7 Effective Ways Of Managing Time.

Time is something precious that no one can control. We human beings have no power to control it. We live in this world which is driven by time, in which most of our activities are won’t be successful without having the skill of time management. Time management is a skill that is mostly used by organized people, people with goals and ambition in their lives.



















In today’s post am going to give you 7 effective ways on how you can manage your time. It is compulsory for anyone who wants to be successful in life must learn to implement these skills in his/her daily activities. This is simply because our success is based on how we utilize time in our daily schedule. The goals we set in our lives are usually bounded to time; we measure our success based on time.











These skills of time management are not only important for a student but also to everyone else. I’m going to tell you next time on the importance of time management, but for today let me share with you 7 effective ways on how to manage time.





1. Plan Yourself.

This is the first effective way that will give you a higher score in time management. You cannot know how to manage what you have unless you plan on how you are going to utilize it. When you want to know to utilize it, it is crucial that you make proper planning for it. You may be occupied with many tasks to do. You being the only one, it going to be very hard for you to do all these task at a go without planning yourself.



















Most of the people complain about their failure and giving out lame excuses that they failed because they had many tasks to do at a go. They say that time was too little for them to complete their task that why they failed. This happens because they never planned for the errands they wanted to do. Prior planning prevents failure. This portrays that if you want to be successful on any work you want to do then the first thing you should do is to plan yourself.



















Time is never too little as people say. It is only the matter of how you plan yourself in the way you handle your activities. This is from the evidence of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who once said that,





“One always has time enough, if one apply it well.”





On the matter of planning yourself, you should first identify the tasks you want to do. If it is possible make a list of all your tasks. Listing down the tasks will make it easier for you to make your check list that will enable you not to forget any work behind. The second thing you should do is to allocate appropriate time for each of the task you want to do. Another thing you should note down is also on how long you want to handle that chore. This will make sure that you use time efficiently on each work you want to do. This will also facilitate balance of time in every chore you want to do.



















If you will be able to plan your work in such a way, you will never fail to do any task and this will give you a good foundation of time management. You can even decide to make a timetable for all your tasks you want to do. This give you a good track on how you spend your time on the tasks you want to do.





2. Prioritize Significant Work.











After you have an idea on how you can plan yourself on the task you want to handle another thing you should know is how to keep your tasks list efficient by prioritizing the significant chores. You may be engaged with much tasks to handle, this might make you feel so stressed up. You may be wondering how you can complete those entire tasks in front of you at a go.













If you want to manage your time efficiently then you should choose tasks with higher need of being worked on. For instance if you want to cook and at the same time you want to watch movies, which task should you go about first? It is obvious you will choose to cook first; this is because you feel it is the urgent one. This shows you and I the important of doing the needs first and the wants should be dealt with at the end.









Choose your tasks wisely. Work on the tasks that you know they are more valuable. Stick to your plan thoroughly, by doing this you will know how to manage your time effectively.











3. Maximize The Chances You Get.









Time management skills can be attained by calculation. You should have a brilliant brain to calculate any time you get. Maximize the chances you get outdoors. By maximizing I mean that you should use any opportunity of time that comes in your way. Do you want to know how you can maximize the chances you get?













This is very easy and useful if you want to know how to manage your time. When you are given a task or when you are doing a task, you should handle your task with all your senses available. Handle the task carefully; take your time going through it. The reason why I’m saying you should go through your task cautiously is that it will manage your work easier, since when you will have completed the task sufficiently and you will no longer repeat the same task. Once the task is done, it is done.



















So when you have the opportunity to handle a task, handle it with a great sense of responsibility so that you avoid wasting time repeating the same task over and over again. Let people call you a slow worker, a slow learner, but once your work is done, it is perfect. This will make you use your time efficiently and at the same time produce better results of the work you handled.





