Effective Time Management

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Time management is a very essential part of our life; we need to manage time we have, to get the best results, either in personal or professional life. The excuse we all have, with no second thoughts in mind, I have no time. God has blessed all the humans with the same time, yet some people make the most out of it, and are able to accomplish many things in life, and majority of them are spending their life complaining, we have no time. What is the difference? Those who make out the best are the ones who know how to manage time, to get what they want in life.

Time management is usually, planning your time in such a way, that you achieve desired results and goals, in a day, week, month and year wise. We all have different kinds of goals, short term and long term, when we know where we want to go, and what we want to achieve. We need to plan the action part of that goal, and then divide it into small parts, day wise, week wise, month wise and year wise. For example take an athlete, his goal is to win a medal, it is his goal, for that how he needs to manage his time?

He needs to spend, so many hours a day exercising, so many hours a day practicing. Then on observation, observing the best players and learning from them. All this does not happen in a day, it is continuous process, and it takes time. And to achieve all this managing time is very important, and for that, planning is very important, planning each day and every hour how to spend, where to spend and with whom? If an athlete manages his time planning this way, he will be able to achieve his goal. The same holds true for any other person, goals may differ but procedure remains same.

Following are some effective ways to manage the time, and to achieve your goals, let have a look at them:

• Plan each day, and if possible every hour, write a to-do list and prioritize tasks.
• Referring to your goals, before you plan your day is an important thing to do; this will help you fix your priorities.
• If you want to accomplish goals, it is very important that you start delegating the tasks that are in the bottom of your priority list, this way you will save time for more important things, and can spend your time there.
• Break down big things, or things that require lot of time to do, into small segments, and doing them, will make work easy and lessen the stress level.
  Keeping a dairy and planning your activities is the best way to know how, and where, you are spending your time, this way you will be able to divert your time and energies to the more important tasks in your priority list.
• To manage time effectively we need to have minimum of distractions, and the best way, not to get distracted, is to stay focused on the goal.

Following these simple and effective tips will help us manage our time properly, and make the best out of our life.