The other day I was in a restaurant with friends. The restaurant itself was owned by another friend of ours who happened to have gone away with her family to the Caribbean for three weeks. Someone at the table asked how on earth she could have managed to do that, given the nature of her business and her family commitments. Like an arrow, the answer came back, “She’s got systems”.

As an entrepreneur, time is of the absolute essence.

The more you spend doing stuff that is a waste of time, the less you will have to use on the processes and actions that bring you results. There are a number of good resources on the Internet to help you to get started on the road to true time management for entrepreneurs, and we point to our earlier articles:

http://www.planningforlife.org/coffee-shop/magazine/features/time/item/5-a-simple-market-based-method-of-valuing-your-time

and

http://www.planningforlife.org/coffee-shop/magazine/features/time/item/4-do-you-value-your-time?

as good sources. But this article is concerned primarily with how you use your time in direct relation to the kind of money you make. In other words, filling your time with meaningless or trivial pursuits is the very last thing you want to do.