Entrepreneurs are quite busy people. As a result, balancing the various tasks and personal responsibilities can be quite challenging. This post will teach just anyone how to keep a daily schedule in the most effective way. Consequently, you can manage your time better, become more efficient, and ultimately boost productivity.

Start by Figuring out How Your Typical Day Goes

A helpful way to figure out how you typically spend your day is to track your constant activities. You can dedicate one day or a whole week to track and record how your typical day would normally go. From the time you wake up till the time you go to bed, keep a record of all your tasks and activities.

Prioritize Your Tasks and Activities

After you have carefully tracked and recorded your day to day tasks and activities, the next step is to arrange those tasks based on their order of importance. You should start from the most important to the least important. Your most important tasks are the ones that are targeted at reaching your goal – whether it is the goal to lose weight, read a book in a week, increase business sales, or get enough exercise every week.

One of the best ways to order your activities and tasks based on their order of importance is to group them into categories. Such criteria would include Very High, High, Medium, Low, Not Important. This will help you determine what tasks or activities to channel the most attention, time, and resources to.

Find out Your Most Productive Hours

Also, it is important to identify your most productive time or hours of the day when scheduling your day. This way, you would know the tasks to handle during those hours that you are most productive. These may be the most demanding tasks in terms of the skills/brainstorming required, the amount of time required, and the sensitivity of such tasks.

For most people, the morning hours are their most productive times of the day. If you fall into this category, you should consider going to bed early, so that you can get enough sleep and wake up early to start your day. So, you should take note of your highly productive hours when making your daily schedule. This will help you apportion time to your daily tasks in the most appropriate manner.

Minimize Time Wasted

There are a couple of ways to cut back time wasted. For instance, you can identify the activities that do not contribute to your goals and cut them off. For instance, avoid people who come around just to engage you in irrelevant chat. While it is good to slot in time for recreation and rest in your schedule, such rest time shouldn’t be spent on idle talks.

Take advantage of these tips to schedule your day to day tasks appropriately.

Daven Michaels is a New York Times Best Selling Author and CEO of premiere global outsourcing company, 123Employee. The company employs hundreds of young bright individuals on three continents. His International event, Beyond Marketing Live! Inspires entrepreneurs to build & grow their business with revolutionary new theories and systems allowing them to design the business and personal lifestyle of their dreams