Time is a valuable resource because it is finite. You only have so much time in an average workday to complete everything you need to get done for the week. You only have so many months in an average school year - heck, you only have so many weeks - to turn in projects and papers on time. So, every minute wasted is another minute that could have been more appropriately designated to the project you need to get done.
Our time and attention are finite resources, and once we reach a certain level of responsibility in our professional lives, we can never fulfill all the demands we face no matter how long and hard we work. The line of people who want to see us stretches out the door and into the street. Our to-do lists run to the floor. Our inboxes are never empty.
Why You Should Be Careful About Your Time:
1. You Can Reduce Your Stress
You manage your time appropriately, you won't have to worry about the looming deadline for a project or paper because you are already working on it a little bit each day. Then, by the time the deadline rolls around.
2. You Become More Efficient
In doing so, you finish your project on time; you know you are turning in quality work, and you have given yourself more time at the end of the week to do whatever you'd like.
3. You Teach Yourself Self-Discipline
It's not even the big things that steal our time away. If you're bored while working on a project, do you stop to check Facebook or Twitter for "a few minutes"? Then, without even realizing how fast time can fly, an hour has passed.
4. You Need Your Free Time
Time management allows you to essentially budget for time to yourself. If you have a lot to keep up with like with family, work, perhaps even school, and social life, you may find it difficult or almost impossible to secure 10 minutes of alone time. But you need it.
5. You'll Learn to Appreciate Time More
When you manage your time better, you learn to appreciate time as a whole. Never again will you waste precious hours that could be better spent on a more fulfilling activity.
Why Is Time Management Important?
And Here Are 10 of the Best Ways to Manage Your Time:
1. Know Yourself. First and foremost, you have to know who you are. You can't structure your time effectively if you don't understand your dreams, strengths, challenges, and priorities.
2. Create an Action Plan. When you plan to do something, create an action plan, and give it all your focus.
3. Construct a System. Whether it's electronic or paper-based, centered on tasks or goals or events, something you purchase or develop on your own, find a system that works for you.
4. Choose your Battles. You win some, you lose some. Pick what is most important to hold on to and be willing to let go of the rest.
5. Stay Motivated. Learn what keeps you motivated and inspire yourself daily.
6. Maintain Momentum. Learn what it means to stay in motion no matter what comes your way. Momentum is key.
7. Take Notes. Save time by taking good notes, electronically or on paper. Develop a system to flag things you need to remember or act on.
8. Have an Accountability Partner. Communicate your schedule and goals with each other and meet regularly to keep each other accountable.
9. Time Yourself. If you tend to get distracted or procrastinate, time yourself. Set a timer for 25-minute intervals and commit to work without stopping or distraction in each block.
10. Turn off Notifications. Every notification you get on your computer or phone is an interruption that diverts your attention from your work. They're almost impossible to ignore, so turn them off.
The Most Productive People Know Who to Ignore
We should know that a lot of people believe they cannot reach their dreams, travel to exotic locations, land their dream jobs, finish their projects before the deadline, get enough sleep every night, and spend enough time with loved ones because they don’t have enough time.
Written By - Hossam Abdelaal
Edited By - Khushi Prajapati
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