Time Management Isn't About Managing Your Time, It's Getting Control of You

The Awesome Article Database

Articles Area
	Home
	Browse Articles
	Search Articles
	Submit/Edit Articles
	Get RSS Feeds
	Free Articles Content
	Most Viewed
	Popular Articles
	Latest Articles
	Most Emailed
	Articles Rating

Popular Articles
	Vitamin Capsules, Li
	Indian Baby Names -
	How To Make Money Wi
	Natural Ways to Indu
	Gastric Bypass Recov

Latest Articles
	Toronto Psychotherap
	Destination for Mili
	Retail Store for Arm
	Precision Engineers:
	Tailored-Golf Soluti

For Publishers
	Free Email Alert
	Manage Subscriptions
Guidelines
	Author
	Publishers
	Terms & Conditions
Advertise Here
	Contact Us to Advertise

Home \| Business \| Management \| Time Management Isn' ... Time Management Isn't About Managing Your Time, It's Getting Control of You Submitted by Alan on 2006-02-15 and viewed 177 times.

Rate This Article |

Add Comments |

Send To Friends|

View Comments (0)

Publisher |

Time management is more about managing you and your thoughts than about managing time itself. Doing it right can easily increase the results you produce by 50-200%. Actually it is very easy since we assume that 20 times improvement is a possibility when looking at how much time most of us waste.

Do you start off a day with the idea of getting certain things done and by the end of the day you haven�t even gotten to the things you wanted done? Then you should be working on getting control of you, getting control of how you manage you. What is getting in your way, getting between you and those things you intended to do? Is it easier to do things that are easier or more fun first? You look up at the clock and it is break time, so you go take a break, grumbling that you didn�t get to the things you really needed to do. After returning to work, of course there are a couple of those fun, easy things that you can do before you start on the tough stuff. Doing the easy things first is poor time management. It�s a habit, but habits can be changed. Do you have a priority list but things lower in priority get done first because of excuses like these: � This one is easy, I�ll do it first to get it out of the way. � The whole list of things that won�t take as long can be done fast, so I�ll start there. � This one is not as difficult�.. You get the idea. Things that you�d rather be doing, things that aren�t as difficult or challenging you�d rather do first. I believe it was Brian Tracy that said, �Eat the frog first� Swallow the things you don�t like to get them

out of the way. The idea is to do the hard stuff, and more important stuff first. Get them out of the way. When doing the easy and fun stuff first you never get to the stuff you should be doing. Keeping a time log of what you are currently doing will help you find where your time is going. Make sure to write everything down. Many times I am totally amazed seeing people coming back from doing their time log for just a week. 80-90% of their time went to the low priority stuff, not the things they should be doing, not the things that are important. I assume that: �Over 95% of everything most people do, even people who seem to have it together, is wasted time.� Just think about that! If 95% is waste, then what would happen if you put ALL of your time, or ALL of your employees� time into the 5% where you should be spending your time. Doesn�t that say that you SHOULD be able to do 20 times as much as you currently are? Sounds rather far out doesn�t it? Well it�s not too far out. If we assume that 20 times is the ideal, just how hard do you think it would be to increase your results by 50-200% when 20 times is a potential? Pretty easy really. So, start off by tracking where you are spending your time now, looking for the right things to be doing, and where time is wasted.

Article Source: http://www.awesomewebessentials.com/

Article Tags: time management training| time management| time efficiency|
Bookmark This Articles: del.icio.us * Digg it * Furl * reddit * Spurl * Yahoo MyWeb

Get free hints and tips on improving your time management skills at
http://www.leaders-perspective.com/Time-Management-Training.aspx Alan Boyer The Leader's Perspective

Are Self-Limiting Beliefs Constraining Your Sales Team?

Moving from 'Chiefs' and 'Indians' Management

Effective Management � 4 Ways to Inspire loyalty in your Business

7 Tips When Choosing Assessments

Time to Stop Yourself Doing Everything in Your Business

Stepping Into Possibility Thinking

100 Successful Management � The Ten Winning Behaviours

Tips to Avoid Business Failure

5 Ways Great Managers Improve Employee Performance

Working in Organisations

Data Storage - Managing Massive Amounts of Data

Workplace Motivation Secrets