Whether you are an entrepreneur or a student, or just someone who wants to have a productive lifestyle, the first and foremost thing to learn is time management.

We all are blessed with 24 hours a day. While some can be couch potatoes and feel that time flies in a second, some others can seal more than one deal, finish a chapter, or learn new skills in the same 24 hours.

However, some want to be productive and yet feel like time doesn’t favor them. In reality, they haven’t learned to save time ultimately. If you are one of them, here are seven ways to save time and make the most of your day.

Make A Structure Of Your Free Time
Structuring your free time seems pointless since you will not be doing any work. But that doesn’t mean your free time cannot be productive. People tend to stay motivated and focused on the workplace because of the presence of a work structure.

Although you would like to spend your free time freely, the downside of doing so is that you will lose focus of time spending or spend it doing pointless stuff. Structuring your time, on the other hand, will give you direction and purpose. This will provide you with something to stay motivated and focused or even help you understand your free time value.

Keep a Diary Of Time Details
Like they say, time flies, you can hardly keep track of it. But keeping a time diary on what you spend your time gives you an insight. You can see what things impact your productivity in the right way and what things negatively impact it. Knowing the same will lead you to make decisions regarding how you can make better use of time.

A time diary helps you see patterns of time spent, keeps you from spending time on low low-leverage stuff, enables you to focus on priorities, etc.

ind Out Your Priorities
Every person is unique, and so is the time they spent. Some people may work hard for a successful career or career growth in general. At the same time, some others want to invest more in family time. But the critical question is, which one is you?

The Life Hype recommends taking your time to think about which part of life is more important for you and invest your time accordingly. People sometimes go with the flow and hardly know if they are working towards their priorities, often losing valuable time and not getting any work done.

Understand Why 24 Hours Is Not Much
If you think about it, the activities and things you do, 24 hours shouldn’t be less for you. If an average person spends 7-8 hours sleeping, 8 hours working, 1+1 hours for eating and chores in the house – it leaves only 6 hours for the activities you want to do.

This realization of having only a little time for your other commitments will remind you how important time is and how you have to be strict about spending it every once in a while. This will remind you to say ‘no’ to things that are not taking you anywhere and continuously drive you to make the most of the time.

Focus On High-Leverage Activities
The 80/20 rule is quite popular, and it says that you can work 20% and yet gain 80% success. But it also depends on what work you do in that 20% so that you get 80%. Every activity is either high leverage or low leverage.

Some people might only focus on low-leverage activities like watching the TV, which unbeknownst to ourselves take away a considerable part of our time. However, investing the same time in reading a book, meditating, exercising can provide fruitful results when the time is right.

Don’t Over Work
The right approach isn’t how much you are doing but the quality of work you are doing. Take Apple, for example. They are one of the most successful companies, and they have only a few product lines.
You can take a similar approach to your life. You can do fewer things and yet have a productive lifestyle.

Pack Your Lunch in Advance
While you’re busy with your schedule and work structure, you hardly remember about your lunch. But when it’s time, whether you are a slow eater or fast eater, you end up spending more than 1 hour for lunch. One of the common reasons why it happens is because you spend half the time planning your lunch.

The right approach is to plan your lunch and pack a cold lunch in advance so that you can take a small break during lunch.

Bottom line
Time management skills are not something you will pick up in a week. You will need to practice it regularly to make it a habit until it becomes your lifestyle.

2. The Spark

One night, as he was scrolling through his phone, he stumbled on a video about Iyin Aboyeji, a Nigerian tech entrepreneur who’d built companies that went global. Watching the video, Tunde felt a surge of excitement he hadn’t known before. If someone like him could do it… maybe I can too?

It was like seeing his future flash before him. In those few minutes, something awakened inside him. He spent the rest of the night digging into stories of Nigerian tech founders and learning what he could about coding and startups.

By the time he slept, Tunde was determined. He didn’t have much, but he had enough to start learning. And that was all he needed.

Each of us have a STORE OF E.. which stands for ENERGY, EXCITEMENT, ENTHUSIASM, EFFORT, EXTRA, ESPECIAL... we don't distribute these store at random but RELEASE IT IF.. The if includes a speculation that that the E will lead to more of something that we VALUE... be it PRAISE, PROMOTION, GOOD MARKS OR POPULARITY..

AS a Leader or ENTREPRENEUR if you want to bring more of the E out of your charges or your team, you need to KNOW more about what goes on in that often UNCONSCIOUS CALCULATION... we cannot teach, lead, manage or SELL IF WE DON'T LEARN & KNOW MORE ABOUT THE POWER OF OPTIONS

This new ranking is the highest the renowned entrepreneur has risen.

He was previously ranked 83rd in 2022.

