How to improve your time management

1. Tidy your office, throw out what you don't need, get filing up to date and have a clean desk.

2. Keep documents to one page, get off mailing lists, reject junk mail, screen phone calls, learn to use software correctly and cancel unnecessary subscriptions.

3. Channel day dreaming into something that productive – give yourself a definite time and place to meditate each day and just one subject to muse on. .

4. At the start or end of each day plan tomorrow's activities with a to-do list and rank in order of priority.

5. Good planning includes establishing objectives, determining resources, assigning accountability, action plans, deadlines and review points. Assess progress at the same time each day.

6. Keep meetings to a minimum but when they are held stick to an agenda and a time frame.

7. At the end of each day have 15 to 20 minutes where you sit back and reflect on the day and how you could have done it better.

8. Don't put off for tomorrow what you can complete today.

9. If you have to wait in someone's outer office for an appointment take a book, your computer or work you can scan while waiting.

10. Delegate or outsource that which is not imperative for you to do.