3 Quick Tips For Time Management!
Sometimes just a few quick tips are all you need to get in control of your time.
That’s why we gathered our top three tips for time management, that you can implement today.
If you want a complete plan instead, the Pomodoro Technique will give you everything you need!
1 – Notifications
Turn all of your notifications off. And do it right now!
Whether it’s email, Twitter, WhatsApp, or texts, all your notifications need to be turned off permanently if you can.
If you can’t bring yourself to do that, then reduce them as much as possible.
Each time one goes off, it distracts you and slows you down.
So limit it as much as possible, think about only picking up your phone every hour or so.
Notifications are a great example of the urgency effect, because they pop up instantly: they seem important.
But staying focused on the task at hand and seeing things through to completion is much more valuable!
Remember, nobody is going to lose sleep over you responding to an email an hour later!
2 – Reflect And Experiment
Everyone works differently and everyone has different demands on them.
We teach lots of great techniques in our London-based time management training, but implementing them needs to be personal.
The best way to do this is to commit to a brief period of reflection every week.
Put aside 15 minutes to think about the previous week.
What went well and what poorly? Then look at the week coming up.
If things are going well, then recommit to your system and keep going. If things went badly, think about a way that you could adjust things to try to improve.
A great way to start is with a full time audit, so you can really see where all your time is going.
3 – Improve Your Confidence
Time management, confidence and procrastination are very closely linked.
Many people think that good time management is actually driven by good self-esteem and confidence, and that poor time management is a symptom of low self-esteem.
If you are confident, you believe that good things will happen, and your ability to make them happy.
But if you aren’t, you’re more likely to procrastinate and leave things late.
So one fix for your time management that is well worth trying is building your confidence and self-esteem.
Even if it doesn’t help with your time management, you’ll feel better!
If you struggle a lot to gauge whether or not you are good at your job, try placing more weight into the positive feedback you get.
Supervisors are not in the business of lying to make you feel better. If they say you are valuable, then you are!
