Personal time Management will help you enter, engage, and experience what you were created for.
Today we continue on tips for time management in order to gain the life you want. You can read part one here.
To get where you want to in life, you are going to have to reflect and be a steward of the time you have. You only have so much time in your life.
How are you going to use the time you have been given?
1. Scheduling is your friend.
Either you control your life or something else well. I know right away some are saying I am just not a calendar person. Again, either you control your life or something else well.
Here are a few thoughts I find helpful around scheduling time.
a. Make sure to keep margin in your life. When booking appointments, give a little extra time. Why? Sometimes you may need it, but if not, enjoy the moment.
b. Schedule time with yourself and your family.
c. Keep 50% of your time involved in things that get the results you are wanting.
d. Schedule start and end times for your activities.
e. First 30 min. of day given to plan the day.
f. Schedule an extra 5 minutes for review of task completed or conversation at end of the hour or day.
g. Establishing a daily, month, weekly routine that will move you forward
h. ______________(What would you add?)
2. Reality Check Experiment
Spend a week recording everything you do. Put down the places you have been and the people you spoke with. Write down a summary of what you did each hour. This will help see where you are spending your time.
Here is a free spread sheet template. You can use it on your phone to help track your time.
3. It’s impossible to get everything done – live with it.
Seriously, it is impossible to get everything done. Take the time to understand how long you need and break things down into small chunks. It will lower your stress level. However at the end of the day understand there will always be something you need to do.
Celebrate what you have accomplished. What tips do you have that are useful?