Time Management 101
Can I become a happier person with better time management?
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Wow - Recently I have really felt the pinch of time. I have lists and lists multiple pages and tablets deep that acquire new tasks faster than I can remove them.
I am a list person - I have lists for things I need to do today, this week, month and year. I have lists breaking my day down by how long I expect the task to take so I can fit it into a time slot when I have a free moment. I have systems to determine long term goals and dependent tasks. I have lists created for things I must pick up next time I go to the store grouped by how close the stores are and what time I have available. I have sliced and diced things so many ways in search for the perfect solution more times than I can count. Excessive – possibly .. but our success is so often tied to time. Success of a relationship, carrier, friendship and overall wellbeing.
I have been working on a better overall time management involving breaking down my time into “goals” first. Picking three goals from my overall yearly goals (work related) … Breaking the goals down into objectives .. breaking the objectives into milestones and breaking the milestones back into tasks. In the mean time I am also using the Drucker time management assessment process for the next three weeks to better align my time with my tasks. You can find more info about Drucker here http://www.friendly-ware.com/dtm/whyShldCr.htm
Time management is not a new concept to me or will this be my last attempt to find a better model.
Peter Drucker “The output limits of any process are set by the scarcest resource. In the process we call “accomplishment”, this is time … Of the other major resources, money is actually quite plentiful … People … one can hire. But one cannot rent, hire, buy or otherwise obtain more time.”
More to come …