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Creating extra hours - get up early!
This is an extremely simple way of creating more time, but is intensely effective. If you get up one hour early for a year, you have effectively created around 10 additional working weeks!An important thing to realise is that when you are at work as an employee, however much you are paid, your work enriches someone else. Even if your work creates huge profits you will only see a small proportion of this coming back as pay rises.
When you work at home on your own projects then this work directly enriches you. You gain all the profits your work creates. Most people fail to even attempt to enrich themselves in this most effective way.
The trick behind this is to get into the routine of getting up at a specific time: the first time you haul yourself out of bed before dawn will be painful, but every following time will be easier. Eventually you may reach a stage where you are awake and ready to move just as your alarm clock goes off.
You may find that you are tired for a few weeks, but in time your body will adjust. If necessary go to bed a little earlier.
Highly Recommended Books
For an excellent book on time management, try Beyond Time Management: Business With Purpose by Robert J Wright.
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