Take Control of Your Time
Erica Kesse
15 Time Management Tips
Time management is the process of planning and executing conscious control of time spent on
specific activities, especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity. It involves a
juggling act of various demands upon a person relating to physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and
professional. Have you completed your Thrive Plan.The coping skills are activities that should be
15 Time Management Reminders
- Create an environment by enlisting others to know and hold you accountable for important tasks to do
- Set priorities under all categories of your life to gain balance
- Create an environment by blocking time for planning in at least for 20 minutes at the top of the week
- Isolate time into 20 minute increments of focused time to do one task
- Create a task list of no more than 5 things to do daily and give them a time on your calendar
- Be sure to do at least 1 important/ non-urgent item that will move you toward your vision weekly
- Schedule 30 minutes for anxiety and isolate it to that day/ time
- Schedule joy or an item that you do just for you
- Set specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, timely goals and place it on your calendar in increments until the deadline
- Delegate the things you do not want to do
- Honor your time by being on time, ending on time, and oly doing things when the blocks of time that you have set
- Develop consistent routines and automations
- Allow time for the urgent and unexpected
- Consider the energy that you have before committing
- Be gentle with yourself as life is a journey, perfect for an endurance run not a sprint.
As you can see, this article is short and sweet. Implementing as many of these reminders will make a huge difference in your life, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
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