Need to Improve Your
Time Management Skills?
Consider this scenario:
You arrive at work, stare at the clutter on your desk for several minutes to decide where to start, and then dive in. You hope to clear the mess by lunchtime. First you check voice mail. A persistent job applicant you interviewed last week has left three messages. You dial his number and spend almost 30 minutes explaining the hiring decision protocol.
That done, you see a note on your desk from your boss asking about the status of the sales report you promised last week. Hurriedly you type a draft and rush it to your secretary for quick proofing before sending it to your boss.
Back at your desk, you next check your day planner and see you've got ten minutes to finalize a presentation for a meeting with several VPs. By now half the morning is gone. You're feeling frazzled and wishing you had more time to do everything.
- Is this scenario closer to how most of your days go than you'd like to admit?
- Does your To Do list overflow from one day to the next?
- When Friday rolls around, have you accomplished much less than you intended earlier in the week?
- Are you too busy playing catch-up on the weekends to enjoy your leisure time?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you need to take a serious look at your time management skills.
You also need to think about how your lack of time management skills creates unnecessary stress for yourself and others.
Most of us don't realize how much disorganization and procrastination stress us out. As more of us become addicted to urgency, the cost of stress in terms of ill health and lost workdays is ballooning. In the last few years managing stress has become a multibillion-dollar industry.
Before you go investing in expensive stress relief treatments, first consider changing your relationship to time.
Lots of helpful time management tips are available. Trouble is, you have to take time to find them. Some of them are free. But most of the best time management strategies are in books you have to borrow or buy.
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