Do you have trouble focusing on whatever you are working on? Do you struggle to finish projects you have started? How do you know if you have problem with keeping focus? If you have a number of partly finished projects collecting dust, or if you constantly get angry with yourself for not following through with what you start, you have trouble focusing.
Do you have too much to do and never enough time to complete all those tasks in a satisfactory way? Maybe you’ve attended courses which aim to teach you ‘time management’ and yet have not been able to put what you learned into practice. Being able to do those things is as much about organising your life more effectively as purely to do with time.
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There are very many reasons why a person does procrastinate. Let us examine just a few.
One reason may be that you don’t think to be competent enough for this task or duty. This can conduct a person to not beginning what should be done. And once this idea has come up, procrastination may become a long- term situation. It can last until the opportunity to carry out the task has gone. That means disappointment. Just to start with. The person may think that next time they will really do the job and then, maybe, they feel again incompetent. And nothing will be done.
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Time management is usually associated with managing your time, but now you can actually speed up your time, getting more things done in less time. How? If you’re like me, you have a lot of videos on your computer, or on various membership sites you belong to. I spend many hours each week watching and learning new tips, tools and strategies. Everything from internet marketing to investing.
The holiday season is portrayed as a wonderful time where everyone is happy and tranquility reigns but for many people it’s a time of increased anxiousness. Some time management tips can help reduce the stress and help you really enjoy the time of the year.
“There is more to life than increasing it’s speed”- Ghandi
Somewhere along the line, for most of us, life became an endless To-Do List of tasks and errands. We fell into a vicious “cram-it-in and cross-it-off” cycle. Life began to look really dull as one day just faded into the next. Even purely pleasurable activities, like eating, holidays and sex wound up as just another chore. We are over- scheduled, exhausted zombies.
Do you ever feel pressured to get things done? Ever feel like you don’t have enough time in the day?
I hate when people cry about not having enough time to get projects done.
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Do you procrastinate? That’s a silly question because we all do, to a greater or lesser degree. Procrastination is simply putting off until tomorrow something you can do today. The jobs we put off are those that we find to be boring or monotonous or (we think) involve too much work. We say we don’t have time to do these things. And the truth is the job/task becomes more unpleasant the longer we put off doing it. Fortunately there are some techniques to help you stop procrastinating. Try them and see what works for you.
Congratulations on taking the first step to overcoming procrastination. If you’re anything like me and I’ve got a strong feeling that you are then you have an outlook on life that goes something like “Anything worth not doing is worth not doing well!” It’s close, but we’ve got just a little bit of tweaking to do.
What is time management? How can you manage your time? Do you have enough time to do what you want during your day?
Time is a valuable thing that we all have, yet many people don’t know how to use it wisely. The most common statement that I hear all the time from people is “I don’t have time.” Many people keep coming up with excuses for not doing what they love to do such as reading, exercising, spending time with the family among other things. Some people, however, who are the minority, say there is not enough time to do what they want to do in their day.
Time management tips can give you so much more than time. You can dignify your day and reduce stress, too. When you utilize these 3 guidelines, you generate coherence and meaning.
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Now that the year is almost over and you begin to reflect on improving for 2011, let’s focus on time management. How are you at time management? Or as I like to refer to time management, how is your personal productivity?
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Imagine that you have the following set of appointments and tasks for the day:
Appointments:
10:00-11:00 Dr. K. Complete Physical
11:00-12:00 New Project Kickoff Meeting
12:00-1:00 Lunch with JD
1:00-2:00 Staff Meeting
2:00-3:00 Video Conference with London Team
One of the easiest ways to instantly become more productive is to allocate activities that are similar into certain “zones.”
Each week you probably perform activities that are quite similar to one another or may even be the same activity but performed at different times. Grouping these activities together into one “action” means that you can accomplish the same or better results in a much shorter time.
If you had more free time in your personal and work life, how would you use it? What would life be like if you could truly take greater control of time? It may be easier than you think to improve your quality-of-life with some guided reflection, homework and practical neuroscience tools to increase personal productivity.
The world is in a rush. Every where you look, you see busy people who are on the move. The day begins with getting up early, catching up with the morning train or bus as the case may be. Having lots of work to do in the office, scheduled meetings to attend, and project deadlines to meet.
Almost everyone delays tasks. For some it is just minor, for others it becomes the chronic delay known as procrastination. People have different types and excuses for procrastinating. By knowing what your reason for chronic delay you will be better able to control it and get yourself to work.
A good exercise for completing a list of priority tasks is to use a system called time-blocking. Having compiled a list of specific tasks to be completed within a given week, you should have those tasks written down in a priority order. Now on a weekly calendar these can now be placed into time slots each broken down into 15 minute segments, this is the process of time-blocking. The beauty of this system is that it does not have to just be used with work tasks, it can equally be applied to home life as well.
Did you know that there is a thing called ‘post materialism blues’? I think people get it when they realize they’ve spent an inordinate amount of time, effort and money to ‘get’ material things, only to realize that once they’ve got them, any happiness those ‘things’ brought, quickly evaporates. I have certainly known the feeling. I was once lucky enough to pick up a brand new Mercedes from the dealer. Yes, it was mine (and the finance company’s). I had worked hard for it and I felt I deserved it. At the time, I was also trying to demonstrate externally a level of success that wasn’t really there. Still, it did feel good driving it away from the showroom. In fact, it felt very good. Very good indeed.
Managing your time is more than managing your work – it’s managing your life. The essential ingredients are realistic honesty and the ability to say no.
I have a friend who is chronically late-forever playing catch up. For me, she is an irritant because she refuses to change even when I have given her the tools to do so. She believes her life is so much more involved than the lives of those around her so everyone should understand. What a crock of hooey.
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