TIME MANAGEMENT

TIME MANAGEMENT

1. DEFINITION

   • Process of organizing and planning
     • How to divide the time
   • Good time management
     • Enables you to work
       • Smarter
       • Not harder

2. WHAT IS

   • Refers to how to organize time for each activity of daily life
   • The benefits are
     • Productivity and efficiency
     • A better professional reputation
     • Less stress
     • Opportunities to achieve important life and career goals.
   • Not managing your time effectively has consequences
     • Poor work quality
     • Inefficient work flow
     • Missed deadlines
     • Higher stress levels

3. DETECTING DIFFICULTIES IN MANAGING YOUR TIME

   • Discuss some of the difficulties
     • It is important to analyse where you are wasting time
     • Utilise the R-A-C method
       • Record
       • Analyse
       • Change

4. PROCRASTINATION

   • Means putting off a task you should be doing.
     • Why do we procrastinate?
       • Difficult, or very tedious, or boring, or there simply may be so many other more interesting things to pull your attention
     • STRATEGIES TO PREVENT PROCRASTINATION
       • Take action
       • Salami Technique
         • Involves breaking down the task to its smallest parts and then working through each of them in order until the task is complete. 
       • Five minutes
       • Work on related tasks
       • Do the hardest bits first
       • Set goals
       • Make commitments
         • 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. 
       • Reward yourself for achievement
         • 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.
       • Change subjects regularly

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