Time Management

Time Management

1. Definition

   • Process of organizing and planning how to divide your time between specific activities

2. Benefits

   • A better professional reputation
   • Less stress.
   • Greater productivity and efficiency.
   • Increased opportunities for advancement.
   • Greater opportunities to achieve important life and career goals.

3. If you fail to manage your time you will have these consequences:

   • Missed deadlines
     • Inefficient work flow
       • A poor professional reputation and a stalled career.
         • Higher stress levels

4. achieve your potential time effectively

   • Analysing your time
     • Keeping focus
       • Setting goals
         • Scheduling your time

5. Difficulties

   • t is important to analyse where you are wasting time
     • To do this we can utilize the R-A-C method
       • Record
         • Analyse
           • Change

6. Procrastination

   • What is it?
     • Putting off a task you should be doing.
   • Why do we Procrastinate?
     • A task may be too unpleasant to face, or too difficult, or very tedious, or boring, or there simply may be so many other more interesting things to pull your attention away
     • Strategies to prevent procrastination
       • Take action
         • Salami Technique
           • Five minutes
             • Work on related tasks
               • Do the hardest bits first
                 • Set goals
                   • Make commitments
                     • Reward yourself for achievement
                       • Change subjects regularly
       • The Salami Technique
         • Making Commitments
           • Rewarding Yourself
             • When you get a piece of work done effectively without wasting time you should reward yourself with a cup of tea, a chocolate biscuit, a quick break from the books.
           • Deadlines for projects and assignments
         • involves breaking down the task to its smallest parts and then working through each of them in order until the task is complete.

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