Developing your time management skills requires a certain
amount of discipline. And if discipline is something that is new to you, you
will have to develop these new skills as you go along. However, most of
these skills are quite easy to grasp so you will quickly adopt them and they
will become natural for you.
Perhaps the most important of these skills is the ability to plan your day.
Of course, you will also need to plan in the longer term, but to be truly
effective with your time you need to make the best possible use of the time
each day offers.
If you can plan your day well, while being open and willing to deal with any
new situations that arise, you will have developed two of the most important
time management skills.
The basic ingredient for effective daily planning is a time plan for each
and every day. This may seem like a chore, however it need only take about
five or ten minutes to do. That’s not long, is it? When you do it is up to
you. You can do it at night before you go to bed, or first thing in the
morning. I find morning the best as your mind is fresh after a good night's
sleep.
It is important to make a commitment to planning out your day before it
starts. Those 5-10 minutes will give you clarity about your actions for the
day so you are more likely to be highly productive, and feel less stress and
pressure.
For the most part, your time plan will help you be effective with your time.
However, life is unpredictable so situations will arise that you did not
account for in your time plan. Learning how to deal with these situations
effectively is another important time management skill. When this happens, I
encourage you to stay calm and not flustered. Instead, take a minute to ask
yourself what the best course of action is, and listen to the answers that
come. More often than not you will know what the right course of action is
for any given situation.
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