4. Use Less Time For More.















This is another vital way of managing time. We often have much time to use during the day. Let me talk of class situation for those who are still in high school or college. For instance, the maximum time allocated for you to go for a break is forty minutes. If I were you I would only use twenty minutes for break time and conserve the twenty minutes for another use. I guess during a break time you don’t have much task to do. You only want to refresh yourself. You can get a drink and relax for twenty minutes and put the remaining twenty minutes in your pocket.



















So you would have saved twenty minutes. Now let us talk of the lunch hour. You have been given almost two hours for lunch. That is too much time. If I were you I would only use one hour of the two hours and put the two hours in my pocket for something essential. So how many hours have we saved? We have saved one hour and twenty minutes. Now consider that time. You have an extra hour and twenty minutes in which you do something else important.













If you will be able to be do this every day, how many hours would you have you saved in a week? In a month? In a year? You would have sufficient time that can enable you to do significant tasks. If you are a student, what will prevent you from passing? This is a tactic that I used when I was in high school. It really helped me to cover much that my classmates never covered in a day. This is what made me different from them. By managing my time effectively I managed to pass my exams. Why don’t you try it out and be like me?











5. Avoid Procrastination.

Procrastination is a great enemy of wasting time. This is what actually encourages laziness. My dear sister or brother if you have this habit, then you should let go of it. You will never be successful in whatever you are doing if your work is always to postpone the tasks you have been appointed to do. I’m considering this as a way of wasting time. When you postpone tasks it is obviously that you don’t have a schedule, if you don’t have a schedule it is clearly that you are wasting time.



















You are wasting time since you have no track of your own tasks. Nothing is more dangerous than this. If you are employed then you will be at a great risk of being fired. Your boss wants the spreadsheets filled by evening while you keep on postponing. At long last you will annoy your boss and you will end up getting fired.









Anyone with a skill of time management he/she will always do each task with its appropriate time. When you do a task with its appropriate occasion it will also make ease on you. You will not have tasks piled up during the end of the day. For instance, you dress clothes and take them off; at every end of the week you keep on saying you will wash them the coming week; you will end up with enormous task of laundry that you won’t be able to handle. Now I guess you have known the important of avoiding procrastination. Follow this tip and you will be a good master of manipulating time.











6. Organize Yourself.





How will you know to manage your time if you cannot organize yourself? A disorganized person will never know how to manage his/her time. If you are disorganized, how will you know to plan yourself? How will you know to know to choose the appropriate work at the appropriate time? How will you know to use less time for more?



















You will never have any idea on how to implement these steps in your work. This is a general term of a failure. A failure is always disorganized. A successful person is constantly organized. If you want to fail in everything then fail to organize yourself.









Organizing yourself will enhance an efficient use of time, It will enable you to have a proper planning of all the tasks you want to do. The same organization will help you to solve any chaos pertaining time; you will be able to handle each task with a good measure of time consideration. Your acts will always be based on time, you will always be punctual. This is a great way to manage your time.





7. Avoid Distractions.











Time management is all about using time so that your bear effective results from the task you are handling. To bear these effective results is you have to be determined and focused. If you want to be focused it is a must you avoid for you to avoid distractions. When you will be able to avoid distractions of every kind then you will be able to manage time.













Do you know how to avoid distractions for efficient time management?

Here is away which will help you to avoid distractions. First, before you handle any task make sure you are comfortable. Make sure that the clothes you are wearing don’t bother you. This will facilitate the speed of your tasks. The place where you sit should be free from all distractions. If you are studying, then make sure the place is free from noise. Make sure there is no one passing in front of your study table. This will give you maximum concentration on the work you want to do, thus managing your time efficiently.















Switch of your phone or put it in silent mode. This will help you concentrate on the work you are doing. If we have distractions all over, then it will be very hard for you manage your time efficiently. For example, you are typing and at the same time replying text messages from your girlfriend/boyfriend, honestly you will never finish the document you are typing so soon. By doing this you would have failed to manage your time, instead of using less for more you will be using more for less.









These are the seven effective ways on how to manage your time. Follow them keenly for you to yield better results in your daily activities. Do you have any more ways on how you can manage your time? If you have, then please leave your comment below.





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