Time Management Tips
Time management skills
are especially important for small business people, who often find them selves performing
many different jobs during the course of a single day. These time management
tips will help you increase your productivity and stay cool and collected.
1) Realize that
time management is a myth
No
matter how organized we are, there are always only 24 hours in a day. Time
doesn't change. All we can actually manage is ourselves and what we do with the
time that we have.
2) Find out
where you're wasting time
Many
of us are prey to time-wasters that steal time we could be using much more
productively. What are your time-bandits? Do you spend too much time 'Net
surfing, reading email, or making personal calls? Tracking Daily
Activities explains how to track your activities so you can
form a accurate picture of what you actually do, the first step to effective
time management.
3) Create time
management goals
Remember,
the focus of time management is actually changing your behaviors, not changing
time. A good place to start is by eliminating your personal time-wasters. For
one week, for example, set a goal that you're not going to take personal phone
calls while you're working. For a fun look at behaviors that can interfere with
successful time management.
4) Implement a
time management plan
Think
of this as an extension of time management tip # 3. The objective is to change
your behaviors over time to achieve whatever general goal you've set for
yourself, such as increasing your productivity or decreasing your stress. So
you need to not only set your specific goals, but track them over time to see
whether or not you're accomplishing them
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