What Is Time Management?

So what is time management?

Have you ever had those days where you feel like you are going 1,000 miles an hour jumping from task to task and at the end of the day nothing got done?

Then you wonder how everyone else has the exact same 24 hours you have and can achieve more with their time?

Well, the answer you are looking for is excellent time management. This is the process of planning, organizing, and prioritizing all of your different tasks and activities.

Have you heard of the term working smarter not harder? Well, this is exactly what they are talking about. You can really get everything you need to get done even when you are short on time.

So what do you get from managing your time correctly?

?Increase your chance of advancing in a skill

?Leaves room to create opportunities to achieve personal and career goals

?Efficiency and productivity

?Less stress

?Less time actively working?

Yes because believe it or not by practicing good time management skills you can actually get more work done and work less time!

Overall you will start feeling more in control of your work and life balance and not be a stress ball every single day.

Now Charlotte how in the world can I make this happen?

Start by assessing everything you have on your plate at the moment. Ask yourself these questions:

How good are you at organizing your time so that the important stuff can be done well?

Can you balance your time by having different activities in between tasks?

When you do create that time to work on something can you stay focused and on task?

Are you able to finish?

Once you have the answer to those questions the next steps are:

Prioritization: Choose the task that is a must-do for today and which can be left for when time allows.

Scheduling: Now that you know what needs to get done pick a time when you will be doing this task. Make sure you are giving yourself a realistic timeframe and that you are completely focused and engaged in said tasks or activities.

Sticking with it: The most important thing you can do with time management is stick to your schedule. Being your own boss means that you can pick your own schedule and choose where and where to work not that you get to not work all week and then stress out one day.? I mean if this is what you like all power to you but if you are reading this is because you probably are looking for some structure on your long to-do list.

It is not good enough to just know everything that needs to get done. You need to know when where and how you are going to get everything done.

The key to time management is to focus on results rather than the number of activities or tasks you have to complete on a daily basis.

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