By allowing your time to waste away, you are effectively denying yourself a life of abundance which you could be enjoying if you were able to use this time productively. The fact of the matter is that many people have fallen into the habit of letting their time be wasted by a variety of things. Here is a list of 10 time wasters and if you find that these are some of the things which are eating away at your time then my advice to you as a Wealth Creator is that you should seriously consider changing some of these habits.
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Television – Television can be very relaxing and enjoyable, but unfortunately in our modern society it has become one of the biggest time wasters of all time. I am not saying that you should never watch television, but try not to let it dictate the schedule of your life by making you plan your day around what time your favorite shows are on. If there are more important things to do which will bring you closer to a life of abundance, then rather give the television a skip.
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Telephone calls – Telephones are an essential part of our modern communication strategy, but allowing your time to waste away spending excessive time simply chatting on the phone also robs us of a great deal of time which could have been used more productively. Try to keep calls restricted as to the time you spend on them and avoid taking social calls while you are trying to focus on the project at hand.
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Time wasting worry – Worry is another one of our big time wasters, if something is causing you to worry, go after it, make a plan to overcome it and remove the worry factor. Too many people will sit and worry about something to the point that they are unable to concentrate on anything else. I believe you should act in the true spirit of a Wealth Creator and take action so as to be able to remove the worry, this way it will eat up far less of your time.
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Essential planning – Much time is wasted because people are not working to a decisive and detailed plan. I teach my Wealth Creators Mentorship students that to become financially free and have a life of abundance, you need to be driven and have definite goals which you need to achieve to receive this life of abundance. Be sure to take the time to make a list of your goals for the day and address them according to their importance. Not having a set daily plan leaves us wasting much of our time trying to figure out what it is that we should actually be doing.
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Daydreaming – I am a great believer in having dreams so as to be able to bring them into reality, but when these dreams become daydreams because you are spending so much time dreaming that you forget to take action so as to bring them into reality, then you are wasting time and bringing yourself nothing but illusive dreams as you are breaking the Formula for Riches by not actually putting in the TEM$ so as to bring your dreams into reality. Have dreams but always be sure to take the action which will help to bring them into reality.
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Gaming – Now this has got to be one of the time wasters which is beginning to steal more and more of our time and there is an entire subculture allowing their time to be stolen in this way. No, there is nothing wrong with relaxing while playing a video game, but limit this time and do not allow yourself to fall prey to this time waster.
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Hobbies – Hobbies are a good thing, that is, until we allow them to get out of hand. There are many people who become obsessed with their hobbies and allow them to affect the time where they should actually have been productive. Schedule times for your hobbies and don’t allow them to interfere with what it is that you need to be doing so as to achieve your goals.
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Meetings – Meeting may well be an essential part of business life, but they can also be one of the biggest time wasters around. Very often meetings are held which have little or no effect on our business and are actually simply filled with useless bantering. Try to set time limits to your meetings and make sure that all participants stick to the agenda at hand, this way you will avoid wasting a lot of your time.
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Internet surfing – A lot of time is often wasted by people pointlessly surfing the internet. Yes, the internet can be a very powerful business tool, but it is the type of surfing which has no reason or purpose relating to your goals which can quite easily rob you of valuable time.
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Commuting – What with the roads getting busier and busier by the day, a lot of our time is wasted in traffic, try to make this time as productive as you possibly can. Try to perhaps do mental planning for your day or address issues and ways to solve them while you are traveling, this way your commuting time will not completely be a waste of time.
You should now be able to realize how easily we allow these types of time waster to have a negative effect on our productivity and by changing a couple of your own habits, you will find that very soon you will have far more time on your hands to concentrate on the things which actually count and will bring you closer to a life of financial freedom and being able to do more of the things that you want to do, rather than have to do.