Time Management Methods for Daily Activities - Part 2

Organization For Better Time Management  ( Continued ... ) 

Listed below are some methods that you can apply into your schedule :

3. Have goals, specific ones : Whatever your goal is, it helps provide direction to whatever it is you need to do for a certain period of time. Hence, specify your goals according to activities you need to do for the day, week, or within the month.

4. Use organizational tools : By being disorganized, you could lose precious time attending to unimportant tasks instead of utilizing them for more important activities. Hence, keep your things organized and orderly for easy access when needed.

5. Do not procrastinate : Whatever you can do for today, do it now. Never put off something because you’ll never know when you’d have the time to work on them.

Evaluate Daily Activities

To setup an effective time management system, you need to look into every detail of your daily activities. Hence, you can identify which activities are important and which ones are not, as well as how much time is consumed.

Create a daily schedule that you need to follow strictly. Then, you can check that at each start of the day. When you have a schedule, you can divide up your activities evenly to avoid being overwhelmed with activities at a certain time of day.

Aside from organizing your activities within the day, you can use your daily schedule of activities for evaluation on your level of productivity. As you examine the activities, take note of each one and the time spent. Do these activities contribute to the accomplishment of your goals? Are you focusing your efforts and time on necessary things? If not, then you are not maximizing your time well.

These are just basic time management procedures you can follow so you can achieve more in less time.

Concluded 

Source : Tickled By Life by Guest Tickler

Time Management Methods for Daily Activities - Part 1

There are several concepts and approaches that aim to improve your time management skills. However, most of them seem to rest on unrealistic concepts that actually achieve nothing. Effective time management entails the maximum use of whatever time that is available each day to enable you to accomplish designated tasks.

Understanding the Concept of Time

It might be a cliché but time is indeed gold. Once it is lost, you can never regain it. Therefore, as much as possible, you want to make the most of your time by aiming towards increased productivity.

How many times have you experienced having to scramble with your tasks just to complete them in time? When you evaluate your activities, you’d realize that you spend one afternoon watching TV or playing video games. Then, the next day you are bombarded with tasks that you must finish. However, the limited time you have left just seems not enough.

Until that happens, you never really realize the full value of time. Hence, it is important that you look for ways to maximize your time to make room for all your work and recreational activities.

Organization For Better Time Management

One way to maximize your time is by learning how to organize your activities according to how much time you need to work on them. Listed below are some methods that you can apply into your schedule:

1. Make a To-do list : This is the basis of all time management systems. Whether it be an electronic device or the traditional post-it notes, this is where you refer on what activities you need to get done on a certain period of time.

2. Prioritizing your list : Aside from making a list, you also need to list them according to the most important or urgent tasks. Hence, you finish those that needs to get done first on time before moving on to the next task.

To Be Continued....

Source : Tickled By Life by Guest Tickler

Self Help Mantras - To Reduce Stress & Simplify Your Life !

Let go of a stressful lifestyle with easy steps

Life is a like a roller coaster, which has its ups and downs. Though it can never be hassle-free, one can simplify it. Working long hours and maintaining busy lifestyles may be exciting and enriching, but can also leas to a feeling of constant stress. A well-known lifestyle & weight management expert says "For fitness, people take up complex exercises which are in vogue, when they should instead do yoga or walk. Even in terms of diet, people should make simple changes, such as eating high-fibre food, regular meals and cutting back on junk food."

Here are five mantras to reduce the stress of life :

FOCUS ON THE DETAILS

Don't let small problems escalate and dominate our lives. Give them the importance they deserve. Write a list of goals you'd like to achieve and focus on doing these really well.

CLEAR CLUTTER

Don't hoard things. Keep what you need and throw away what you never use. Clearing out the clutter means you can be more organised and find things you need quicker.

AUTOMATE WHAT YOU CAN

Making little changes to your daily routine like setting up automatic timers to watering your plants or turning off your lights, signing up for automatic bill pay options, or getting off junk mails lists can be an easy way to simplify life.

LEARN TO SAY NO

We agree to requests from others, because we like to please them. Instead, realize that you have a right to say no. While most of us have hectic schedules these days, it's important to make time for exercise, hobbies and other stress relievers, as well as time for our relationships. Don't worry about pleasing everyone. If you try to do that, you will undoubtedly fail and make yourself unhappy. Consider what is right for you, rather than what other people expect you to do.

DON'T LET TECHNOLOGY CONTROL YOU

Stop being a slave to present-day communication tolls. If you are at the beck and call of technology, you will always be busy. people lived quite well before the invention of hi-tech gadgets, mobile phones and Internet. use them, but keep them in their proper place. Don't be bombarded by technology.

Source : Timesgroup