Exercising time management requires – you guessed right – time. It appears a touch of an anomaly, does not it? To develop effective time management ability, you may take more time out of your busy day that already contains more jobs than you have the time to do. But the investment of time used to arrange your time will create more time available to you in time.
So if you are already beaten by your to do list, and you end up making excuses not to do what you know must be done, then you need some incentive. You will find that inducement in the enormous benefit of time management.
And what might that large benefit of time management be, you ask?
Freedom and Happiness!
Give it some thought for a second. Why is it that when you can’t can not drag yourself out of bed at seven hundred to get to work by eight hundred, you may jump out of bed with great zeal on a weekend at five hundred to spend a day in your favourite hobby or pasttime? Because the leisure activity brings you joy. You are incentivized to get out of bed as you know the day will bring you contentment, as against the workday that brings anguish.
So, in order incentivize yourself to exercise effective time management, you need to use the carrot of the Enormous Benefit of Time Management instead of the stick your head honcho likely uses -increased productivity. Remember, the more time you can unlock, the more time you’ll have for your fave activities.
To develop effective time management ability, start with what inspires you. Don’t fret about everyday jobs or activities that increase productivity, but rather consider the things you like to do. Consider the things that drive you to try and earn more money so you’ve got more money to spend on them. Then make those things your concern, schedule them first, and schedule other things around them.
There are a few places on the web you can download a daily planner template or a free printable daily planner. Do not get too wrapped up in what tool to use. A legal pad or wall calendar is sufficient for the moment. The main thing is you get into the practice of planning your time and writing it down.
Let’s say the activity that brings you the most pleasure is camping. First, decide how many days this year you would like to spend camping. Then decide what times of year you would like to use those days. Now you have the amount of days and the season, have a look at the calendar and begin planning which days in particular you wish to spend camping. Block those days out on a calendar.
Now you need to appraise what you want to do to be ready to spend that time camping. If you are going to be gone for a week, what must you do before being in a position to be gone for that week? Think about the “must do” items only write them down, and then schedule the required time for those activities.
This could be a simplified example, but you will notice how much more incentivized you are to schedule other jobs when you first plan your fave activities. You are incentivized because there’s a reward of the Giant Benefit of time allocation. Happiness!
