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Posted over 1 year ago

How Do You Find Time to Start Investing in Self-Storage?

Most people fill every minute of every day with something. Whether that is work, entertainment, family time, or personal time, your time is full. However, not everything that you do will help you achieve the goals that you ultimately want to achieve. In order to be effective with your time, you need to make sure that you are using it as productively as possible.

One of the first things that you need to do when you are trying to decide where to allot your time is a time audit. If you don’t know where you are spending your time, then you can’t cut the things that aren’t effective. Spend a week tracking everything that you do. If you find that you need to get a better picture of where you spend your time, track two weeks or even a month. Once you have your time audit completed, then you can determine what you are doing with your day.

As you are evaluating your time spent, are there any patterns where you can be more effective? Are there any areas where you are wasting time or doing things that aren’t as lasting as you wish they were. For example, if you find that you are watching a lot of TV from 5 to 9 p.m. you may want to shift that TV time to later in the day when you are more tired. Use the earlier time to get things done that you can’t get done later in the evening.

Another strategy that you may want to implement after you have done your time audit is to determine how you can be more effective with the time that you do have. What are some things that you can delegate? Many potential investors stay trapped because they work for less than $10 an hour. They don’t mean to, but they do things that can be hired out. This is a way to free up more time too. If you are constantly being distracted by things that you can delegate, you will find that your entire life is spent doing unimportant things.

Do a time audit and find out where you are spending your time so that you can be more efficient. Once you know where you are spending your time, you will know what you can cut so that you can make time for your investing. As always, happy investing.



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