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Time Management:
Time
Management: A Simple Definition |
To underline the importance of time management consider this benefit:
Time management skills can greatly enhance the quality of your life!
By practicing basic time management principles, individuals are often happier, enjoy more satisfaction from the things they do, and derive greater pleasure and fulfillment from the important relationships in their lives.
To help you analyze how much you could benefit from studying time management principles, answer these questions to yourself:
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1. Do you generally spend your time the way others want or the way you want?
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2. Do you spend more than a few minutes to find important papers and documents?
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3. Do you find there is not enough time to keep in good physical condition?
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4. Do you put off setting short-term and long-term goals?
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5. Do you find yourself spending too many hours in meetings that don't accomplish very much?
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6. Do you wish you had enough time for doing things you really enjoy and benefit yourself and others?
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7. Do you suffer with a guilt complex when you take a longer period of rest?
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8. Do you tend to get things done at the last minute after working furiously to complete the task?
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9. Do you find yourself busy sorting out minor problems and then suffer frustration because you cannot get to the major ones?
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10. Do you scrutinize and read carefully everything that passes through your hands?
If you answered YES to any of the above questions you WILL benefit from a consideration of time manangement.
Rather than chasing every minute or being so conscious of time that you can't bear to be inactive, understanding and practicing simple time management skills will help you get much greater pleasure and satisfaction from each day.
Just how do you learn these skills?
By:
- reading
- studying
- applying
Here are two excellent resources depending on your objective and the type of personality you have for learning time management skills :
1.
How To Get Control Of Your Time And Your Life
by Alan Lakein
This book shows you how to build your willpower, how to waste time
for pleasure and profit, and how to work smarter, not harder.
2.
Time Management For Unmanageable People
by Ann McGee-Cooper
Forget the old rules of time management. This practical and professionally
proven approach helps you create your own nonsystem that works for
you.
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