Time Management

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed. -Peter Drucker

Managing time equals to managing ourselves:

• Know yourself- Manage yourself to make the best use of time
• Complete your goals within the time limit
• Complete more goals and enrich your life.

Goldberg’s Big 5 Personality (OCAEN)

1. Plan Your Day

Preparedness(time plan) ensures success and unpreparedness(no time plan) spells failure.

Some Tips:

• Every morning, please do a whole day plan
• Do a plan, review before the end of the day
• Prioritize the subjects

Record and review your time is quite interesting, it like a kaleidoscope.

2. Optimize your tasks category continuously

Focus on the important part, not the urgent part. You may delegate some of them in that case.

3. Become an excellent multitasker

Intentionally switch between different tasks will help you work/learn better. It makes boost your productivity.

It is also a good way to solve procrastination.

“Putting off things is the biggest waste of life” -Seneca

It snatched away each day as it comes and denies us the present by promising the future.

4. Small moments can have great power

• Social media is addictive false happiness, keep it silent when you focus on work.
• 25 min focus on per task then take a 5 mins break (Pomodoro, I have mentioned in my previous blog.)
• Commit yourself to routines and tasks each day.
• Reward yourself
• Check to procrastination clues out
• Most complex tasks come first
• DO it right now! not later

You can make a decision and become a master of your habit.

5. Reach your best time (FLOW)

If you keep away from interruption it is easy to stay into the flow, its high skill set.

Do something that scares you, face new challenges, get out your comfort zone! It’s good practice to increase efficiency.

6. Are you able to hold/join the meeting?

Participants at the meeting should take a role in proactively.

Host: The purpose of the meeting and agenda should be clear. Send notification, ask participants to preview the documents and agenda some day in advance.

During the meeting, the host is responsible for controlling the progress, unexpected discussion, and time, summarizing the key points.

Meeting of Minutes should be written properly which includes background, main conclusions, open tasks.

7. Reward yourself!

Reward as feedback can strengthen our behavior.

8) Sleep and exercise are very important for your efficiency

You have opportunities to improve make changes!

Time management(self-management) need to be continuously improved since success is not that easy to get.