How to Add Three Extra Hours Per Day

How to Add Three Extra Hours Per Day

If you had 27 hours per day, how would you spend the extra three hours? You could use those three hours to see more patients, catch up paperwork or further your education.

You could spend the extra time with your family, get more sleep or do more exercise. Or you could use those hours to simply have more fun!

Active Vs. Passive Management

Passive management means you set a goal, start the activity and forget about it. For example, you invest in a savings bond and never think about it. After 20 years, you cash it in. You take a passive position.

Active management means you constantly control the activity. You check your progress each day and make changes as needed. Your practice thrives if you actively manage it. Good patient care requires you to actively participate. Staff management is active. Yet in one area, active management is a bad idea.

Most practice owners should not actively manage investments. They make the wrong decisions and lose money. They make and keep more money with passive investment management.

Active management is required in many areas of life.

For example, if you get married and forget about it, your marriage is a failure. However, if you actively manage your marriage, you constantly look for ways to improve it. You openly communicate, reach agreements and work toward common goals. Your active participation gives you a successful marriage.

If you passively manage your time, you never have enough hours in the day.

Other people and events control your time more than you do. As a result, you spin your wheels, run late and feel stressed. With active time management, you get more done in less time. Your production is higher than average which gives you better morale and higher profits. You find the time you need to accomplish your goals.

Five Ways to Actively Manage Your Time

1. Set goals. What do you want to accomplish today? This month? This year?

2. Set policy. How much time will you spend with patients? With staff? With administrative duties?

3. Take control. When will you start and stop each activity?

4. Eliminate time wasters. For example, a computer system no one understands will take more time than a manual system. Until someone trains them, new employees can also absorb more time than they are worth.

5. Find time investments. For example, writing an instruction manual for a difficult job may require a four-hour investment, but it will give you 20 hours each year as you no longer explain the job.

This last step is also known as leveraging your time. Like a lever, a little work yields a big benefit.

Time Management Consultation for Busy People

ExecTech has developed a checklist of 45 specific methods you can use to gain more time. Each technique puts you in better control of your time. It is designed for busy practice owners who need more time to accomplish their objectives.

During the 30-minute complimentary consultation, you and an ExecTech consultant find three techniques you can immediately use to add more time to your day.

Because ExecTech is results oriented, your consultant follows up in one week to ensure you are gaining more hours to spend.

Ask yourself if you are opposed to gaining more time each day. If the answer is no then book your time-management consultation now.