TIME Managing It Effectively

By Leadstart Publishing

Time management refers to the efficient and effective use of your personal time to meet your professional and personal goals. It means prioritizing things that are important and not just urgent. You many use a day-planner and to-do lists to manage your time. These tools are certainly helpful, but they do not distinguish between what is important and what is urgent.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Leadstart Publishing
• Release date: Oct 6, 2017
• ISBN: 9789384027292

Leadstart Publishing

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INTRODUCTION

WHAT IS TIME MANAGEMENT?

Time management is described as the approach or technique of availing of and using time in the most efficient way, in order to produce the utmost value for each second that is expended. Time management is indispensable whether in the corridors of the corporate world or in the personal domain. No matter what we do or do not do, whenever we execute something or not, time goes by. Even the apparently simple action of transferring our vision from the computer screen to the person seated close by, takes up a couple of seconds of valuable time.

Most of us attempt to find the most useful ways to spend the time granted to us. Successful time management methods generally have the following 3 things representing their common values. The meaning of time management covers these three things.

The detractors of time management programmes claim that devising plans and establishing checklists consume time too and therefore cannot be considered effective usage. They state that people should carry on with the natural flow of their daily activities, since life does not last forever. However, making a preference list and attempting to find the direction in which our lives are going, assists in establishing focus and ensuring that we do not fritter away the remaining days of our lives aimlessly. Certainly, some time has to be spent in drawing up a plan, but it is negligible, in the interests of a focused and organized life.

The Pareto principle of time management states that we can produce about 80% value even though we spend just 20% of our time doing a particular thing. On the other hand, there also exists the danger of obtaining just 20% from a pursuit on which we spent 80% of our time and effort. Now, when we consider this principle, there is one thing that is immediately striking – we should decide the order of importance or priority, of the pursuits and undertakings that give us 80% benefits with 20% time spent.

Now, this is not very hard to determine if we adhere to a correct time management programme which enables us to recognize which pursuits and tasks actually count, thus generating a sensible life plan and permitting us to prepare an agenda to arrive at a particular goal or purpose in life.

Time management’s chief objective is to attain a specific goal. Hence, to make it possible for us to enjoy the benefits, we should, primarily, have an unambiguous goal set down and ensure it is truly what we wish to attain. Participating in any kind of time management strategy actually counts for nothing if we finally end up with something we are actually not interested in!

Hence, in response to those who disapprove of this technique, we have to mention that while the process of time management takes up a lot of time, the catch-phrase here is ‘takes up’, not ‘squanders’. The only way a person can squander time is by doing something which holds extremely little or absolutely no value. Utilizing time in order to run one’s life is certainly not misuse. In fact, it is a good deed done for oneself, since every person ought to take pleasure in the time granted to him in this world. Now, our very own transience is which induces us to search for better ways to use our time. Can you think of a better way to ensure that we receive the finest, than designing a lifetime time plan?

Time is the most cherished thing that mankind has. Every second that passes counts and we hold the complete responsibility to use it to our maximum benefit. Thus time management information and tips are valuable in order to effectively manage this valuable resource.

Managing time is not all that hard when you look at it at a deeper level. Time can be managed by sorting out things that are important and giving them priority. In this way you will know your direction before making any plans and not waste time and energy unnecessarily.

What is time management? How to go about managing time and what type of information is needed to do so? Time management relates to the set principles of a person and system of decision-making based on their consciousness about the daily tasks that occupies their time.

Setting goals is the most important thing in time management and without this it is like walking blindly in a dark room and trying to locate the door.

Time management demands a set schedule that works best for you and in this way you are able to prioritize your tasks based on the importance and the need to finish them, in order of priority you set. In this way you will not waste your time beating about the bush.

Many people believe the common misconception that doing everything simultaneously saves time. But the people who multitask, usually end up doing less and achieving less than their potential would have yielded if only they had planned ahead in doing the tasks and managed their time.

We live in a fast paced world today and