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Hi everyone it's my pleasure to write again on this platform, thanks to all of you who have been supportive especially @xkool24 and @hisgeneral, I really appreciate your effort.
The topic I want to discuss today is a very important one that will be of great important and beneficial to everyone who wants to be financially secured. The topic of today is Time Management. Thank you for reading.
Before I talk about time management, I will like to briefly discuss about time.
What is Time: Time can be defined as the duration of an event. It is the period taken to accomplish a particular task or function.
It shows or indicate the period an event takes place either in the past, present or future.
The measurement of time is done in units of seconds, minutes and hours.
Examples of time include: stop watch, timer, clock etc.
Management: Management is the process of planning, organising, controlling a person, organisation etc, in order to attain desired goals and objectives.
It is the process of getting things done by others. Having known the meaning of time and management, then what is time management?
The term time management is the process of planning the amount of time to be spent on a task, organising how it should be done and controlling the time in accomplishment of a specific function in order to attain effectiveness and efficiency. This sometimes posseses some challenges on the individuals concern and this often leads to poor performance. Since inadequate use of time can lead to poor performance then, how can you manage your time?
There are different ways one can manage his /her time. The following are the things to do in order to manage your time effectively:
1 Planning
2 Arrange your task in order of priority
3 Always be focus
4 Avoid multitasking
5 Allocate a specific time to accomplish a task
6 Always take a break in between task
Planning is a means of arranging before time what to do and how to get it done. In planning your time, you must know when you are most active and when you are less active. Set out the time you are most nning your days for the difficult and important tasks while the less challenging and less important activities. should be reserve for the ti me you are less active. Proper thinking and arrangements should be done in planning how much time you spend in carrying out your daily activities.
Arranging task in order of their priority implies that you place your tasks in order of their needs.
Tasks that are urgent should be placed first before those that are not yet urgent or important. You don't have to spend time attending to the less important needs while neglecting the importance ones.
Set a scale of preference in order to prioritize wisely. Prioritising wisely will help you maximize your time effectively and efficiently.
When performing a particular task, don't give room to distractions. Distractions are one of those things that can reduces your productivity standard and capacity. Social media is one of the sites that distracts people from their priority tasks. Colleagues can also be a huge form of distractions. Colleagues can come up with unnecessary stories or irrelevant tasks in order to make you divert from your major task. You have to try in order to reduce and avoid distractions. Put restrictions on some certain things in order to eliminate distractions. Focus is the key no matter how distractions might come always remain focus in order not to waste or invest your time in unnecessary issues.
The term multitasking is the way or process of carrying out more than one task at a time. When you try to do many things at a time, you end up wasting time in achieving nothing. Multitasking is a means of distracting you from performing the specific tasks. When you are doing many tasks at a time, you may end up not even accomplishing any of the task. In order to avoid it always perform one duty at a time, this will help you manage your time effectively.
In accomplishing a specific task, time yourself. You don't have to use the whole time in a day to perform a task. Whenever you want to perform a task, give yourself time. For instance, you want to carryout a short term project which can last within a day, you don't have to use the whole day in doing it you can allocate like 6hours then you begin to work towards the time you have allocated to yourself. If by chance you were unable to meet up, you can still allocate another time by so doing, you won't spend the whole time in performing one task.
All time working without playing makes someone a dull person. When you are performing a task, break is very important. Break helps you to relieve stress, get relaxed and regain strength for other tasks. When you don't give yourself break, you becomes tired , you just end up spending time making a lots of mistakes. When you get stressed and tired while performing a task, please try and get rest by giving yourself a break. Doing this will help you in making effective use of your time.
Knowing how to manage your time is very important in the sense that it helps in attaining success in project accomplishment. Time management is important in the following ways:
It enhances your performance: when you manage your time, it helps to improve your performance rate. You will be able to achieve much within a short period of time.
Guarantees Better Results: When you manage your time well definitely, you will get a better output order than when you don't organise your time, because you are not in any form of pressure you are ready to deliver a neat and accurate job. People who doesn't organize their time end up wasting time and not achieving a better result.
You Deliver your Work Early: Because you are organise and you complete your task on time.
Eliminates Stress: When you plan yourself properly, you won't be in any form of pressure which can lead to stress.
Create Employment Opportunities: There is no employer who will want to employ someone who is a time waster. If you are someone who utilizes his time properly will always have opportunities of getting employment.
Improves Self Confidence: Someone who delivers a task as of when due, will always feel good about him/herself.
Increases your Efficiency: when you are a good time manager, you boost your efficiency level and becomes more competent in carrying out your duties and functions.
Having known the importance of time management, it is very expedient to train and build yourself in such a way that you will be able to come to the level of managing your time.
If you must be successful and productive, you must be a good time manager. As an adage rightly quotes " time is money". Invest your time effectively in order to be efficient and become financially stable and secure.
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@xkool24
@hisgeneral