Time management is a skill that can help you to be more productive, achieve your goals, and lead a more balanced life.
Tips to improve your Time Management skills
- Set clear goals: The very first thing for a better time management is to set clear goals. You need to know what you want to achieve. Set clear and specific goals for yourself, and then create a plan to achieve them.
- Prioritise your tasks: Not all tasks are important and urgent. Prioritise your tasks according to their level of importance, and work on the most important & urgent tasks first.
- Log your daily activities: It’s a good practice to log your daily activities. This will help you to understand where you spend your time and work on it.
- Create a schedule: It’s important to schedule your tasks, reminders and appointments. You can use an application or planner for this. This will help you to stay organised and on track.
- Take breaks: Taking regular breaks can help you to stay focused and avoid stress. Keep a reminder to take short breaks.
- Eliminate distractions: Distractions can be a major time-waster. Identify the sources of distraction in your environment, and take steps to eliminate them. Eliminate distractions such as social media while working.
- Stay flexible: Things don’t always work according to your plan. So stay flexible and stick to your plan.
We all forgets the most important fundamental principle of managing our time, to be able to measure our time. If you don’t know where the time goes during your day, in which things, and why? Were those things important to you? Were they only urgent things? Then you’ll never be able to control your time. Because you don’t even know what it is, what it is that you are trying to fix?
Do you think an application can help you to manage your time effectively ?
FocuzWiz
- You will be able to create focus areas. Focus area is something that you want to focus on your life to make a positive impact. This can be your goal or the steps to achieve your goal.
- You can create Tasks and Reminders under a focus area with its priority. So you can take up tasks based on importance and urgency. Once you complete a task you can mark it as completed.
- Timelog is a time diary where you can easily log your daily activities. Spent time of each task will be calculated automatically according to the time of next log you add. You can tag the focus area and tasks here.
- Based on your activity log an Eisenhower Matrix will be generated in the dashboard. Where you can see the tasks listed based on importance and urgency.
- You will be able to add Mentors/Collaborators to a focus area. Once they accept the invitation they will be able to monitor the focus area. This could be useful in parenting.
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