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| The Fact About Time Management |
Popular
Sayings
•Time is money
•There never enough time to do a job right, but always time to do it over
• If you want time, you must make time.
Myths of Time management
- œWith better time management, you can find new time during the day. Everyone is limited to only 24 hours each day.
- Effective time management is the same for everyone. Time management is unique for each person because each person has different priorities and goals.
- Activity is good in itself. Being busy is not the same as being effective, if time is spend on low priorities.
- Time management is a complex subject. The basic process has only five major steps.
œ Once you learn the basics of time management you automatically make better use of your time. You have to actually use time management techniques consistently.
- Good time managers are born not made. Some people seem to be more naturally organized, but everyone can learn to manage his/her time.
"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."
-- H. Jackson Brown
Time
Management is mostly about Self Management
- Self
Management Check List
- Specify a clear cut goal you want to accomplish
- œSpecify when you'll do it.
- œRecord your hit rate.
- œMake a public commitment.
- œAdd an explicit penalty for failure, if you need to.
- œThink small
- œSpecify the amount of product you're going to produce.
- Get a timer
- œArrange for regular contact with your monitor, daily or weekly as needed.
- œArrange for your friend to monitor your graphing as well as your goal attainment
- œ"Put Satan behind you." Get rid of distractions
- œRecycle.
