Time Management

 

TIME MANAGEMENT

Time management is the process of organizing and planning how to divide your time between different activities.

Time management is the ability to use your time productively and efficiently. You could also think of it as the art of having time to do everything that you need, without feeling stressed about it. It sounds simple, but it is much harder in practice.

Being good time at management involves conscious planning and thoughtful decision making. It also involves staying focused and sticking to your prioritized tasks rather than getting derailed by unimportant distractions.

                                           

 "TIME MANAGEMENT IS LIFE MANAGEMENT" 

                                                                 - Robin Sharma

IMPORTANCE OF TIME MANAGEMENT

• Boost Your Confidence:- When you manage your time properly and successfully meet your deadlines, you’ll feel a sense of accomplishment and confidence in your abilities. Consistently finishing your daily to-do list is a huge motivator that can drive people to further improve their time management skills and take on new work opportunities.
• Better work-life balance:- One of the most important benefits of time management is a better work-life balance.  If you achieve a better work-life balance, you can be more productive at work and have more time to spend on your most important relationships. Work-life balance creates a good balance between your professional life and personal life. 
• Time to think:- Effective time management strategies  give you more to think and plan.  Planning your time ensures you have more time to work on your biggest priorities.  With more time to strategies, you have more time to focus on achieving your goals.  Good time management ensures you have time for strategic and creative planning time.  As a result, you can be more productive and focused with the time you have.
• Provide a better quality of work:- As a dedicated employee, you are expected to provide work of certain quality and standards. With the proper utilization of time and prioritization of activities, one can easily provide a better quality of work. Prioritization helps you focus on important tasks by keeping them in the highest priority which enables you to work on them with full attention and focus. Hence, the quality of the work is improved.
• More productivity and efficiency:- it is no secret that effective time management skills make you more productive and efficient as a working professional. These skills are helpful in helping you finish tasks as early as possible without compromising on the quality of work. Your overall productivity often goes for a toss when you’re working on unimportant tasks but effective time management skills let you tick off tasks that are both important and urgent on time.

TIME MANAGEMENT SKILLS

Time management skills are those that help you use your time effectively and achieve desired results. These can help you allocate your time properly and accomplish tasks efficiently.

• Prioritisation:- Prioritisation is the key to successful time management. When you prioritize your daily tasks, you ensure that you will complete the important tasks first. Write down every single task starting with the top priority.
• Communication:- Communication skills are a major component of success in life. Effective communication promotes trust and makes your plans and goals clear to people you work with. It plays a crucial role in resolving conflicts and preventing potential conflict situations. 
• Scheduling:- Scheduling is important because some tasks have to be done at specific times. Scheduling affects your day, your week, your month, as well as other people’s workflow. Most have specific times of the day when they are more or less productive as a result of energy levels and demands of the day.
• Task Management:- To-do lists (properly prioritized and integrated with your schedule) are a great way to avoid forgetting something important. They are also a great way to avoid spending all day thinking about everything you have to do. Remembering tasks takes energy and thinking about everything you have to do all week can be exhausting and overwhelming. Split all the necessary tasks up into a list for each day, and you won’t have to worry about all of it all at once.
• Stress management:- Positively handling stress keeps you motivated and helps you complete tasks at the scheduled time against all adversities. Exercise, yoga or having snacks during breaks can help you reduce stress. In fact, including stress-relieving activities or self-care rituals into your daily schedule can positively impact your productivity on work-related tasks throughout the day.

     TIPS TO IMPROVE TIME MANAGEMENT SKILLS

• Less stress or anxiety
• Better work-life balance
• Increased focus
• Higher levels of productivity
• More free time
• Makes things simple and easy
• Less distraction
• Greater energy and motivation

  CONCLUSION 

In conclusion, time management is a very important skill to be learned and to be mastered in order to have a better lifestyle. By managing well time, you will no longer suffer from stress and your works/tasks will be done on time and with great quality. Remember that it is important to have the attitude to change your schedules and to change procrastination. Also, take into account all of the explained strategies that are very helpful to achieve a better time management. Time management is the concept of balance. The most important thing that you can instill in your life is balance and moderation. By practicing the methods, ideas, and techniques in this book, you will become a master time manager, and have more time for your family and your personal life.