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In this episode of the Start Teaching Guitar podcast, I’ll share some good tips on how to plan, prioritize and manage your to-do list so you can spend more time growing your teaching business.
I go into MUCH greater detail about each item in the podcast, but here’s a rough outline for you:
Time Management Tips for Busy Guitar Players
1) Managing Your Time
- Plan out your days in advance
- Prioritize
- Focus
2) Organizing Your To-Do List
- “Getting Things Done” by David Allen
- Using a GTD mind map
3) Getting Some Help
- Things you can delegate
- Secretarial tasks
- Website tasks
- Bookkeeping
- Administrative tasks
- Sources for help
- Online
- Virtual assistant
- Bartering with students
Items Mentioned In This Episode:
- Book: “Getting Things Done” by David Allen
- Mind Mapping Software:
- MindMeister.com (web-based…up to 3 mind maps for free)
- Freeemind
- Freeplane
- FREE Sample GTD Mind map (requires one of the above programs to open and use)
- eLance.com
- Virtual Staff Finder (Virtual Assistant placement service)
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- Free eBook: Teaching Guitar the SMART Way
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This podcast is definitely for me! I’m horrible with time management.
I haven’t tried out any of the mentioned programs yet, which I will, but it got me thinking. I went to my yahoo account and realized I have a calender on there which I can input events. I can also set it to remind me at whatever interval of time I choose.
What I was thinking is I could do what was suggested in the podcast. Write down all the things I need to do the next day or even the whole week. Then I could set it to send me an e-mail each morning with that days tasks that need to get done.
Again I’m still going to check out the programs because they are probably set up nicer but I just wanted to share this with anybody that has a yahoo account.
Great advice and something I need to start doing immediately! Great podcast Donnie!
Don
Thanks, Don!
I use a Google Calendar to schedule all my “blocks of time”, along with using the mind map I shared in the podcast to organize my to-do list. A Yahoo calendar would work just as well, like you mentioned…