“In all planing you make a list and you set priorities” Allan Lakein
Hello everyone hope your Thursday is going well. Do you feel like your days aren’t as productive as you would like? No worries friends today this post will give you a few quick suggestions on how to better manage your time. Everyone has a different approach to managing their time, I will share mine along with some quick tips to better managing your time. The way that I choose to manage my time in three steps influenced by the well known time management author Alan Lakein. His steps to having a successful task list organization include: listing all of our tasks from most to least important. Although this method is wonderful and it is the one I use myself, one variation I have included is to list my tasks in importance but also for errands and such tasks to list them in the direction in which I will be traveling in order to utilize my time, gas and efficiency. Through doing some further research on time management I have come across a few great tips to assist you in better managing your time and productivity. According to professional well known organizer Julie Morgenstern here are a few of her “do’s and don’ts” of time management …
- Map out everything that is important, by making a task list
- Create “an oasis of time” for one to control
- Say “No”
- Set priorities
- Don’t drop everything
- Don’t think a critical task will get done in one’s spare time
Great ideas! I’m such a list maker. I’ve often thought that the list making wasn’t working for me until I stopped. Now I know what a difference it made!