Week 4 [16.04-22.04.2018] ‘I have no time!’ – how not to waste your time and manage it in a better way.
Week 4 [16.04-22.04.2018] ‘I have no time!’ – how not to waste your time and manage it in a better way.
Firstly let’s think for a while what the time
exactly is? We have to leave aside for a moment scientific definitions. Time is something we deal with
every day and something that everyone
thinks they understand. That’s because there is no one simple and satisfactory
definition of time. In my article, I want
to write about time as something that is priceless nowadays and seems to pass
by faster and faster. People have a lot
of things to do and the world is giving
us so many opportunities that each of us is
starting to regret that a day
has only 24 hours. That’s why time management has become so important and people developed many techniques to help
organise it.
Establish
prioritized goals
If we don’t have goals we often try to chase after whatever. We get easily distracted. A good idea
is to set yearly, monthly, weekly or daily goals. Then you have to add importance (A=high,
B=medium, C=low) and urgency (1=high,2=medium, 3=low) rank. After doing this
remember always to deal firstly with most urgent and important tasks (A1).
Pareto Principle
(80/20 Rule)
This rule seems to be the best
among all principles of time and life management. It’s called after its founder, the Italian economist, Vilfredo
Pareto. He noticed that 80 percent of
your result comes from only 20 percent of your actions. It’s good to remember it and prioritize your
time for most important goals.
Learn to say “No”
This seems to be a trivial
thing but in most cases, people don’t realize sometimes how important it is to
be assertive. Even if the request from
someone is something you’d like to do, remember that it can’t conflict with
your most important goals. Of course, you often can avoid saying ‘No’ and for instance,
try to negotiate a deadline.
Those are only a few of all
techniques but it’s possible that you can manage your time without using
them. For example, I don’t use any
technique but somehow connect them all to my own one. I often try to think
which activities are the most important for me, I also like to help people but I know when to be assertive. When
I was younger I used to do things at the
very last minute. Nowadays I can’t allow
myself to live that way and I always try to do everything as early as I can.
What about you?
-Have
you ever tried any time management technique?
-How
do you generally manage your time(maybe life) when you have a lot of things to
do?
-Do
you even pay attention to time management? Or maybe you don’t have to and everything
is ok?
Links:
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Comments
I schedule my week. That all. I try to stay productive, not just busy. I also schedule my free time to have some fun. Usually this activity extends itself at the expense of others :)
What about managing time now. I prioritize what thing from my "to do" list is the most important now and allocate more time for this, but if it's not a deadline thing I try to spend on it at least 15-30 minutes.
I think, time management is worth to try and then decide for yourself do you really need this or not.
This also explains how I manage my time. This system falls apart when for some reason I don't have a lot of things to do, but such situations don't happen too often.
I think that more important than time management is keeping track of all of the tasks I have to do and their deadlines, because it's easy to forget about something. So I always keep my to do list handy.
I think that time organization is only needed when you have a lot of things to do - so the question doesn't have to be narrowed down I usually try not to procrastinate and in order to calm my conscience, I try to do something every day. In that way, I go to sleep without feeling of guilt that I've wasted time during the day.
In my opinion, if you don't have to put any effort into time management and go away with it, it means that you don't really have so much stuff to do (which ultimately may mean that you don't live an interesting life! But let's not jump into that conclusion.) Everyone, who has lots of duties sooner or later will have to face time management issues.
I think, that time management techniques might help many people, who are rather chaotic. For others, I think it is not necessary.
Always then I use the method, probably the most popular one. I writes down all the things I have to do and the date by which I have to do it. Of course, I start with things that are for now and then, if I still have time, I do these things for later.
I always have to control the time so as not to sit on the phone for too long by accident.
For the first time when I tried to manage time it happened in Poland, though I realized that it was too late for me, and there was no sense, I found myself in a chaotic position, so I returned to my old method that nothing should happen too far, and now it all works well. When I have lots of stuff to do I categorize and prioritize them, first i do most difficult ones.
