The Time Savers

Telephone - Telephones can save you hours. Never do in person what you can
accomplish on the phone. There are times when only personal contact will do,
but most often things can be handled with a phone call or two. The time of
traveling to another location is saved, and it is usually easier to end a call once
the subject has been completed.
Computers are great time savers. While millions of people use computers,
only a very small percentage get the full benefit from them. Computers can do
almost any kind of office work faster and better that someone can do it
manually. They are also perfect for repetitive tasks because they can be setup
to repeat a task easily.
Fax machines can save you time by enabling the sending of important
documents to another location, even across the country, promptly.
Email is a great timesaver and sometimes underutilized. In addition to sending
messages promptly, anywhere in the world, email is great for transporting
documents. By zipping and converting files to a .pdf format, you can send almost
anything by email.
Efficient Filing Systems save many hours of searching. Whether dealing
with paper files or computer data, an efficient and easy to understand filing
system helps you find files promptly.

Doing More than One Thing at a Time - Have you ever gotten impatient with
someone only to hear that they can only do one thing at a time. While it may be true
for them, it doesn’t have to be true for you. There are many occasions when you can
do more than one thing at a time. Here are just a few personal examples and you can
probably come up with several others.

Multitask - Some of my ebooks are sold on CDs. It takes a little time to burn a
CD so I never just sit down to burn them. Instead, I do it while working on
something else. I start a CD run and then work on other things on my computer
at the same time. When one CD is finished I simply take it out, put in the next
one, and continue working on the second project.
Handle Calls - Part of my business requires me to work on computers. While
working on computers, calls will come in. I never ignore these calls but I don’t
stop working on the computer. I answer the phone using the speaker and I can
talk and work on the computer at the same time.
Exercise - We all need exercise each day. If you have to move from one place
to another, move faster than normal. If you take an elevator up and down just a
couple of floors, take the steps instead. When you consider waiting for the
elevator, the time used will be same but you will be getting some valuable
exercise at the same time.
Read - When traveling, take some papers you have to read, some writing, or
your laptop so that you can spend part of the travel time getting ahead on your
priority items.
Business Lunch - Conduct business over lunch. You are going to have lunch
anyway, why not take care of some business at the same time? No matter who
pays, if handled correctly, it will save time.

The Challenge - If you think about it, there are probably several ways that you can
do more than one thing at a time. Think of it as a challenge and it will make things
more enjoyable while accomplishing much more.

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