Time Management

Time Management

1. To Do:

   • Determine a "to do" list daily
   • Choose what's really important
   • Sort it according to my Priorities
   • Avoid the "over" term
   • Include time for fun and hoppies
   • Handle Emergencies
   • Try to estimate a realistic time bound

2. Not To Do:

   • Social Media
   • Long Phone Calls
   • Eating while watching movies
   • Playing Video Games

3. Online time stealers

   • Set the alarm after a certain time
   • Don't open unrelated websites to my search
   • Bookmark useful websites instead of non useful ones.

4. Lack of Focus and Direction

   • Have a mentor
   • Write down my goals
   • Write down new ideas
   • Search the internet for more details
   • Make a realistic action plan
   • Always have backup plans
   • Create a motivating environment to encourage me

5. Phone Calls

   • Get to the point
   • Make them with other tasks, ex: washing the dishes
   • Make them at one time

6. Messy Desk

   • Sort the papers by subject
   • Have different colors for each folder
   • Try to digitalize the paper as possible
   • Get rid of the unnecessary documents
   • Organize folders according to its priority

7. Perfectionism

   • Do what's really needed
   • See if its worth your time
   • Don't exaggerate if it's not worth it

8. Time Savers

   • Learn to say no
   • Don't ever procrastinate
   • Work on teams to divide work
   • Multitasking
   • Prioritize
   • Divide work to tasks and check the progress
   • Always have a plan B to exploit waiting time
   • Don't surrender to interruptions
   • Set short and long term goals
   • Schedule
   • Focus my attention on what I'm doing, so I don't have to do it twice