Managing Our Time
Though its a very common known Topic to discuss . But its relevant at every sphere in life . We should be focus on what matters and avoid distractions and get thing done . As old saying that you have too much to do and too little time . Sometimes its frustrating and stressful and has a big impact on your success . Although you cant magically add more hours to the day but you can learn to manage your time .As we always ask this question , Why do I never seem to have enough time to get everything done . There are your daily tasks and big projects that always being on our plate . We are always juggling a wide range of tasks responsibilities ,projects and deadlines .There is too much to do and too little work.
The first step to effective time management is self awareness. We all have a general sense of what types of tasks that we perform on a daily basis and how much time we spent on each But perception isnt always reality.Thats why its important to actually track our time . To start with keep a log of the tasks that we do in a day . We can use mobile for this and now we have so many app tracking our time
Break down your responsibilities into breakdown of our Job duties into Core responsibilities , Personal growth ,Mannaging people ,Administartive tasks and Free time and Track your time by building a your own time tracking tool , be its a mobile or old style note book .Just after complete a tasks , write down how long it took us to finish the work , like checking Emails , making some excel sheets, having calls and team meetings and discussion with Boss. At the end of the each day , take five minutes to review the same and you can finally make a short note of that.
I always asked my team to have a note book with them and jot down the work your doing it daily and then you can see how much time you are spending on which work or tasks. As all we have to Reclaim our time to find more time to spend on our highest priority actvity . The next step is to apply the process of reallocating time more boradly into Job categories Like Manageing people, Core responsibilities , Crises and Fires, Personal growth and Free time As we all know our goals and time allocatments may seem reasonable on papaer , but once you get ito the flow of the workweek , We all find its unrealistic. We cant do everything ,So don't spread ourself too thin . The purpose of time management isn't to find ways to do more work , But to get the right work done whiule working at a consistent and comfortable pace
So the more we are realistic , reasonable and attainable our plan its more successful you'll be at managing our time as Good time management is based on preparation , Once you established the goal , Set priorities, and develop a plan , Then it will Easier to stick with it
I know its says easy though tough to follow as I have been trying the same for so many years with sometime I do it and sometime I missed , But I never stop creating Goals for my self and creating a path and manage time to keep myself on the track every time.