TIME MANAGEMENT

“ There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens. ” - Ecclesiastes 3 : 1

Hey everyone !!!

I hope everyone is comfortably seated and ready to get some spice !

I am pretty sure everyone has a little idea of how important it is to manage his or her time effectively. We have so many plans, long and tiring schedules and we want to be as productive as possible. At this point you may or not have heard about so many ways on how to be productive, but do they actually work? We tend to always procrastinate and push back on things we are actually suppose to do. Hence the question is , what could be the best way to manage our time? These are the tips, I use which would more likely work with most people.

1) You can’t do everything at once

Sometimes in our zeal to be extremely productive, we tend to believe we are superman or superwoman. Hence we plan our day with a schedule that barely gives us 10 minutes to breathe out! This does not work, it might work for you for one week but the following week, you are so tired that you’re unable to do what you were suppose to do that specific week.

To give a clear example if there are 10 things that you need to do today, ask yourself the question; what do I really need to do? To be honest, most of the times we don’t need to do all of those 10 things that same day but we only need to do 7 of them! Focus on that and get it done… If you truly truly truly need to do all of them, start with the easiest one ( less time consuming) and wrap up with the rest!

2) Keep it short !

This point joins what I mentioned above. When you make a schedule that is very long , most of the time you do not succeed in doing them! Keep your list or schedule , straight to the point! The longer your list is, the more discouraged you might tend to be to execute it!

3) Avoid doing things successively

This is definitely one aspect that makes time management stressful. For example, If you plan to do task A from 11 to 11.30 am, do not plan to do task B from 11.30 to 12 pm , then task C from 12 to 12.30 pm . It does not work ! Why? Because you will always be stressed about the time. Provide a gap of 10 to 30 mins between each task .

4) Be realistic about your time

Sometimes, if not most of the time, we lied ourselves about how much time we actually need to fully complete a task. We want to believe that we can do things faster than we actually can! It is great if you want to challenge yourself but risky if your schedule is tight! If you are aware that you actually need 2 hours to complete a task effectively, make sure you actually allow yourself two hours to do it.

For example; if your task A is from 1 pm to 2 pm and task B is 2 pm to 4 pm. However you finish task A at 3 pm , what happens is that

a) You don’t respect you schedule

b) It delays the time at which you were supposed to do task B

c) You might end up stressed and not achieve what you planned to do

Conclusion : Be realistic with the time you truly need !

5) The simple but tricky task !

Can we all agree the simple tasks are the hardest to do ? They look so simple that we end up not doing them, right? They are so easy that we think we will always have time to do them and the day we are supposed to do them, we either forget, remember at the last minute or when it’s too late! My solution? Do it immediately! it does not matter if the due date is in two weeks, if it is a task that you will do in less than an hour, do it now! Why? Simple tasks are like mosquitoes , as soon as you see them, you need to kill them. Do you need the mosquitoes, to bite you, suck your blood and gain weight before you kill them ? NO! The same rule applies to simple tasks. As soon as you know you have to do them, do it and pull it off of your list! BOY, BYE !

TO BE CONTINUED … IN THE MEANTIME SPICE YOUR TIME MANAGEMENT UP!

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