How do you start your day? Do you start your day from doing some unimportant and time-consuming tasks that take almost the half of your day? If it is so, then, you waste your time on some useless tasks instead of accomplishing some important ones, and as a result, you will fail to do them and won't reach the success in your life. Let's look through several techniques that can help you to start your day productively and save your time:

• Start from thinking about the goals you want to reach within the next few years and then think about the steps you need to take to reach them. Write down or type these steps and divide them into yearly, monthly and weekly goals, then you will be absolutely sure what you need to do and when.
• Plan your daily goals in advance (for ex.: on Sunday or on Monday morning) and list the steps you need to take to achieve your weekly goal(s).
• Plan exact period of time you need to spend on routine tasks (such as: e-mails, phone calls and messages, faxes and so on). Probably 30-40 minutes will be enough to look through this information to decide which of it is important for you today and which can be delayed.
• Don't plan to accomplish too many tasks during a day, be realistic. Write down the most important and urgent tasks of the day and set estimated time for each of them, so at the end of the day you can analyze the actual time that was spent on each of your tasks and get useful experience for future planning.

Using these techniques, you will see how much time you have during a day and will be able to start each new day productively.

Also, one of the most important things is to choose the type of planner you will use for keeping your goals. The most appropriate type of planners is software (like VIP Team To Do List). VIP Team To Do List is software which allows to create multiple databases (in which you will keep your tasks and goals), set priorities, set deadlines, add notes to your goals, and set reminder, so you won't forget about the task you need to accomplish. Also, if you want to delegate some of your tasks to other person, VIP Team To Do List allows you to send this task to the definite person via e-mail., so, you will never feel yourself overwhelmed.

As you can see, by using VIP Team To Do List with the techniques above you will learn how to save your time and achieve the things you want to accomplish much faster. All you need to do is to try!

See also: Make your goals SMART