Time Management
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The document provides effective lunch learning tips on time management, emphasizing the importance of managing time as a crucial resource in life. It outlines techniques and strategies such as goal setting, planning, prioritizing, delegation, and analyzing time to enhance productivity and self-development. Additionally, it highlights the impact of procrastination and offers methods to overcome it by taking decisive actions and effectively organizing tasks.
Time Management
- 2. Effective Lunch Learning Tips Time is the raw material of life and we are given only one life span on earth to do our earthy best. The capital called time is the only thing we can’t afford to lose as we can never get back the time that has past. Lost wealth may be replaced by Industry (Hard work), Lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine; but lost time is gone forever. It is our responsibility to manage the only real resource of our life called ‘time’. And to figure out what form of achievement we are to make out of it.
- 3. Effective Lunch Learning Tips Time is life and time management is the science and the art of building the better life, it is about practicing techniques and strategies to improve productivity enhance self-development and develop skill and the ability that includes; goal settings, planning, prioritizing, decision making, delegating, scheduling, directing and controlling.
- 4. Effective Lunch Learning Tips . We all know, no matter what we do, we cannot create any more time, but what we can do however is make changes in how we spend our time. Time management about making choice to take control of our time rather than have it control us. In order to do this, we need clarity about where we are headed…our goals, our future, and our ideal life. Once it is decided what is important the rest is pretty easy
- 5. Effective Lunch Learning Tips “There are a million ways to lose a day but, not even a single way to get one back”
- 6. Effective Lunch Learning Tips HOW TO MANAGE YOUR TIME
- 7. Effective Lunch Learning Tips Peter Drucker says - “Unless time is managed nothing else can be managed” Brian Tracy says – “The quality of your life will be determined by the quality of your time management; because time is your life”. organize to maximize your time: Time management begins with you by identifying goals that are important for you in life. You need to set the goals in the major area in the life like personal and professional. To achieve the defined goals you have to focus on activities required for reaching them and developing skills of spending appropriate time on things that matter.
- 8. Effective Lunch Learning Tips Write down your goals On a small time scale, this will mean setting yourself a daily together for tasks, that you need to get done. Determine where you would like to be in 10 year or 5 years. Strategically schedule time to facilitate those goals, one way or another. Have a Plan Planning is a choosing, among many options of activities, in regard to the specific objectives, with there relevance to the efficient usage of time available. Make plans, schedules, and priorities their activities. Disciplined to review and implement their plans.
- 9. Effective Lunch Learning Tips Start…set goals; create plans and schedules that translate plans into an order with in manageable time frames whatever is meaning full to situation. Keep monitoring time and result s. Remember if you take the time to plan and follow plans with self discipline the result it will yield will be quite amazing. Make schedule Schedule is the process by which you plan how you will make use of your time and listing job’s on “to do lists” shows your intention and commitment to work on them. To get started take one of your goals, break into projects and list action steps required for each project; put the action steps on your planner.
- 10. Effective Lunch Learning Tips Priorities Priority is a measure of judging value of tasks and activities in a given situation towards a specific goal. Effective prioritization can be done by evaluating the difference between the important , urgent and the unnecessary. We all have too much to do; and every job claims it self to be most important. Successful people are very clear about what is important to them.
- 11. Effective Lunch Learning Tips Delegation Start …entrust others, with responsibilities that can be passed on. Select the right person for the job who is best qualified and can deliver results. Provide with enough information , explain the task, tell him about the result expected; do offer guidance and advice when sought or needed with out interfering, and empower them to get on with tasks.
- 12. Effective Lunch Learning Tips Analyze the use of time What is the most important use of my time right now ? Or Is the best use of my time ? And keep on examining each of your activities to see whether it contributes to your goal or not. “analyzing time” keeps you focused and helps to keep a track of hours spent on each task. And contribute to make one efficient, effective and more focused on important tasks; rather just keeping very busy. By analyzing and evaluation you are able to give yourself a purpose, a direction to move toward and make you concentration the right things.
- 13. Effective Lunch Learning Tips Procrastination Procrastinating is to put off doing something or delaying, dilly dallying, deferring, postponing, and holding things back. There can be many reasons for procrastination like; fear of failure, habitual carelessness, finding a job unpleasant or complex to do, perfectionism, unclear objectives and over load of work. Stress anxiety, and a great amount of wasted time. Overcome procrastination, putting something off does not make it go away, and postponing it often just makes it worse. Break away the habit of differing action until a better time. There is no such thing . If something needs to be done, cut the excuses and JUST DO IT.
- 14. Effective Lunch Learning Tips START YOUR JOURNY • One of the factors which mark successful people is their ability, to work out what they want to achieve and have written and review able goals, these goals should impact our daily activities. • Schedule meetings and appointments with distinct termination time instead of open ended.
- 15. Effective Lunch Learning Tips • Make meetings/appionments one after another. If you have an appointment to see some one from 9.15 am to 9.45 am and some one wants to see you at 10.00 am, see if they can make it earlier at 9.45 am, because a fifteen minutes period in between two meetings is really productive, more-over the stress that some body is waiting makes you finish at time.
- 16. Effective Lunch Learning Tips • If you have a task to work on, schedule a definite time period; but still keep some extra time to accommodate interruptions that in variably occur when engrossed in a task. • Schedule important task at prime time for two reasons; as you mental and physical energy levels are high at that time and there are more chances of those jobs getting done. • An organized desk is a result of an organized mind. People are more productive when their materials are arranged in orderly way.
- 17. Effective Lunch Learning Tips • When in doubt ask; asking is better than trying to do things with inadequate or fractured communication; inadequate information are sinkhole of time. Remember you are respected for your accomplishments, not your silence. • Writing things down, does not mean; that you are circumventing your money; rather you are simply helping it, to do its job. Writing helps in saving tasks from neglect.
- 18. Effective Lunch Learning Tips • Assign things to others with specific deadlines; about when they are supposed to be completed. Do note that date in the follow-up section of your planner. • Look for paper or mails only at time, when you have enough time available to review them. As you pick papers either scarp it, delegate it, do it, file it, or schedule a time to do it later. The same principle applies to e-mails. • Have follow-ups of works you interested to do, marked on due date in your planner.
- 19. Effective Lunch Learning Tips • Recognize you can not do everything or be all things to all the people. Because you can note do impossible, whenever you say ‘yes’ to some assignment, make sure that the requests are compatible with your goals before you agree. • Attend few meeting; because they consume inappropriate amounts of time. Ask yourself, the necessary of attendance or it could be replaced; by writing a few notes or making some phone calls. • If you are not good at something; consider finding at someone else who is good at it, assign that to people who are specialists of that task, with-in or outside of your organization. • Make a habit of finishing main job of the day before you go home.
- 20. Effective Lunch Learning Tips • Stress and fatigue are rarely caused by the things you have done, but by the thoughts of what you have not done. • Cut short non productive activities; such as long telephone conversations, watching television, internet surfing etc. • Utilize commuting time, waiting time and travel time during the day by making or returning phone calls and planning the activities for the rest of the day or future. • Before meeting, be clear and ready, by accumulating queries, concerns that are to be communicated to people, and about the result you want and expect to achieve.
- 21. Effective Lunch Learning Tips • Leave nothing for tomorrow, which can be don today, what- ever peace of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can be done. • Monitor how you use your time, keep a time log, keep reviewing it, as that will help you spot what’s throwing you off-course. And do make conscious changes to your behavior. • Put value on every minute; we need to focus why we started a business or entered in to a career. This focus should include evaluation that how much our time is worth.