Getting started with time management can seem like a daunting task.

There are hundreds of books, and even thousands of apps available to help you with your productivity. Yet, improving your time management doesn’t have to be complicated nor difficult.

Today, I have 10 top tips for beginners at time management. (Or for those that want to improve!)

Your work hard to get your work done.

However, sometimes you toil hard only to find that your most important tasks still don’t get done.

You are getting many things done, just not the important ones.

What will it take to get those top to-dos to done?

How productive are you?

Productivity isn’t busyness.  Time Management isn’t about doing more.

So how do you measure your productivity?

Measuring Productivity

I write about time management and productivity all the time, giving you the tips and tools to increase your productivity.  So how are you doing?  Do you know how productive you are?

Today I’m sharing a tool that will allow you to actually measure your productivity. This online quiz asks you a series of questions about productivity, and you answer according to your own habits and systems. At the end, you’ll get a productivity score — AND find out exactly what you need to do to improve.

Improving your productivity allows you to spend less time at the office, because you’re getting more done while you’re there.  It’s allows you to take back your life.  And now there’s finally a quiz that will show you the areas where you need to improve, and provide the help to get there.

Take the Quiz

New York Times best-selling author Michael Hyatt has developed this — and it’s free!

It provides you with the opportunity to answer a series of ten questions around key areas of productivity. The tool then calculates your answers and gives you an overall productivity score.

The whole process takes less than ten minutes. It will give you the clarity you need to walk the path toward greater effectiveness and success.

Once you discover your Productivity Score, you can quickly see opportunities for growth, as well as what you’re already doing well.

So go take the assessment now.  Then come back and let me know how you did.

Question: How did you score on the productivity quiz? Do you agree with the assessment? You can leave a comment by clicking here.

​Disclosure: Michael and I have known each other for many years, having met when we were both speaking at a conference. I am an affiliate for his Free to Focus course.

Someone recently said to me, “I don’t need time management. I can’t even get done what I have now, why would I want to do more in my day?”

A common misconception about time management is that it is all about doing more. Cramming too many tasks into your day. And that to be productive you need to madly rush about doing as much as possible.

Yet, time management should do just the opposite. It should let you accomplish more while doing less, while at the same time giving you more time back.

Have you ever come out of a meeting and asked yourself, “What did we just do in there?”

Perhaps, you can’t recall what the meeting was supposed to be about in the first place. Or the meeting devolved into a discussion about the boss’s latest vacation. Or maybe the meeting ended up lasting 45 minutes longer than scheduled and now your schedule is totally off for the rest of the day.

If you don’t want to come out of meetings scratching your head as to what just happened, then make sure you are clear before you begin.