I am happy with my current approach of time managing.
According to the situation in my life, managing time for me is one of the principles that I always do.
-Prioritizing tasks.
Use of unused times or times that are defined as wait times.
- It’s hard to manage your time if you’re letting so much of it slip away as you perform activities without actually focusing on them and extracting value from the experiences. And then there’s that demon called distraction, constantly waiting in the wings to pry us from the task at hand.
Another trick which I use is to focus only on a one given task and try to leave it in a state that can be considered as completed (either finished or with associated action points which have to be taken to complete it) because context switching between many tasks in the same time is very inefficient.
Everyday I'm making something like "todo list" and I'm trying to do it until I go to sleep. I'm so happy when I do at least a part of this list :) It works and I don't want to change it.
As I wrote above. I try to do everything as fast as I can. Of course, if I have a lot of things to do that I can't do at once, I try to take a break and finish it the next day.
I usually don't pay attention to time management. Currently, I don't need to manage time
I work in IT, so I everyday use some techniques that allow prioritize your tasks, e.g. SCRUM, KANBAN...
-How do you generally manage your time(maybe life) when you have a lot of things to do?
I use calendar planning for everyday task, and establish yearly goals every New Year night, that I try to achieve. And at the end of the year I estimate result.
-Do you even pay attention to time management? Or maybe you don’t have to and everything is ok?
Of course, I described it before.
Since high school I'm writing a simple todo list that contains all the things that have to be done by the deadline.
Than I estimate one by one the total time of them.
My general rule is to spend the least amount of time on things that I dont like: ex: studying, learning
and the most time on things that are fun ex: drinking, smoking weed. Remember life is short. Don't waste it.
How do you generally manage your time(maybe life) when you have a lot of things to do?
Maybe it is not strictly time management technic as shown but I try to plan in time things to do in next day for example before go to sleep. But it is not the technic as you provided, that I label task or something. In my work we have systems that provide task and time management but in my private life I do not use those systems.
Do you even pay attention to time management? Or maybe you don’t have to and everything is ok?
Of course I pay attention to time management but not so hard, I try to do things as they come or jus before deadline.
When I really have a lot of things to do I just have to give up on some things of lesser importance, like going out or having fun. I think that it's pretty difficult to manage the time in an effective way for some of us, since all of the plans have to involve work, studies and life at the same time.
I often try to manage the time, at least in very basic terms of doing it. The problems start to arise when I forget that I have something planned for next week and I'm not prepared to do such a giantic workload at once.
I am happy with my current time menagment, but I can alway do it better, squeeze more activitis in my day, but like always, I'm just too lazy to do that - I will work on that, promise!
My best management technique is writing all things to do on the list. It works always.
It's good because it is simple and we don't need to work with any application ( but also we can! ) and wasting our time for it. I generally use "to do" list but only when i have more things to do than always.
I'm studing manegament so i know that time menagemen is very important and it can change our life!
When I have a lot of things to do I write it all down to my notebook or to app I have mentioned before.
I did not pay any attention to time management. I usually do things spontaneously and do not care about organizing.
The most important thing when you have lots of tasks is too strict with your rules. I'm using calendar app to manage all my time and invite my friends to the events they participate. With this, I manage to have everything planned.
I think it's important to manage your time in a way that you won't regret it in next couple of years. It takes time to realise that your life has the only limited amount of minutes and it's not the that significant number, so you should value each minute and live at full as long as you can.
Not really, but I do prioritise my tasks and definitely not using any FIFO methods. Although I have heard about many of techniques, I manage to resolve my tasks on my own.
2. How do you generally manage your time (maybe life) when you have a lot of things to do?
I tend to write down all my things to do, then sort them by priority and deadline. Then, one by one, I just resolve them.
3. Do you even pay attention to time management? Or maybe you don’t have to and everything is ok?
When there is a lot of stuff to do - yes, I do pay attention to time management. But in general, I find it stressful and always prefer to not care about time.
I think that everything is okay, but you know - time management could be profitable for everyone.