Recently I have been working so hard on my clients campaigns and own projects that I have been running myself into the ground and neglecting people close to me and even myself so I took a step back and analysed the situation I put myself in.

I realised that I had got completely caught up with trying to keep on top of several large projects of which each was incredibly time consuming. To give you a better understanding I am going to let you in on my old work routine that I decided to stop following yesterday (This was not a planned schedule just one that I ended up in).

7.00am - Alarm clock goes off and its time to get up and get ready for work.

8.00am - Travel to office

9.00am - arrive at office and power up the computer and start looking at client requirements and start working through them.

13:00 - Grab some lunch but continue to work whilst eating

19:00 - Time to leave the office and head back home

20:00 - Arrive back home and turn on the laptop and begin working on clients online advertising campaigns and checking performance of PPC campaigns.

21:00 - Time for a break and to eat some dinner, Watch TV and spend time with partner

22:00 - Back to the laptop again and working on my many websites.

24:00 - Time to finish up and get as much sleep as possible before another day begins.

That totals up to 14 hours of work a day plus 2 hours of travel time.

The weekends were not so bad but I was constantly checking on clients campaigns and working on my own websites too.

It seems strange to me now to see just how mad a schedule I had gotten myself into but it is worth noting that no one forced me to follow this routine.

Anyway, its time to put that madness behind me. I have decided to work on one project at a time and reduce my overall hours spent working whilst trying to streamline the more time consuming tasks.

The main point of this post is to try and highlight the dangers of not paying attention to personal schedules or even worse not even having one. I am currently trying to create a manageable and reasonable daily routine for myself that I can use to focus my efforts and free up more time.

I am hoping that by also focusing on fully developing one of my own sites at a time I will actually be more productive and actually get results much faster. I will keep everyone updated on any benefits I see from any changes.

Does anyone currently chart their time spent in order to manage there time better or do you have any great ideas for improving time efficiency?