Time Management

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Time Management
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Timean interesting resource

• Unlike money, we all have the same amount of time
  24 hours every day
• We have to spend it at a constant rate of 60
  minutes to an hour
• Unlike money, we cant save it up and then go on
  a spending spree
• Time mgmt, like financial mgmt, requires analysis
  and planning

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Benefits of Managing Our Time

• More time for important things
• Better sense of accomplishment
• Lower stress levels
• More balanced life
• Better relationships
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Identify Priorities

• Distinguish between important things and urgent
  things
• Important things are the things that really
  matter to us in life
• spending quality time with loved ones
• eating right
• exercising
• Urgent things are the things we have to do on a
  daily basis
• run errands
• make phone calls
• go to appointments

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Identify Time-Wasters

• You have to know what your time wasters are so
  that you can then try to eliminate, or control,
  them
• TV
• Disorganization
• Procrastination
• Perfectionism
• Overload

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Planningthe key to success

• Planning, and sticking to it, is the key to
  successful time mgmt
• It requires some time on the front end, but saves
  you more time in the long run
• Plan for the long term and the short term

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Planning Tips

• List your goals/tasks on paper
• Set a start date/time for each
• Estimate the time it will take for each be
  realistic!
• Set a due date
• Break large tasks down into smaller tasks
• Prioritize using the A/B/C method