Time Management

by Larry Stanley

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Time Management

  • Joined Feb 2017
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Time management” refers to the way that you organize and plan how long you spend on specific activities.

It may seem counter-intuitive to dedicate precious time to learning about time management, instead of using it to get on with your work, but the benefits are enormous:

  • Greater productivity and efficiency.
  • A better professional reputation.
  • Less stress.
  • Increased opportunities for advancement.
  • Greater opportunities to achieve important life and career goals.
    • Missed deadlines.
    • Inefficient work flow.
    • Poor work quality.
    • A poor professional reputation and a stalled career.
    • Higher stress levels.

    Spending a little time learning about time-management techniques will have huge benefits now – and throughout your career.

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Time Management Tips

 

 

1. Eliminate the Unnecessary
This becomes more and more true every day. Either professionally or personally, eliminating the “unnecessary” in life goes a long way in making you more productive. What do I consider unnecessary? Well, strictly speaking, anything that prevents you from reaching your particular goal. If your goal is to clean out your email inbox, then don’t spend 45 minutes on Facebook. If you have a deadline to make at work, don’t spend 25 minutes per day fielding unnecessary phone calls. Put simply, you need to draw a firm, distinct line between the “necessary” and “unnecessary” in your life. The stricter you define these terms, the more you’ll find that a lot of things are truly unnecessary in your life.

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2. Plan Your Work
If you go into work every day having no idea what you want to accomplish, then guess what? You’ll probably accomplish nothing. Set aside ten to fifteen minutes before work and either write down or mentally plan what you want to accomplish. Personally, I plan my work each morning as I am driving in to work. These several minutes that I spend planning contribute more towards me being productive and effective than anything else that I do. After you decide what you want to accomplish, then execute the plan.

3. Multitasking
Multitasking skills are a talent that not all of us possess. Realizing whether you are the type of person that can do it or not is important. If you’re able to multitask, great. If you’re not, then don’t bother trying. Many people make themselves less effective by trying to multitask when they simply can’t do it. This leads to multiple projects being started and none of them being finished, sloppy work, and discouragement.

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4. Know When To Multitask
So, for us multitaskers, does that mean that we should just multitask our way through every single minute of every day, constantly having four or five things going at once? Absolutely not. You also have to know when not to multitask. For example, every day at work for me, there are four to five mundane little checklist-type things that have to be completed. They are boring and mundane. So guess what? I try to accomplish as many of them as I can at once and as fast as I can.

5. Reduce Interruptions
And finally, reduce the number of interruptions in your life. Realistically, you can’t reduce the number of things that are going to interrupt you, but you can alter the fashion in which you deal with them. If I am working on something important and one of my employees comes to me with something that I know can be dealt with at a later time, guess what? That’s exactly what I do. “Sure, we can get to that, but let me finish what I am doing right now and then we’ll take care of it.” You see?

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There are only three ways to spend time: thoughts, conversations and actions. Regardless of the type of business you own, your work will be composed of those three items

 

 

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