Of course there are many more ways you can save time and buy back minutes and hours of your life to spend doing things you love!

The aim of this book has been to help you to understand the principles of saving time – as well as to understand why saving time is so important and so useful. You can then apply those principles yourself to get the desired effects.

But likewise, let’s finish up by looking at a few more strategies you can use to save a little more time…

1 Team up

If there’s a job you are spending too much time on and someone else is doing a similar job – why not share the burden? For example, get your friend to do your weekly shop every other week and you do there’s. It takes less time to add things to a cart if you’re already out than it does to go shopping twice as often!

2 Order online

To be fair though, the best way to save yourself this time is simply to order your regular shopping online. You’d be surprised just how many of your things you can get on a standing order and just how much time this can save you!

3 Eat the same lunch and breakfast

While it’s fun to eat different, exciting meals every dinner time – your breakfast and lunch are really just practical meals. Why not save yourself time and ‘decision fatigue’ by having set meals at these times. It also makes shopping easier and makes it easier to manage your diet!

4 Time yourself

We often go slow in the mornings when leaving the house as well as when washing up. An easy way to speed yourself up is to set a timer and to try and beat your best times when you do these kinds of tasks.

5 Check email at set times during the day

If you are checking your email throughout the day, then you will be ‘responsive’ in answering those messages. Instead, try to stay proactive by avoiding your email until set points during the day.

6 Make lists

Lists save time by giving you a clear set of tasks/goals to carry out in a set period of time.

 

7 Buy in bulk

One more shopping related tip: buy in bulk! This is an easy way to reduce trips and to reduce those annoying times you spend searching for more batteries.

8 Get your kids to chores

We discussed outsourcing earlier and the ideal people to outsource to around the home are your children! Get them to sweep the drive, wash the car and more for pocket money. Don’t have kids? Hire the neighbors!

9 Make sure your computer is fast

We waste an inordinate amount of time waiting for our laptops to turn on and for programs to launch. Either replace your laptop with something speedy (look for a SSD harddrive) or clean your old one up!

10 Wake up 10 minutes earlier

And go to bed ten minutes later. I promise you, you’ll make better use of those 10 minutes in the morning than the 10 minutes you had in the evening!

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