Since I’ve been Hawaii I’ve found myself having much less work time and needing to find ways to spending less time working and more time bike riding, snorkling, and hiking. Thus, I needed to find a way to spend less time working, but get the same amount of work done, just with less time.

Ways I’ve reduced the time I spend at work
Some of the easiest ways to reduce time spent at work is simply by removing all those time wasters you get into the habit of each day. 1. Checking your email constantly 2. Watching YouTube Videos 3. Chatting constantly with friends 4. Getting up to make coffee or food

Other ways I’ve managed to reduce my time working is by bringing work with me. Siince I work online, often times than not I bring my laptop to the beach, write while sitting in a bus, using the time I would be sitting doing nothing and turning it into work time. Sure not everyone works online however.

The key to getting more work done with less time
As I said, just reduce time wasters, work during down time, and just focus on your work, rather than on everything else.

My Worst Jobs In Ranking of Worst to Best
1. Cashier – once at a clothes store, once for the Army in Stuttgart, Germany
2. Bagger at food store
3. Donut grease scraper (one of my first jobs, involved scraping all the grease out of a donut backery)
4. English Content Manager for a website
5. 711 Cashier/Stock (worked alone, but interesting customers)
6. Newspaper Delivery Guy (it was outdoors, couldn’t complain too much…
7. Groundsman for a Golf Course (a one day job)
8. Cafeteria Worker at my University (a fun job since it gave free food and lots of fellow friends)
9. Full time blogger (the best paid and the most relaxing)

By making my own top 9 list of jobs I’ve had over the years I can better judge what kind of work I actually like doing and it goes to show me that the more independent I can work, the happier I was at my job. Those jobs where someone is breathing down your neck, unless you have good co-workers, as with the instance of my cafeteria job, are usually not at all ideal.

Any job where you can be creative and work somewhat independently suits me best. Somewhere where I can utilize my skills daily, rather than being a being an corporate chimp, suite me best.

Any job where you find yourself repeating the same thing everyday with work that requires no new thinking, and something so easy a machine doing it is going to leave you unfulfilled and looking for something else.

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How Much Does Time Matter?
Does it matter whether I spent 1 hour or 10 minute writing this article?  All that matters is the end result.  If all my articles earn money, that’s the important thing.  Just because at your job you work overtime, doesn’t necessarily make you a better employee.  If your counterpart gets it done in half as much time, but gets paid less because they didn’t work overtime, aren’t you costing the company money?

What Do You Do When Working?
What most people call “working” is usually a day of work and distractions.  Do you check your email every hour, get up to get coffee, take phone calls?  All of these activities are not contributing to “work”.   It’s also important to seperate the amount of time you were actually “working” vs the time you spent doing non productive activities.

Students fall into this trap while studying.  They’ll be “studying” yet at the same time there is music playing, and constant phone interruptions.

Being More Productive
If you could cut out any extra distractions, and even minimize checking your email to twice a day, when you wake up, and when you finish work, think how much time you could save.  The trick is, putting what’s important first (what’s ultimately going to lead to you earning cash) first, and all those time wasting activities second.  It’s true that when are job is relatively boring we crave a little distraction, but doesn’t this make the job even longer?

Ways To Measure Your Time Working
Think of time as a set of tasks, working more doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll earn more money.  Extra time spent only makes sense if it’s necessary.

Remember productivity means getting more done in less time.  The more you work and waste time doing things unrelated is simply going to cut on your productivity time.

1. Getting More Free Time: Did you ever watch the TV just because you don’t have anything better to do? On the contrary… there are so many more productive things you can do. Try reading, cooking, even cleaning that messy room?

2. More Sleep?: You ever lose sleep over TV? I’ve often stayed up later to watch the TV, losing needful sleep in the process.

3. Lose Weight?: With the extra time, maybe you could productively work on losing weight? I’ve been one to sit on the couch, watch tv, and eat junk food, its the perfect unproductive combination.

4. Do Stuff On Your Time: Have you ever scheduled events around TV shows? If you can wait just one or two days, watch it online.

5. Thought Process: After ditching the tv, my thought process has improved without having to have the TV do the thinking for me…

1) Create multiple e-mail addresses for specific types of e-mail -I like to set my email up as wordpress@clickfornick.com, nick@familyemail.com, and have all my mail forwarding to one mailbox.

2) Check your email only once a day. Sounds hard, but if it’s an emergency, you’d probably get a call anyway right?

3) Set an auto response that tells those who emailed you that your mail is checked only at 3 pm (or anytime you prefer).

“I only check my mail at 3 pm. I will be checking my mail at this time and respond to your email in the order in which it was received”

By checking your mail more often, you aren’t doing much more than wasting your time. Check it less often and see how much more time you have left in your day.