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Time Management In A Busy World
By Gordon | May 19, 2008
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You have not heard from me for a long time.
I am sorry for disappearing so suddenly. I have no excuses (although I could come up with many). But I would freely admit that all this had to do with my very poor time management.
I was so busy that I simply let things go by and before I knew it, I had simply lost the ability to do what I love… to share with you loyal readers.
In fact, last weekend was the first time in a long while that I met up with Tiat!
Busyness can easily overwhelm us if we do not know how to manage our time properly. And I have learned this hard lesson in the last few months. And these are some simple time management tips that I derived.
- Write It Down. If I don’t, I will surely forget it. Create list of things to do. Use whatever you are comfortable with. I started using my diary but now use my new pda phone exclusively to jot down my to do list. A friend of mine uses Post-Its. When she gets home, she sticks all these on her wall board, grouping them in whatever clusters she likes. And the feeling of liberation is so strong whenever she peels it off the board and throws it into the wastebasket.
- Look At What You Wrote! It is no use writing it all down if you do not bother to read it.
- Prioritize it. My friend’s idea of using ‘Post-Its’ is really great because she can easily group tasks into different priority groups. Some can be ‘upgraded’ while others ‘downgraded’. But you get the picture. Decide what needs to be done first and now. Do the others later.
- Slay the Procrastination Dragon! I found that I usually do the easier things first and delay what I do not like to do to the end. But in so doing, I never ever seemed to get started on them. I had to forced myself to start doing the very things I always put off doing first. But this works well and I find that once I get through them each day, the rest is plain sailing.
- Take A Break! Kit Kat had the right idea because no matter how busy you are, you need to know and plan for some off time to get you back to the on time.
That’s it for now. Talk soon.
Gordon
Topics: Goal Setting, Time Management |