Hack Your Task + Time Management Once And For All

If you’re a business owner in the Health, Perinatal, or Parenting space, I know after a day of helping your clients - you’re tired.

The work you do is mentally taxing, you’re an empathetic person, and very often, you’re overworked.

The Importance of Effective Task + Time Management

So, once you end your day, you don’t want to have to worry about all of the things that you didn’t get done. You’re past the point of wanting to work 7 days a week, even if it is on your business that you love.

You’re ready for some space so you can spend time doing what you love with the people who matter most. To do that, you need your time management locked in.

5 Essential Time Management Techniques

I’m going to give you 5 tips that you might incorporate into your daily life to tighten up your time - but the last one is a must.

1. Pomodoro Technique

Break your work into intervals (usually 25 minutes), followed by a short break. After four intervals, take a longer break.

2. Time Blocking

Allocate specific blocks of time to different tasks or categories of work. Multi-tasking is not the vibe.

3. Eisenhower Matrix

Prioritize tasks into four quadrants.

👉Urgent and important

👉Important but not urgent

👉Urgent but not important

👉Neither urgent nor important

4. Eat the Frog

Tackle the most challenging or important task first thing in the morning so it's done.

Okay.. this works lovely for some + terribly for others.

If the idea of starting with the most daunting task will lead you to not start at all, switch this around. (Names for this welcome haha). Start with something easy so you can gain some momentum, and then do the hard thing.

Work with your brain!

5. Batching

Group similar tasks together and complete them during designated time blocks to minimize context switching.

The Must-Have: A Task + Project Management System

Remember I said the last one was a non-negotiable? It truly is if you want a resource that is going to last and grow with you and your business.

The first five “hacks” are all icing on top of the cake.

Why Choose Asana for Task + Project Management?

There are a multitude of different project management systems to choose from. But I run my businesses (and client businesses) from Asana.

Asana is a task and project management system that is both robust but not overwhelming to non-techy business owners (AKA a LOT of business owners in the Health, Perinatal, and Parenting space).

Organize Everything with Asana

In Asana, you can organize your:

• Admin + business HQ

• Home life

• Content (posts, newsletters, blogs, etc) and all the resources that go along with that

• Launching and promotional periods

• Lead tracking

• Higher-level, yearly planning

Benefits of Using Asana for Time Management

Tasks are no longer going to take up your mental space. In Asana, you’ll have reminders of one-off and recurring tasks.

Asana is perfect whether it’s just you in your business or if you have one or multiple team members. It’s going to be your new business BFF.

Get Started with Asana Today

Asana is free, so you can go download it right now and get started! The thing we don’t want is for your project management system to be a digital pen and paper. Instead, we want it to be a centralized hub and resource for your business.

Optimize Your Asana with VIP Days

Shameless plug - If you don’t want to spend your time learning how to make it more than a digital pen and paper, I offer Asana VIP Days!

I’ve set up Asana as a resource for businesses in the health, perinatal, and parenting space. I know what you need to make this a useful resource for your business.

A Done-in-a-Day Asana Setup

A fully customized task and project management system tailored to YOUR business. If you’re ready to…

• Actually meet the deadlines you set for yourself. You know, launching that thing you’ve been trying to get out there for months.

• Be proactive instead of reactive.

• Complete your to-do list each day.

• Get crystal clear on your daily priorities (Ensuring those money-making, CEO-level tasks are getting done).

• Have peace of mind that your business is organized and you’re in a position to grow and scale.

• If applicable, collaborate efficiently with your team and utilize online service providers effectively.

Task + time management is crucial for growth

There are more and less exciting parts of being an entrepreneur. I fully understand that task + time management is low on the excitement factor. BUT, if you want to scale and grow your business - it’s something you need to revisit and get under wraps.

Time is our most precious resource, making the most of it is important! When you’re sitting down to work, you want to be productive and use that time effectively. (Catching up on work after bedtime or on the weekends because you weren’t productive during work time isn’t the vibe).

So, start with these tips. See what works best for you. If you don’t already have a task and project management system, download Asana and play around with it! And of course, if you want help to set it up as THE resource for your business, reach out! I’d love to help.

Hope this helps!

Alison

Systems + Marketing Manager for established online businesses in the Health, Perinatal and Parenting space.