Time Management

Time management refers to the tools and techniques for planning and scheduling time, with the intention to increase the effectiveness and the efficiency of personal and corporate time use. Management is the process of getting activities completed efficiently and effectively with and through people. Time is irreplaceable, only spendable.

Time management is a subject of importance on every level of your existence, be it family, business or corporate establishment. One very important point to take into consideration is that time is equally allotted to everyone. The equal opportunity among everyone, rich and poor alike, is that we all get 24 hours in a day. Achieving your set goals, assignments or to-do-list within the allotted time is what is crucial to you and your purpose. Time management is all about investing your time wisely in activities that are relevant to your purpose which ultimately help to maximize your potential and minimize your liabilities.

There are exactly twenty-four hours in each day. The idea that I need more time to do this or that is absurd and this is what most people convey. It must be understood that time management is not about managing time as it were. Yet the allotted time is fixed. What you need to manage are the activities that are consuming your time without meaningful results. Again it is not just an issue of accomplishing much within the fixed time but that which is accomplished is substantial and significant to your values, goals, purpose as you journey toward your destiny.

It's imperative that you learn on a regular basis to have another look at your values, goals, projects, and tasks, prioritizing them. Time management is about self-discipline, focusing on what is most important, regularly reassessing your priorities, concentrating on whatever makes you a better person, appreciating time, using it wisely, and taking action now.

Tips for time management

A to-do-list: Create and keep a to do lists. It’s so much easier for your mind to get things out of your head and onto a paper than burdening yourself with the task of remembering every single detail of what has to be done. This is especially useful if you are very busy.

Setting priorities: . Here’s how to work most effectively. As you are planning your day, first put everything to be accomplished on paper. Then, prioritize the activities with the most important task coming first and the least important task coming last. Take action on the most important things first until completion. Then move progressively on to the next task on your list. At the end of the day, no matter what, you will have worked on the first activity on your prioritized list. Incidentally, the apparent difference between high efficient people and low productive people is how they manage their activities within the allotted time.

Goal setting: Goal setting is important in managing your activity to be done within the fixed time. Daily, weekly or monthly goals as the case may be will help you allocate time to the specific goals, which of course will help you know how your time is spent and how much can be accomplished.

Action plan: Someone said failing to plan is planning to fail. No one builds a house without first calculating how much it will cost, before jump starting the building only to discover the lack of resources. To save time there must be action planned to getting the task done from the initial stages to the final stages.

Delegate: This is a method of sharing responsibility with eligible people with a view to enabling you focus your attention on and dedicate yourself to major issues within the framework of the activity to be accomplished. Learning to delegate tasks that can be done by others will free you up some time to concentrate on and get the most done.

Decision: Between you and the corresponding action to be taken is the decision to take action. You find that a lot of activities are left undone just because of indecision. As a result time is wasted. So as to manage your time a clear decision should be made and implemented. Like NIKE; just do it.

Procrastination: This is one of the enemies of time management. You always have to push activities that should be done now forward or on hold until it has piled up to the point where the stacks of things to be done is daunting to say the list.

About the author :

Richard Onebamoi is a Pastor, Business Visionary & Consultant, Mentor, Entrepreneur and Infopreneur. His mission is to inspire your performance, expand your imagination, cultivate your dreams, help you discover, develop and maximize your God given potential as he seeks to advance the plan & purpose of God on the earth. He is married to Catherine and they are blessed withfour children, Naomi-Lisha, Nearia-Destinie, Nathania-Mia and Nathan-Richard. He is also a Registered Site Owner of http://www.leadership-development-resource.com