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| MANAGE YOUR TIME & REJOICE |
What you accomplish during a 24-hour period depends on your own motivation, your energy, your skills and abilities, and other resources.
Since there are always demands on your time, it may be helpful to think about what you will do with your time and to consider some strategies for more effective time management.
Time management is not a way to make you work harder and longer, but a means to help you work smarter to accomplish your work more easily and rapidly.
There are a lot of things that make it difficult for us to manage our time effectively. Let’s consider some of the most common ones, and see if they apply to us:
•Unclear objectives
Disorganization
Inability to say 'NO'
Inturruptions
Periods of inactivity
Too many things at a time
Stress and fatigue
All work and no play
Effective goals share a number of characteristics in common. Effective goals are:
•Specific
•Measurable
•Realistic
•Time-based
It is important when you have prioritized your tasks that you:
•Address the urgent
•Accomplish what you can early
•Attach deadlines to things you delay
Another personal time management skill is to make good use of your “waiting time.”
Have you ever thought about how much time you spend doing nothing during an average day? Usually this is not a situation where you planned to do nothing…it just happened. Think about all of the things you could accomplish if you could make use of this time. For instance
Time you spend commuting on a train or bus
Time you wait at the doctor or dentist office for your appointment.
Time you spend to wait for bus, train or plane.
Time you spend "on hold" on the phone.
Time you spend when you arrive at work or at a meeting earlier than you had anticipated
The trick to making use of your waiting time is to always make sure you have something with you that you can accomplish in the event that you are kept waiting. For instance:
•Reading correspondence
•Writing letters or memos
Reading or answering the messages and phonecalls
You will be juggling many tasks while you serve as a Lions leader. There is no way around this fact. But one important strategy to keep in mind is to concentrate completely on the current task. Concentration can be difficult when you have a lot on your mind. Your time will be better spent if you are able to:
•Focus on your goal
•Tune out interruptions
Are you one of those people who gets up before the sun rises and starts working? Is the early evening, after the evening meal, your time to work? Or are you someone who prefers to wait until the quiet of the late night hours to do the really hard tasks?
Everyone is different. Most research shows that tasks that take the most mental concentration are most effectively accomplished early in the day, but even these studies acknowledge that this is not always true, and that everyone has a “personal prime time.”
When you plan your tasks, think about your own “prime time.” If you do your best work early, plan to do the routine tasks later in the day and concentrate on the more challenging tasks when you are at your best. If you don’t really get going until later, handle the routines in the morning and save the more difficult tasks for later.
Celebrate the achievement of your goals to maintain a healthy balance in life between work and play. Reward yourself when you complete a task or finish a project.
If you worked in a team setting, or delegated some tasks to others, reward the efforts of all involved.
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Celebration is a vital part of all project management. No matter how tight your schedule looks, this is TIME WELL SPENT!
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