Time Management

Get more of your 24 hours

In this new exotic era of technology and time-saving ideas, we all have many techniques to save time and reduce effort. Still many of us fail to fulfill the demands of the clock.

Why? The answer to this very common question is straight — Time management!

Managing time is not just a single skill but it consists of many sub-skills.

1. Set priorities

One should know about his/her priorities to work accordingly and get the necessary things done first. The priorities should be about all the things that you are intended to accomplish, establish, and which are important for you and your work. Choose wisely between urgent work and important work.

The process of our prioritization ends up with a to-do list or a calendar

2. Focus on one at a time

If you want to work effectively consuming less time and effort do one task at a time. Never go for multitasking until and unless it’s a necessity. Go for one work at a time and do it well because what matters now days is quality, not quantity. Stay focused on doing your work, multitasking distracts most of the time.

3. Plan

Planning is necessary as it gives you a vision (how much it’s about to take, how you are going to do it, etc. Make decisions that fit your work needs. Ask for your colleagues for their strategies and work pattern. A good plan never consists of unnecessary steps. Arrange an order in which the tasks should be done to accomplish that work.

4. Helplines / Tools

While doing your work you can also look up for some helplines like a mobile, calculator, and internet or ask a friend to help. This way you will boost your speed and turn your hard work into smart work. One should never hesitate to ask.

• Elimination

Eliminate the tasks from your to-do list if they are not important, consume a lot of time and irrelevant, etc. As there are a hundred tasks to do daily, thus eliminating or removing some of them according to their importance is vital and significant.

Make it sure that you are not doing redundant work over important ones just for temporary pleasure, it can cost you hard.

Don’t make your life stress, be punctual. Just keep it sweet and simple and manage your time, everyone has got the same 24 hours but only a few manage them well. Try the given points above. Give time management a try. It’s a life skill.

Shivani Shukla