TIME MANAGEMENT – Tips for you to manage your time – not let it manage you

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Barriers to good time management Keeping too many things in your head Doing whatever grabs your attention next Doing very efficiently that which need not be done at all Not spending enough time on your top priorities Poor Planning

Barriers to good time management Working in a disorganized and distracting environment Attempting to do “too much” Always saying “YES” Not managing your inflows Confusing activity with productivity

Top Ten Tips for Effective Time Management #10 Write things down A common time management mistake is to try and use your memory to keep track of details leading to information overload Using a To Do list to write things down is a great way to take control of your projects and tasks, and keeping yourself organized.

Top Ten Tips for Effective Time Management #9 Prioritize your list Prioritizing your To Do List helps you focus on the things that really matter Beware of filler tasks Tackle items that have the highest priority Avoid taking on tasks that you can do with efficiency that don’t need to be done at all

Top Ten Tips for Effective Time Management #8 Urgent vs. Important Tasks A key principle to Time Management is that important things are not always urgent, and urgent things are not always important

Top Ten Tips for Effective Time Management #7 Avoid attempting to do too much If you spread your time and energy over too many different projects, you may not be able to make meaningful progress on ANY of them. Good time management requires you to focus your time on a smaller set of objectives.

Top Ten Tips for Effective Time Management #6 Learn to say NO! Many people become overloaded with too much work because they overcommit; they say Yes when they really should be saying No Learn to say NO to low priority requests and you will free up time to spend on things that are more important.

Top Ten Tips for Effective Time Management #5 Apply the 80/20 rule The 80/20 rule states that 20% of your tasks account for 80% value of your To Do list. Some tasks have a much greater return on your investment of time and energy than others Use prioritization to identify and focus your time on these high pay off tasks.

Top Ten Tips for Effective Time Management #4 Learn to relax

Top Ten Tips for Effective Time Management #3 Avoid wishful thinking Wishful thinking can ruin a well laid plan Avoid this by identifying risks and learning how to put realistic expectations on your project. Schedule room for error and unexpected problems when creating a time line.

Top Ten Tips for Effective Time Management #2 Balance your time When you have a lot of different activities, you can create a better sense of balance by giving each week a specific focus Remember Family Work Kin

Top Ten Tips for Effective Time Management The #1 Tip for Effective Time Management HAVE FUN!!

Remember - "Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." -- H. Jackson Brown -an American author, owner and creative director of an advertising agency in Nashville, Tennessee, H. Jackson Brown, Jr. spent his days composing music and creating TV and print campaigns to promote his client's products.author "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt – U.S. President (1932 – 1945) "No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essayist, poet, and leader of the Transcendalist movement in the early nineteenth century. "More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent." -- Billy Sunday - was an American athlete and religous figure who, after being a popular outfielder in baseball's national League became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century