THE 2-HOUR TIME TRICK

Find more time for yourself with this genius hack for making the most of your day

- Amber Bramble

Do you ever find yourself at the end of the day wondering where all those hours went? It's a common problem for many of us, but there are strategies that you can develop to stop wasting our most precious commodity - time! Productivity expert Donna McGeorge reveals how to set yourself up for success...

Traditional approaches to time management involve prioritising, planning, creating to-do lists and ticking off goals. Yet, despite all of this, if I were to ask you, 'How's work?, your response likely would be, 'Busy!' And along with busy, you would be feeling tired. They usually go hand in hand.

It's time to think differently about how we do time management. Here are the top five things you can do to overcome overwhelm, take back control and focus on what's important.

1 Manage time like you manage money

When we are truly managing our time, we are thinking about it as a valuable resource that we want to get the best return on. Like money, once time is gone, we are unable to get it back. Unlike money, we can't save it or store it, so we have to make the best use of every minute of the day.

Some people earn very little money and still manage to do a lot with it, and others who make a lot often don't have much to show for it. It's the same with time, except we all have the same amount of time. And some people seem to be able to achieve a lot more than others.