Smart Time Management – Essential Guidelines That Help to Save Your Time

Are you sometimes feeling yourself overwhelmed with all that duties and tasks you have to accomplish during your everyday life due to poor time management? If you are also feeling frustrated after a long business day, because you are not able to spend your precious time with family and friends, you should actively change something! I found myself in similar situations and sometimes, even a 24 hour day wasn’t enough to get all my work done, meet with my friends and find some leisure for myself. However, the amount of hours available per day is unfortunately limited to the number of 24. Due to this fact we should consider to think about intelligent ways to manage our time as effectively as possible. Learn the essentials about intelligent time management:

1. Identify activities that are stealing your valuable time!

This step is one of the most important things to consider in order to apply time management effectively. Nevertheless, it is necessary to be absolutely honest so that even activities that have become comfortable habits will be scrutinized. I recommend you to grab yourself a notepad and track down all of these activities within a week or so, inclusively the amount of time you spend for it.

2. Start to eliminate time consumptive actions!

After identifying habits, activities and recreational pursuits that are stealing your time you can begin to eliminate these. In order to ease this part of the time management process you should definitely evaluate the time consumptive actions and concentrate on those that would save a lot of time when eliminated. I am very well aware that the elimination process is not going to be easy, therefore I suggest to reduce the time you spend with time consumptive activities until they are completely eliminated.

3. Schedule your business day!

The method of time management that I’m going to describe in the following is a simple, yet very effective time management tactic. It only necessitates five to ten minutes spend on evaluating the upcoming tasks of the business day. You can classify your tasks into “Top”, “Middle” and “Low” priority. The most important point of this technique is that it allows you to focus on top-priority task during your personal peak energy times. This helps to avoid slips of the pan due to concentration problems and gets your most important tasks done in a fast and effective way. Once you finished your entire top-priority task you can focus on the second category and so on.

4. Apply power sessions to get your work done!

A power session is a defined amount of time you take to focus on a specific task. Make sure not to be interrupted during such a power session, neither by email, telephone nor by the internet. The importance of such a session will drastically increase if you are able to only focus on your task, while not being distracted by any means. This will enable you to get more work done faster than before. You can feel free to choose the duration of such a power session from 30 minutes up to one and a half hour.

5. Schedule your leisure time!

I know this might sound odd, you might even ask yourself: “Why should I schedule my leisure time?”. The very fact of this is that it helps to save time. Once you have a defined schedule for the recreational pursuits you will notice that you no longer lose time by exaggerating specific activities like watching television.

Time management has got a very important effect on being able to achieve the goals you have set yourself, yet it requires honesty, discipline and the willingness to make priorities. It will be often necessary to choose between pleasurable and time consumptive activities and your tasks. It is the choice between wasting time and managing time intelligent in order to spend this time with your family, friends and for yourself.

Steven Mueller is the author of the eBook The Road to Success and is adapting his experience in order to help individuals to live a joyful lifestyle, improve their personality and achieve every goal they are targeting on.

Steven is convinced that a successful life does not only depend on wealth and prosperity, but also personal happiness as well as physical and mental health. He considers it as a very important thing in life to share knowledge as well as experience with other individuals from all backgrounds, professions and countries. You can find Steve’s personal thoughts about Time Management and many more on his blog.

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