your available time to have more time to experiment
with other avenues towards financial profit and independence.

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For any online business owner or Internet marketers, the ability to
manage your time is significantly much more of a challenge than those
who are in a traditional or regular work environment.
Essentially, individuals who are freelancers, contract labourers and
self-employed haven’t anyone who oversees their progress or who
charts their activity for them from one day to another.
Since these loners haven’t a boss or a supervisor with which to be
accountable to, they often experience a great deal of stress and
frustration when they are trying to manage their time. It is simple and
often easy to put tasks off until they become so overwhelming that
they have no other choices with which to get them done.
Since there is no accountability with them, and the frustration levels
mount quickly, they then become victims of poor time management
which then in turn mount frustrations even higher and cause even less

productive time.
Alternatively, it is also quite easy for individuals who work from home
online to become so entrenched with their work and finding profitbuilding activities, that they forget (or do they just not have enough
time?) to forge the necessary time for themselves and for their
personal relationships.
Although it is good and admirable to be a dedicated, focused
independent worker, these same qualities can also be a haunting,

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negative plight against the worker who is trying to meet goals and
build their businesses.
If you are an online worker, it is of the utmost importance that you set
clear, defined and reachable goals everyday. This gives you a sense of
satisfaction and allows you to move your daily to-do’s around as you
deem necessary.
When you have a strict schedule, or at least a workable schedule, you
can stay on track to get things done in a manner that is relaxed and
comprehensive yet allowing you to feel focused and as if you have
accomplished a lot.
When you allocate your time in an efficient manner, you can then
carve out more time to partake in other activities or find new projects
that you’d like to begin, but perhaps lacked the necessary time or
interest that you would have otherwise needed.
If you work from home, then you can certainly appreciate the
importance and the benefits of beginning new projects that are going

to significantly help your business in the long run.
For instance, if you are an Internet marketer, you may find that you
want to conduct research surveys on new marketing strategies that
are on the scene. You may have been reading material and articles
about the strategy, but just didn’t have the time to pursue the
information that you uncovered. Properly positioned and strategized,
you can do this research, gain new insights, new clients and new leads

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and feel as if you’ve accomplished much progress in the short span of
a day.

Let’s say that you have begun your day by focusing on a non-essential
project that is promising to take up quite a bit of your time. If you
focus heavily on the portion of your work that is of no consequence (at
least not immediately) then you risk ruining that space of time that
could have been better spent on other projects and in other venues of
your business.
You also run the risk of missing other important deadlines for work
that you have to do. A deadline to reach?
Then why work on social networking articles without giving regards to
actually meeting your deadline? Sure, those venues need attention,

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but if you have a profitable, money-making demand that is on your
time right now, it is far better to satisfy THAT deadline than it is to
make possible new ventures.
Good time management activities and strategies can help you to
adequately define what the most important tasks each day are and
make the necessary time to complete each one of them. It can also
leave you with extra time for enjoyable activities sprinkled throughout
the day.
When you establish an effective time management protocol and a
workable schedule, you are instilling the best possible strategy that is
conducive towards the effective use of time for your business. As such,
doing this and implementing workable skills should be of the utmost
importance.
When you have a good time management strategy in place, you can
get more done in less stressful environments, and thereby become
more profitable online business owners or Internet marketers.

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The Hazards of Procrastination
Why procrastinate? Because it’s just easy to do!
There really isn’t a good reason (if there can be a good reason) why

anyone should procrastinate. Procrastination does nothing to advance
your personal or professional goals and also brings with it it’s own set
of frustrations and anxieties.
Procrastinating is one of the biggest mistakes that you can make on
your quest towards effectively managing your time and carving out a
quality life towards time management. In the end, you want to be sure
that you are being proactively engaging with the time that you have
allotted in each day. Don’t ruin it with procrastinating.
Negative Financial Effects
How can a life of procrastination have a negative financial effect?
When you procrastinate and sloth around on a daily basis, then it
could invariably lead to significant financial problems. You can spend
(or not spend) so much time avoiding the things that you need to do
that you lose sight of the things that require your attention.
When you put things off, delay them or just avoid them altogether, it
becomes increasingly difficult to complete things or bring closure to
open projects. It is hard to get very much productive work done.

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Falling behind can cause you undue stress in running and maintaining
your online business.
What happens when your productivity is reduced? You run the very
real risk and the very costly risk of losing clients or having clients
demand refunds on work that you’ve already done for them. When you
are distracted with clients leaving or in the process of refunding them

for projects, you lessen the time that you need to explore any other
lucrative money making ideas.
In addition to financial stresses, procrastination can also cause other
problems in your life that can be detrimental. When you delay other
imperative life activities like paying bills, shopping or even car
maintenance, you essentially are affecting your family’s happiness and
comfort and the health and well-being of your business. What you put
off or procrastinate over can end up having you pay out exorbitant
amounts in late fees.
Consistently paying late fees on your credit cards can upset your credit
ratings, your ability to get new credit and even your ability to work
within the business sector, since you often need to use credit to
function.
Negative credit ratings can become a huge problem, especially if you
need credit in order to run your business or household. Once you
begin receiving negative ratings on your credit report, it affects your
ability to get more credit, secure business loans and can even keep
you from getting personal loans for homes or vehicles.

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When you procrastinate, you’re also hindered from saving money and
setting aside money to take care of emergency situations. If you’re
unable to pay your bills in a timely manner, you will also be unable to
put aside money for savings for business and/or personal expenses.
Since internet marketing businesses that are operated online do not

consistently produce the same monthly income, a healthy savings
account is often necessary in order to ensure that things are run in a
smooth manner. If you don’t have a savings account, or at least
money to earmark for a savings account, you decrease your chances
to save and add to your business.
If you are a procrastinator, it’s likely that you are not saving a lot (if
any) and can be affected in the long term. If you need to pay bills
once your business slows down or if you have a dry period, your bad
habits of procrastination can become an undesirable place to be.
Damage to Your Health
What are some of the physical health conditions or manifestations that
are associated with poor time management and procrastination?
1. Depression
2. Weight Loss
3. Weight Gain
4. Loss of Sleep (Insomnia, too much sleep)
5. Overeating

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6. Under eating
7. Emotional Instability
8. Paranoia
9. Frustration
10. Nausea, Upset Stomach


These are possibly some of the most common health problems that are
associated

with

procrastination.

There

are

surely

many

more,

dependent upon each individual and their tolerance levels, but many of
the 10 types listed above are experienced at least once by those who
are under significant stress.
Do you find that you are constantly and hurriedly on the go, trying
desperately to recover from all of the procrastinating you have done?
If you find that your personal relationships (friends, family, children,
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management as well, simply because you are not able to give them
the time that they so richly deserve.
What is the answer?
For one, it is far simpler to maintain a conceivable, working schedule
than it is to try and recover from any negative affects that result from
the delays and process of procrastination.
How are the physical effects related to procrastination and poor time
management?
When you experience one of these symptoms, you can end up in a
foggy, dazed state, simply existing and going from one point to
another not realizing or understanding how to remedy your situation.
When you are always oblivious or in a constant semi-alert state, you
are more prone to feeling more physical effects and experiencing more
physical conditions that not.
You also do not have the time to focus on these physical conditions,
since you are already distracted; therefore the process becomes like a
domino effect and keeps going and going and going. You can become
increasingly frustrated and tired as time goes on.
A person who has a traditional day job with set working hours may be
more likely to take time off work, or sick days, or even vacation days
to fully recover from their physical ailments.

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