TIME MANAGEMENT

DEFINITION
1. Process of organizing and planning
  1. How to divide the time
2. Good time management
  1. Enables you to work
    1. Smarter
    2. Not harder
WHAT IS
1. Refers to how to organize time for each activity of daily life
2. The benefits are
  1. Productivity and efficiency
  2. A better professional reputation
  3. Less stress
  4. Opportunities to achieve important life and career goals.
3. Not managing your time effectively has consequences
  1. Poor work quality
  2. Inefficient work flow
  3. Missed deadlines
  4. Higher stress levels
DETECTING DIFFICULTIES IN MANAGING YOUR TIME
1. Discuss some of the difficulties
  1. It is important to analyse where you are wasting time
  2. Utilise the R-A-C method
    1. Record
    2. Analyse
    3. Change
PROCRASTINATION
1. Means putting off a task you should be doing.
  1. Why do we procrastinate?
    1. Difficult, or very tedious, or boring, or there simply may be so many other more interesting things to pull your attention
  2. STRATEGIES TO PREVENT PROCRASTINATION
    1. Take action
    2. Salami Technique
      Annotations:
      - Involves breaking down the task to its smallest parts and then working through each of them in order until the task is complete.
    3. Five minutes
    4. Work on related tasks
    5. Do the hardest bits first
    6. Set goals
    7. Make commitments
      Annotations:
      - If you are working on a large piece, such as studying towards the leaving certificate, you can give yourself deadlines to have different topics covered within a subject by specific dates.
    8. Reward yourself for achievement
      Annotations:
      - 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.
    9. Change subjects regularly

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	Created by Marco Kantun Uicab over 3 years ago