Our busy lives seem to stretch all our mental and physical capacities to the maximum on a daily basis. We no longer walk, ponder, digest, and stay still. Instead, we rush around, chase our dreams, explore new opportunities, and climb social and professional ladders. Our daily acrobatic routines bend us out of shape and sometimes break us in halves. How do we get there on time, meet the deadline, and keep our priorities straight?
Each successful individual has his/her own way of coping with rather strict time constraints. Time management strategies vary from person to person. Improving your time management skills can help you get higher quality results by doing less work. Here are some of the websites where I found some of the useful advice and ideas on how to manage your time in more efficient ways.
Define Your Life and Career Goals. Prioritize!
Defining your top priority goals helps to envision clearer what is worth spending your time on, and what is only a distraction. Just like in a project management world, in real life, it is crucial to prioritize your requirements into ‘must-have’ and ‘like-to-have.’ Once you identify and separate your goals into two, it is much easier to focus the attention on your top priorities. I found that the following links are loaded with an array of helpful advices, tools and assessment quizzes.
1. MindTools.com Use To-Do Lists and Calendars. These are pretty obvious but very helpful tools that most of us have used at some point of our lives. The key is to be able to keep your To-Do List separate from your Top Priorities List. By using a To-Do List and keeping track of important dates on a calendar, we can work in a focused and effective way, and start achieving those goals and ambitions. Here is another relevant resource:
2. TimeManagement.com Plan In Advance. Don’t Procrastinate Till The Last Minute. There might be some perks for the last minute travel deals. However, almost everywhere in life, it pays to have a well-outlined plan, at least for a near future. Waiting till the last minute to accomplish something important, could quite frequently lead to unexpected errors, mistakes, and unfavorable outcomes. Therefore, in the majority of cases it pays to manage your time through a certain degree of planning.
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3. Time-Management-Guide.com Learn When to Multitask and Learn When To Say No. Undoubtedly, many jobs these days require you to possess an ability to multitask due to budget cuts, downsizing, and re-organization. Choose to multi-task easy and short activities, not the ones that require a full concentration for longer periods of time. Also, pick and choose your battles! Learn to say no, if and when, you know that it will bring about a more productive outcome in the long run. This is another useful link that is full of time management discussions:
4. TimeThoughts.com Balance Your Professional and Personal Lives. Time management tips and strategies on how to manage your time better and stay more organized. This site is filled with valuable resources ranging from how to use the 80/20 rule to setting priorities.
5. BaseCamp is an online collaboration and project management tool to help your manage multiple projects efficiently at the same time.
What are your hints and tricks that you utilize to manage time more efficiently?
Article written and contributed by Kamilla Kay, PMP. She can be contacted via email at: kamillabk@hotmail.com
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