While you can attend a seminar on managing time, and perhaps it would be helpful, you can get started right away to do certain things that are likely to give you "more" time in your life.

The trick is learning a technique to manage the time you do have, by learning a system for stretching the moments. Hopefully this article will give you a tip or two to help.

Spend Some Time

A good rule of thumb is nine hours for sleep (which includes getting ready for bed, plus any rituals that you do in the mornings, like showers etc.), eight - eleven hours for work (depending on the length of your commute), and the rest for your other interests. Many people do not allocate enough time for sleep. This is one of the costliest errors, you can make as being sleep deprived can and will diminish the quality of everything else in your life.

There are several mind sets you tend to get into the can impede your management of time. One of them is "I'd rather be doing something else." The best way to overcome this is to allow yourself the time that you want to do an activity as a reward for completing a task that you're not very motivated to do. Thinking about the pleasure you'll get after the task is completed, and sometimes enough to get you through doing it.

As an example, you can go to that movie you've been wanting to see after you've cleaned the bathroom room like you've been promising yourself.

Prioritize

Another mind set is feeling as if starting a project is an exercise in futility, so why even bother starting? There is a skill involved with being able to "chunk" or break up projects into manageable pieces, and it's pretty simple to learn.

A good tool for chunking time management is a master list. Start by brainstorming as it gives you a chance to write down everything you've wanted to accomplish. Make a list for business and for home, and then break it up by priority, and then by time completion. You can make the master list while you have your coffee in the morning or during your commute. If your commute a short or you work out of your home. Go ahead and make sure you set aside 20 minutes for half an hour to do this each day until it's done.

Write down everything that you can think of, it doesn't have to be realistic. When you rework the list to a project with small manageable tasks.

Be sure to complete the tasks that you don't want to do first, so you can get them out of the way. You may want to interspersed them with some tasks you do want if possible to break it up a bit. Cross off items as they are completed to get a sense of satisfaction at the end of the day. Doing the list exercise at home will be good training for getting tasks that you'd rather not do-- done.