Time Management Activities
I can’t wake up on time; I can’t get to school on time. I was late for work… AGAIN. I can’t manage to finish anything properly. I can’t enjoy anything because my schedule is too tight and doesn’t give me any room to breathe. Somebody make it stop! Well, if any of these sounds familiar to you, maybe you should try analyzing your time management skills. Because you notice other people can get things done in the allocated time slot. For example, they can go to work, pay a visit to the gym, cook dinner and catch up on some reading all in the same day covering all the basic human needs. Because every day should contain, besides your regular work load, some physical exercise, some leisure time and some house chores. So take a look at this article and start practicing some time management activities. NOW!
1. Prioritize. Of the time management activities, this one is the most important. You have to pick 5 objectives you want to accomplish with the greatest urgency. For instance, I want to learn French, learn how to edit photos and movies, go swimming three times a week, read one novel a week and work on my dissertation. Therefore, any other activity is inconsequential and I should focus on these 5 for 80% of my free time. That is why each time I take a decision I have to keep in mind what is important to me and do not neglect my actual goals.
2. Start an activities log. Very tightly connected to the previous point, comes the next challenge. In order to keep track of your actual preoccupations you should definitely try to write down everything you do split into 30 minute intervals. I know some of the time you may not be in control (especially if you have a demanding boss) and the workload might not end at the moment you want it to and it may eat into your personal time. But as much as you can control it, try to stick to the basic needs and the main goals you have set for yourself. Also, in setting them, try to include activities that will help you grow, activities that you have to sustain for a period of at least three months.
3. Solve a hypothetical problem. Take a step back from your actual hectic lifestyle. Try to solve a quiz that gives you a bunch of different activities and asks you to fit them all in a day’s schedule. They will be urgent activities, some fix, others flexible, some important and other trivial and you will have to organize that day so that everything is done at the moment it needs to be. If you can solve this abstract quest, you will be able to observe the contrast this makes with your real problems and think that if you managed to solve this, you should apply the knowledge to real life situations.
4. Plan just half of your time. This is a trick that you should know definitely know by now connected to time management activities. In order to accomplish everything you want in one particular day, you should make a solid plan for only have of it. Because it is very likely that some things, if you do them right, take more than you estimated. Also, it is vital to leave room for those unforeseeable events that always come up.
5. Team effort for a complicated task. As a time management exercise, try to work on your team work skills. It is very important to work well as a team or at least to know how to be efficient. So, organize a team building seminar and suggest solving a puzzle using both your brains and your skills. See how fast you figure out how to help the team, which is your unique role and how to do it best.
6. Delegate. As one of the mandatory time management activities, please do not hesitate to delegate. What is assigned to you and isn’t technically your job can be delegated, the minor tasks that you shouldn’t waste your time with should also be given to someone else. Leave to yourself the specialized tasks which are yours and help you expand your knowledge and pass on those robot jobs which anyone else can do.
7. Do not postpone. According to the importance and the level of complexity of the assignment, try not to bury the real demands at the back of casual demands. In any area of your life, postponing just takes you further away from the purpose and makes it harder to get back in the game.
These were some very useful tips and some time management activities which could really help you treat yourself and your schedule much better. One last piece of advice, don’t forget about your core self and always leave one half hour a day for quiet meditation, it will improve your concentration overall!
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