Most common time management principles
Posted by adminOct 18
How efficiently do you manage your time? Take a look at the following list of fundamental time management principles. Where could you improve?
- Effective time management is not doing things faster or better but doing the right things. The first step should therefore be to identify your key goals.
- The second step is prioritization – putting those goals into order of importance.
- Important does not mean the same thing as urgent. If you plan properly, you should be able to avoid things unexpectedly becoming urgent and consequently distracting you from those goals which are truly important.
- Priorities will, naturally, change but ideally only when something is important as well as urgent.
- Having identified the most important thing to do at any one point in time, concentrate on it 100 percent, to the total exclusion of all else.
- Once you have started a task, always try to finish it. Stress, tiredness, anxiety and loss of motivation are often brought about by the thought of things you have left outstanding or unfinished.