Effective Time Managment
The cost of poor time management skills, then, has risen dramatically-and it's measured as much in time as it is in money. We're more conscious of time passing than people were even 25 years ago. It almost seems that we need the increased life spans we enjoy today just to squeeze in all the living we want to do.
But we really can assert control over those things that eat into our productivity, our leisure time, and our peace of mind. It's largely a matter of being open to change, willing to adapt to new opportunities, and eager to develop and maintain the skills necessary to exert that control. How do you start? By analyzing who you are and your "style" of managing time.
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Not-to-Do Lists
Author Michael LeBoeuf offers a fascinating idea that may serve to free the spirit as well as some much-needed time. His idea: create a "not-to-do" list, which he believes should include the following kinds of items:
- All low-priority items, unless you've successfully completed all your high-priority items.
- Anything you could reasonably delegate to someone else.
- Demands on your time from others that are either thoughtless or inappropriate.
- Any errand that, if ignored, will have minimal consequences.
- Anything you might have done for someone else that the person should be doing for himself or herself.
There's a kind of exhilaration in setting down on paper a list of things you're not going to do.You can mentally tote up the minutes you're going to save by not doing them.The sense of freedom that this little exercise engenders can work wonders on the subconscious and can even lower your level of stress!
- All low-priority items, unless you've successfully completed all your high-priority items.
- Anything you could reasonably delegate to someone else.
- Demands on your time from others that are either thoughtless or inappropriate.
- Any errand that, if ignored, will have minimal consequences.
- Anything you might have done for someone else that the person should be doing for himself or herself.
There's a kind of exhilaration in setting down on paper a list of things you're not going to do.You can mentally tote up the minutes you're going to save by not doing them.The sense of freedom that this little exercise engenders can work wonders on the subconscious and can even lower your level of stress!
Knowing Your Time Management Style
Before we begin, I must emphasize the need to remember that we're all individuals. We do not all work - or even learn - in the same way. Some of us, for example, are visual in style: we learn by seeing. Some people, on the other hand, are auditory in style, learning and working best through hearing. And still others are tactile by nature: they need the sense of touch to fully absorb what they need to know. (Athletes are a prime example.)
We're different in other ways, as well. Some of us seem to have been born neat. Or childhood experiences, or being born a Virgo, or some other mysterious series of events made us so. Our childhood bedrooms were the pride of our lucky parents, our handwriting was (and remains) neat and tidy, and our sock drawers are perfectly arranged.
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We're different in other ways, as well. Some of us seem to have been born neat. Or childhood experiences, or being born a Virgo, or some other mysterious series of events made us so. Our childhood bedrooms were the pride of our lucky parents, our handwriting was (and remains) neat and tidy, and our sock drawers are perfectly arranged.
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The Value of Time
You may have seen this popular, uncredited e-mail that has widely circulated on the Internet:- To realize the value of one year, ask a student who failed a grade.
- To realize the value of one month, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.
- To realize the value of one week, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.
- To realize the value of one hour, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
- To realize the value of one second, ask the person who just avoided a traffic accident.
- To realize the value of one millisecond, ask the person who won an Olympic medal.
Time has a value greater than any currency. We may leave our children the money we don't use in our own lifetimes, but we cannot leave them one millisecond of time.
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