"If you will become great, you must maximize the use of your time resource which is one of the greatest assets available to you"- Pastor E.A AdeboyeThe first step you can take is to analyse the way you are presently spending your time. Time management is life management.
A friend said "we must realize that time is pregnant with unique opportunities for mankind if we can tap into it."
If you analyse how you spend your time, you analyse how you spend your life.
There are practical steps you can take to make sure that you effectively utilize use your time. Some of such steps are;
1. Prioritize Your activities.
Do not dwell on things that are not important. Plan out your day from the most important to the least important and stick to it religiously. Your daily plans make up weekly plans and so on. Don't live your life without setting specific priorities Don't let mundane issues and sudden events determine how you spend your time.Prioritizing your work and diligently carrying them out makes you more productive.
2. Organize your activities.
If you don't properly organize that plan, you might end up spending so much time on things that would normally not require much of your time.3. Schedule your activities.
You need to have a time frame for each activity. This makes you focus on one activity at a time. It reduces clumsiness. Scheduling your time also makes you save time for other things that may come up.If you don't learn to schedule your time, it will remain impossible for you to stop time wastage.
4. Do not procrastinate.
It will only be wasteful if you took your time to schedule your activities and you still procrastinate on one or two cases.Brian Tracy would say "Eat that frog". The frog is the activity that appear to be so difficult Whatever it may take you, face that thing and deal with it. If you procrastinate at every point, you'll end up having a day without you doing anything and therefore you will be forced to move it to the next day..
5. Say "No" to friends where Necessary
I can say confidently that one of the reasons we don't finish up our schedule is friends. When friends interrupt your plan, learn to say no if it's not necessary6. Set deadlines.
I feel fulfilled when I set a target and I meet it. If you don't learn to give deadlines to yourself, duties will be prolonged.Hence quality time will be wasted. Self-appointed deadlines that you diligently stick to will help you maximize your time.
7. Take positive actions.
Be proactive. Always make efforts to approach your activities with precise decisions. Planning without implementing is a waste.If you noticed, I was using word "learn". You have to make conscious efforts to apply them. When you do them repeatedly, it gradually becomes a part of you. Cultivate good habits.
Over to you What do you have to say? How do you manage your time? Please let me know via the comment form below.
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