A Few Tips on How to Better Manage Your Time
Posted March 14th, 2016
We are all looking for better ways to manage our time. There always seems to be more to do than time to do it. Much of good time management is simply having the self-discipline to focus on what we need to do. But there are ways to help us get focused, to get better organized so that we know what to focus on. Here are a few tips on time management.
1. Build in your breaks and interruptions
In other words, plan on being interrupted once in a while and build that time into your schedule. The same is true for breaks. Build in time for checking your email or surfing the web a bit. The key here is to schedule it, rather than doing it spur of the moment when your focus lapses. If you plan to do these things every few hours, you are much less likely to do them impromptu when the mood grabs you.
2. Neatness counts
Having a messy, cluttered work area will not help your productivity or help you make good use of your time. If you have to hunt for those notes or that folder or memory stick, you are wasting time, and the interruption will probably affect your concentration.
Studies have shown that a disorganized work area does hinder productivity. It simply creates a feeling of being disorganized and not in control and that affects our mood and focus. So, before your start, make sure your work area is neat and organized. Remove anything that could be a distraction, like, say, a photo album.
3. Record what you do.
Keeping a record of your activities will also help with time management. You will probably be surprised at the time you spend on unproductive things. Naturally, this is time consuming. But it’s not something that you need to do indefinitely, just for a week or two until you get a good idea of what you actually do during the day.
You may be surprised to find that those few minutes a day you spend surfing the Internet add up to several hours a week. The same might be true of the time you spend with other electronics, video games or TV watching. You won’t know what you are wasting your time on if you don’t keep track of what you do.
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