Which One Is Appropriate?
Before we dive into our bucket of time, I want you to be clear about the concepts of being effective and being efficient. There is a fundamental difference here and again, if you take some time to know how they impact what you do and how you achieve your results, it will help you in your management of time.
It is not a matter of which one is best, but rather which one is appropriate for the situation. The priority of the situation is determined by your list of priorites and tasks.
Being Efficient
When you are efficient, you are doing things right. The more efficient you are, the more precise you are and the less errors and mistakes you make.
Efficiency highlights your competence and your ability to work with minimum wasted resources and expenses. You are able to achieve maximum productivity.
If you are highly efficient in writing your blog posts, you are able to do so with minimum errors and quickly. You do not allow yourself to be distracted and you are able to focus and structure your post to achieve your outcome.
Efficiency is a skill that you develop and master with practice. It does not happen over night. If you want to be an efficient blogger, you have to write consistently - every day. There is no short-cut.
Being Effective
Being effective means that you are not just doing something well but you are also doing it at the right time. You are performing appropriately for the demands of your situation.
You can be a highly efficient receptionist. However, if a client walks into the office and you refuse to acknowledge him/her until you have finished reading the brief on your desk, are you being effective?
The answer is, no.
Whilst you were being efficient working on your brief, the nature of your role demands that you quickly adapt and reprioritise, giving priority to your client who just walked in. If you do not, you will risk being called rude and uninterested. This may result in you losing your client or your job!
Similarly, you can be efficient and write 100 error-free blogs but, if no one wants to read them, you will not be effective in achieving your desired goals to have visitors to your website.
So remember, you will be required to have some measure of flexibility as you work through your day. Knowing this will avoid you viewing changes as unnecessary interruptions. You will be able to quickly make decisions to allow you to move along easily and keep on track.
Always thinking of you Cassi. first it was for friendship, and we encourage each other, now it is for filling in parts of me, so I can understand and begin to make a plan of implementation.
Thank you, Cassi, You have my heart and I so appreciate you!
Suzay
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I'm lucky I can take my computer to work with me and do an hours research during quiet times, using my bosses internet to answer my long list of emails or start typing up my blog in word. If I have five minutes I'm on my phone checking emails. After work, is for emails.
Thanks Cassie
You are very organised and I am sure that it makes a big difference to your results.
Thank you very much for reading the tutorial and for sharing.
Cassi
Of course that will take vision and planning for your future. Only you can do that for yourself, WA has the tools.
It will take treating Quality Time like what it is, an ephemeral jewel, like a drop of water on a leaf.
If you don't get it moving"she" will be gone! Time, you just got to make her sure that she's welcome.
Suzay
Suzay
Thanks again for this training.
I am in a similar situation ,single father of two adult sons (22 and one18 to become in November) and combining my online business with a day job. So time management is something I really have to do. I am glad to see that I do the same as you ,writing things down I use daily notepapers.
In the beginning it was hard to see I could not get done all things, but as I grow into it, I also shifted mindset and was more happy to cross of things then worried about things not done.
As you said we all have the same 24 hours, as long I know the things that should be done (priorities) are done ,the rest I reschedule. It works for me, actually getting more things done ,when I started making my daily notepapers of what to do.
Well wishes,
Luc
I have someone to reach out to who will understand the road I am travelling on. 🙂
You are very correct about what may seem to be a simple strategy of writing things down.
That brain-body connection makes a BIG difference.
Thank you very much for doing the tutorial and for sharing.
Do have an enjoyable Sunday.
Cassi
