It’s easy to waste precious time. YouTube and a lot of those other websites can really suck you dry in terms of hours (not even minutes). Oh and there’s chugging coffee, checking your e-mail every five minutes, and just about anything that prevents you from doing your job. In any case here are four tips to save you some time. Even if it’s just a few minutes.

When on the phone, try to limit your calls. Have timer by the phone and have an alarm go off after five minutes of calls. While you don’t have to be rude, the alarm would prompt you to stick to the bare essentials.

People always arrive late especially for meetings. One trick to get people to come on time is to set meetings at odd times. Set the meeting at 2:20 or at 11:50. This way people will be paying attention to the minute.

Stop working when you’re off the clock. Time isn’t just for work. It’s for your life too. And we all need one. This has been a problem of workaholics and work-at-homers. While this doesn’t mean that you have to scoot off once the clock hits 5, but doing so will make you budget your time wisely.

Set up a time savings account.  How? Try to shave 5 minutes off for every hour of work that you have to do in a day. This way, you’ll be finished 40 minutes early. You can do a lot in 40 minutes. Take a nap. Read a book. Think of ideas to save the world.