1. The Best Time Management Tips
for Your Accounting Practice
Written by Laura Berthiaume
Adapted from Chet Holmes Ultimate Sales Machine

2. The Time Management
Secret of Billionaires
• This is single-handedly the best time-
management strategy I’ve ever come across
• You need to spend 5 minutes every night on time
management but the payoff is huge and you’ll feel
so much more in control of your life

3. Step 1:
Determine what needs to get
done
• Start by writing down the 6 most important
tasks you must get done the next day

4. Step 2: Assign Time
• Next to each task assign an
amount of time to work on each task
• Each task shouldn’t be more than 1-1.5
hours, otherwise you’ll run out of time in the
day
• If a task is longer break it up into different
tasks

5. Step 3: Prioritize
• Prioritize and plan your day out with the
task list
• Prioritizing is important because you want to
ensure that you save the first two hours of
every day to do the 1-2 most important
(possibly dreaded) tasks
• This will guarantee that no matter how crazy
your day gets, you’ve finished the most
important things on your list

6. Notes
• You’ll also want to add in time on your
schedule to return phone calls, check emails
and have lunch
• Bonus if you share this section with your
employees and get them to implement it as
well, you’ll see a productivity boost in your
entire office

7. Dealing with phone calls
• Don’t be a slave to the phone and drop
everything for every single call that comes it
• You’ve created a schedule using the outlined
method and in that schedule, you allocated a
block of time to take and answer calls
• STICK TO IT and make sure your
administration does too

8. Managing Your Inbox
Click here for the detailed blog post on this
topic
1. Create labels and keep folders organized
2. Set specific times in your schedule to check your inbox
3. Don’t respond to messages that don’t require it
4. Only read emails you’re prepared to answer
5. Use your autoresponder
6. Click here for an outline to make email writing more
efficient (and how you can encourage others to do the
same)

9. Automate your email time tracking
• Don’t waste time pulling out your
timesheet after every email or trying to
estimate the amount of time
• Automatically track all the time you spend
reading and writing emails using Email
Stopwatch
• Click here to get it now