Saving Time In Your Day Challenge

This month's challenge is about saving time. And, figuring out where you are spending too much time. It could be doing bills. Or maybe figuring out what meals will be served this week. It could be cleaning the house. Any task that takes away from your enjoyment of life is what we will be focusing on this month.

Saving Time Daily Challenge

There are many areas in our life that we overlook and think our time is being the most effective as possible. But, in actuality, we could be wasting time on mundane tasks when we could be spending more time with our family members or enjoying tasks we love.

The challenge this month is to figure out where you can save time in your life. You may be asking, "why should I do this challenge?" There are many benefits to saving time. Here are 3 major benefits.

Benefits of saving time:

1. Having a more fulfilled life. This could include spending more time with loved ones and allow you time to do tasks that make you happy and help you enjoy your life.
2. Keeping more money in your pocket. There are areas in your life that you may not realize you are overspending.  This could be buying lunch every day instead of bringing a healthy meal from home. Not planning for dinner and making a quick stop to the grocery store every evening for a prepared dish.
3. Making more space in your day for downtime.  Wouldn't it be nice to be able to do nothing for at least an hour or two in your day?  By doing this challenge, it will give you the flexibility to manage your day and add the downtime you deserve.

The first part of the challenge: Answer these questions to find out what areas to make more effective.

1. What are my strongest skills?
2. Which tasks take me over 1 hour to do?
3. What tasks make me happy after I complete them?
4. If I had enough money to hire someone to help me, which task would I take off my plate?

Here is a free printable for finding ways to save time in your day.  

I added four common tasks we all need to review but feel free to add more tasks. In the next column, add different ways you can speed up the task.  For example, in the paying bills section, you can decide to add more autopay accounts, so you do not need to write checks manually. In the "due date to implement the changes" section, there is a place to write your determined deadline to complete this speed up the task. Filling this in will help you stay on top of the task and get it done.

Remember: the sooner the deadline the quicker you will free up your time.

The second part of the challenge:

For one week, write down all the tasks you have completed, how long you estimated to do the task, and how long it actually took you to complete it. Jot down notes that may have prolonged the task in the note section. Don't forget the small tasks that take less than 15 minutes.

Here is a time estimation sheet you can print from Sabrina's Admin Services Blog. Click on the link and read about project time estimation tips. 

That's it for this month!  I hope this helps you find time in your day that you can easily improve.  Please share in the comment section below what challenges you found that were most difficult for these tasks.  I would love to hear from you. 

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