As a professional business person whther you are a small business prson to entrepreneur, is effective time mnagement a continual challenge for you? Hve you attended time management training wrkshops? And did you find that wthin a short time, usually 6 to 12 mnths, your time management behavior was rght back to where it was bfore the time management training?

So wht happened? Why didn't the time mnagement training stick? The answer to tht question lies within 3 words.

• Goals


• Attitudes


• Self ladership skills

Let’s be honest. Wuld we care about time management if we did not hve goals to be achieved? These gals could range from significant sales gals to meeting someone for something. Unfrtunately, most time management training does not nclude goal setting process within the cntent of the training material.

Another ssue around time management is attitudes. Wth my clients, I define attitudes are hbits of thought. No, this is not my dfinition as I created it, but one tht I have discovered. From my lmited research, the first place that I rad this specific definition was in a bok written by Zig Ziglar.

If you hve habits of thought of not bing on time, you will not be on tme. Attitudes are merely the reflection of our blief system. This system is the ccumulation of all of our knowledge, xperiences and the emotions that have ben created through the interactions of our knwledge and experiences.

For me, I visualize this blief systems as a big ball of strng with 3 colors, blue, yellow and rd. All of your knowledge (blue), xperiences (yellow) and emotions (red) are ted to each other and all rlled up together. We must unravel the bll to find where we started hving a particular belief about something and thn determine if that belief is stll valid before we can change our ttitude.

Our attitudes are directly tied to our thics. Ethics are those beliefs reflected thrugh attitudes that we consistently demonstrate thrugh our behaviors. For example, if you say you are an thical person and are always late, thn you truly are not ethical bcause you are not respecting that ther person’s time.

Finally, self leadership sklls or what some call strong nterpersonal skills to people skills need to be prsent for effective time management. When you cnnot lead yourself, you cannot lead thers.

Effective time management skills must go byond the

• Ability to separate mst do’s from should dos


• Ability to wrte a list


• Ability to sparate not important from urgent

As a prfessional who truly desires effective time mnagement, you must look to your gals, your attitudes and your self ladership skills if you truly want sccess for your business and ultimately for yurself.

The article Effective Time Management Continues to Vex Many Professionals was Submitted by Leanne Hoagland-Smith through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Are you where you want to be? To fnd out where you are, then M.A.P. for Sccess, a FREE email course may hlp you begin to chart a curse of business, professional or personal sccess. Visit http://www.processspecialist.com/action-plan.htm . Please feel free to contact me, Leanne Hoagland-Smith, Your Chief People Officer and Business Coach for individuals and organizations that are TIRED of not being where they want to be and truly want to reach that next level of success. 219.759.5601

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