1. TIME MANAGEMENT Time Management = Life Management
It is what we do during the 86,400 seconds of each day that will ultimately determine how successful we are in our chosen career.

2. The ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well, and to finish it completely is the great key to Success, Achievement, Respect, Status and Happiness.
‘Approximately 85% of the information we keep will never be looked at again and 45% will never be used.’
Declan Treacy

3. POINTS TO REMEMBER: Action is the key to success
Limit is only the imagination
Everything is doable
Most of us are more productive in the morning

4. 21 Points of Time Management
1. SET THE TABLE
Rule : Think on paper
Rule : Worst use of time is to do something very well that need not be done at all.

5. 7 simple steps to achieve any goal
decide exactly what you want to do
write it down
set a deadline
make a list
organize it into a plan
take immediate action
RESOLVE to do something every single day

6. Setting S.M.A.R.T Goals
S - Specific
M - Measurable
A - Achievable
R - Realistic
T - Time bounded

7. 2. PLAN EVERYDAY IN ADVANCE
“ Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it.” Alan Lakein
‘Every single minute spent in planning saves 10 minutes in execution.’

8. 3. APPLY THE 80/20 RULE TO EVERYTHING
Average persons mostly procrastinate on the ‘Vital Few’
Resist the temptation to clear up small things first
Do the measles test
Use the RAFT technique

9. 4. CONSIDER THE CONSEQUENCES
Rule : Long term thinking improves short term decision making
Rule : Future intent influences and often determines present activities

10. 5. PRACTICE THE ABCDE METHOD CONTINUALLY
‘The first law of success is concentration, to bend all the energies to one point, and go directly to the point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.’ William Mathews
Rule : Never do the ‘B’ task before you finish the ‘A’ task.

11. 6. FOCUS ON KEY RESULT AREAS
Rule : Your weakest key result area sets the height at which you can use all your other skills and abilities
MAKE YOURSELF EXCELLENT IN IT

12. 7. OBEY THE LAW OF FORCED EFFICIENCY
Rule : There will never be enough time to do everything you have to do.
‘Things that matter most should not be at the mercy of the things that matter least.’ Goethe

13. 8. PREPARE THOROUGHLY BEFORE YOU BEGIN
Plan the order and the sequence before hand
Keep only the ‘A’ task on your desk
Well begun is half done

14. 9. DO YOUR HOME WORK
Rule : continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.
‘If you are not getting better you are getting worse’
Read at least on hour for updating yourself

15. 10. LEVERAGE YOUR SPECIAL TALENTS
You are designed in a way that you would like to do something you are good at.
Find that out and commit yourself to it.

16. 11. IDENTIFY YOUR KEY CONSTRAINTS
80% of the constraints are internal 20% external
The accurate identification of the limiting factor in any process and the focus on that factor can usually bring about more progress in a shorter period of time than any other single activity.

17. 12. TAKE IT ONE OIL BARREL AT A TIME
‘Persons with moderate powers will accomplish much if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.’
Samuel Smiles

18. 13. PUT THE PRESSURE ON YOURSELF
‘Only 2% people work without supervision.’ They are the leaders.
Create a forcing system
Self esteem is your reputation with yourself, with everything you do or do not do.

19. 14. MAXIMIZE YOUR PERSONAL POWERS
You are 5 times more productive when fully rested
Changes are also refreshers
Better you feel least you procrastinate

20. 15. MOTIVATE YOURSELF INTO ACTION
Race against yourself
‘Do it now’ should become your motto
Treat yourself as a world class athlete

21. 16.PRACTICE CREATIVE PROCRASTINATION
Rule: you can get your time and life under control only to the degree to which you discontinue lower value activities.
Make time for getting big things done everyday

22. 17. DO THE MOST DIFFICULT TASK FIRST
Adapt a positive outlook
Adapt to suit the environment
Leap and the net will appear !

23. 18. SLICE AND DICE THE TASK
‘The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen. The strand adds to it another filament until it becomes a great cable.’

24. 19. CREATE LARGE CHUNKS OF TIME
“Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets”
Nido Qubein

25. 20. DEVELOP A SENSE OF URGENCY
Do not wait. The time will never be “just right”
‘Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.”
Napolean Hill

26. 21. HANDLE EVERY TASK SINGLY
Self discipline is:
“the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”
Albert Hubbard

27. The 12 most common timewasters:
Losing things
Meetings
Telephone
Interruptions
Procrastination
Junk paperwork

28. The 12 most common timewasters [contd.]
7. Crises
8. Reverse delegation
9. Perfectionism
10. Distractions
11. s
12. Surfing the net

29. 6 ways of classifying information
By subject category
Alphabetically
By date
By colour
Geographically
Numerically

30. Time management styles
Ways of managing time
Reactive- prefer being directed
Proactive- prefer to be in control
Time management styles
Directors
Instigators
Relaters
Planners

31. FIND OUT YOUR STYLE AND WORK ON IT