No African is close to Dangote’s latest ranking as Johann Rupert, of South Africa is 174 on the world list, with a wealth of $13.6bn and Nicky Oppenheimer also of South Africa is number 224 on the world list with a wealth of $11.6bn.

The Way of The Woodpecker:

The wood pecker maybe a small bird but it’s ways are very unique; here is why;

1) No other bird makes its nests inside the body of a tree but the woodpecker.
2) If you see a bird living inside the trunk of a tree there is a 98% chance it is a woodpecker or it stole the nest from a woodpecker
3) With it’s beak, the woodpecker can chisel through any tree
4) The force applied by its chiselling beak is more powerful than two cars colliding at 40miles an hour, in comparative terms.
5) If a human were to chisel into a tree as the woodpecker, he/she will smash their heads into pieces at their first peck
6) Not even an eagle’s head or claw is as strong as the combined force of the head and beak of a woodpecker.
7) The woodpecker is smart enough never to make its nest on a branch but the trunk of the tree.

Here are the lessons for an entrepreneur:

As an entrepreneur you need to develop a skin as thick and strong as the head and beak of a woodpecker. This is because many are the trials on your path to self actualisation as a successful entrepreneur.

You also don’t need to be the strongest or smartest but know where to dig, know where to focus and where to set up your nest. If you drill too deep on a branch you will break it, but the trunk gives you more propensity for success.

You must have staying power. When a woodpecker chisels into a tree, it understands the job or task cannot be completed in one day, the bird will keep chiselling day after day until it is satisfied with the depth and width of the nest before it will move in and make it a home. As an entrepreneur you must have staying power, you must work on your craft day in day out until you get it done.

So learn the ways of the woodpecker and do likewise:

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer

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TEN ADVICES FROM THE 'OLD MAN' FOR THE GUYS

1. - Stop chasing women, and FOCUS ON CHASING YOUR GOALS. Improve your economy, your value as a man increases when you are able to sustain yourself, and it will continue to increase when you have the ability to provide for others.

2. - You can read the books you want, go to the conferences you want, but nothing happens if you don't have SELF-ESTEEM. When your self-esteem improves everything improves: your economy, your physique, your relationships, etc. If you don't have self-esteem, you're already at a disadvantage.

3. - If you have no inheritance, if you have no financial support, if you don't have contacts, if you have great studies, or skills, do what a real man does: work, save, make capital. Don't borrow to buy luxuries, nor to play entrepreneurship. It's true that everything in life is risk, but it's not about taking risks for taking them. Simply if you are starting out DON'T OWE YOURSELF. Work, save, capitalize, that's how it starts.

4. - A person who wants to get ahead CANNOT AFFORD TO WASTE HIS TIME. Devote all your energy and hours possible to develop skills. What skills? Skills that help you make money: learn to sell, learn to write persuasively, learn to speak, learn to lead, learn another language, learn digital marketing, viralization, etc.

5. - If you had children at a young age, behave like a man and take your RESPONSIBILITY. You're not the first and you won't be the last. You can be separated from the mom or move on with her, but no matter what, don't abandon your children, take on the role of a father to those creatures: be a provider, a protector, and a guide. Don't use your children as an excuse, use them as a motivation to overcome yourself

6. - Your future is not in another country, YOUR FUTURE IS IN YOUR HANDS. Acquire financial education and entrepreneurial mindset, that will open your eyes and you will start seeing opportunities where you used to only see problems. Europe is not what you think, America is not what you believe, Asia is not what you see, but instead you if you are MORE than you believe, act accordingly!

7. - If you're already in another city or country, make your decision worth all the effort. Don't work to be sending money to irresponsible, conformist and liars family members. Help your parents and/or your children if they really need it, but fundamentally INVEST IN YOURSELF: educate yourself financially, make capital, your goal should be to become an entrepreneur or investor.

8. - Some people think that their education ended when they finished high school, others when they left university, on the other hand, successful people think that EDUCATION NEVER ENDS, so invest in training, books, mentoring, counselling, never stop learning!

9. - STUDY FEMALE PSYCHOLOGY, choosing the wrong person as a partner can ruin you. Nowadays feminism is hurting women a lot and the family is under attack. Dysfunctional homes are on the rise. There are many women, and men, emotionally damaged, so you must learn to spot the signs of a person with internal problems, or distorted behaviours. First of all, remember: to find a healthy woman, first you must have been healed, because if you're wrong, it's highly likely that you choose wrong, it all starts with you!

10. - DO NOT DESPERATE. Patience is underestimated, but really true wealth and true success require patience, a lot of patience. Rome wasn't built in a day. So don't run to run, don't wear out. You're living your best years, but the years ahead are even better.

Entrepreneurship is not just about making money. It’s much more than that.