Stretch a Year to 54 weeks

Save 15 minutes a day, and you will gain two extra weeks a year.

How do you find the time to achieve everything you want to? Suppose you were suddenly given the gift of two extra weeks each year to do anything you wanted. How would you spend this time?

This gift is not a fantasy. Eliminating just 15 minutes each day adds up to 91 extra hours a year – more than two full work weeks.

Here are some simple ways to achieve this “miracle”.

1) Do the right things
Don’t confuse activity with accomplishment. There is no point doing well what you shouldn’t be doing at all. Make the hard decisions about what you want and need to do. Then do them right. Future does not hold limitless time to undo or redo something done poorly.

2) Pace yourself
Don’t try to squeeze in everything you need and hope to do in one day. Be realistic! Underbooking will actually allow you to achieve more.

3) Block-book
Set your high-priority items.

4) Multi-task
Combining or piggybacking tasks make you more efficient. Do few things which you can do at one time. Example, when you plan to meet someone, do it in a place where you can accomplish while you are waiting.

5) Confirm
Save yourself hours of wasted time by confirming all appointments and flights. Yes, it takes time to confirm, but the payback can be enormous.

6) Do it now
One of the biggest time-wasters is waiting to do something until it doesn’t matter any more. People are usually paid to get results, not to be perfect. Decide to do it. Don’t waste your time on regrets or rehashing decisions, justifying bad ones or salvaging poor time investments that ought to be written off.

Use the past as a guide for the future, not as an excuse for not dealing with it. There you are! You have just save yourself weeks of time. What will you do with it?