With the extra time you saved, you can spend it with your family and friends to wind down and relax. Life is not just about work.

Here is a very useful tip on time management for the online business owner:

Tip #3 – Laser Focus
This very important. I have seen this time management tip save people 3 hours a day before. It is very effective yet seen as too simple to be true.When you work online, you will no doubt have a lot of communication software or gadgets turned on. These include your emails, chatting software (MSN, Yahoo Messenger, Skype), cell phone and telephone. These are excellent tools which distracts you from your work and make you spend twice as much time working than needed.

For example, if you are writing an article you could be distracted by an email 15 minutes after working on it. You will start reading the emails and replying to some which are not urgent. You spend 10 minutes or so on this task and then get back to your writing.Well did you know that reading your emails in the middle of doing a task can eat up a lot of your time? Writing an article will normally take 45 minutes of your time. If you start checking your emails in the middle of it, you can easily take 1.5 hours to finish writing the article.

The reason is, when you are distracted with checking your emails, it will take you at least 15 minutes to get back into the level of concentration you were before you stopped.You have to gather your thoughts again and understand where you left off. This 10 minute of checking emails is actually taking 25-30 minutes of your time.

The same applies to other distractions such as chatting software, answering a phone call etc? If you want to save time then switch off all these communication and focus on completing the task on hand. You will find that you can get a lot more done when you work at it 100% with no distractions. If you apply this technique as a working habit, it will help you save many hours of work.

We spend a lot of hours on work which is not necessary. We think we are busy but in fact, we are just multi-tasking several things and some being unimportant. By laser focusing on completing your important tasks, you will eliminate a lot of unneeded tasks which doesn’t contribute to your business such as checking email several times a day.

Get into the habit of checking your emails twice a day. Once in the morning and once at night. Youwil find that it is more than enough.

If you want to be more effective, check out this free webinar, it’s offer by one of my mentor – Alex Jeffreys