There are loads of time management methods. And as I am no business consultant, I'll be looking at these from the angle of someone whose days are already too filled with other things in life. Not to create more time for business meetings, but to find time for your personal goals and dreams in the midst of keeping a home, trying to squeeze in time for friends, driving people around to hobbies - and maybe having hobbies of your own. Maybe even having a day job.
This is not to say you can't use these methods in your 9-5 job - when you manage to find a more organised way to live, you'll most likely want to use the methods at work too. And of course if you work from home, and make your own time planning, these time management methods will work for you. After all - your dream may have been to work from home, and now you need to organise your days to stay in your dream job.
We'll be looking at facts about time management, what is bad time management, and what kind of time tweaking is effective - from the perspective of an ordinary person. I'll be giving time management tips I have found useful. |
I hope these will help you plan your life in a way that makes it possible for you to find time for your dreams and personal goals.
I'm writing this in the beginning of January, and on my desk is a Christmas gift from my niece.
Now I am one of those persons who tend to bite their nails when busy, really concentrating on something (I know, a bad habit...) Also I'm at the keyboard a lot, and long nails just feel icky when typing. So I most certainly don't have long manicured nails and when my niece sent nail files as a Christmas present, I wondered what to do with them. Then I saw what was written on them and had to take the picture below.
Follow that advice!
To be able to manage your time well, you need to know what is
Yes, I know - you probably know all too well you haven't been good at time management and don't feel exactly enthusiastic to read all the things you probably have done wrong.
But have a peek anyway. This might be a good start to analysing your situation and begin to plan the steps to reach your future goals.
CLICK HERE - there are probably more signs of bad time management than you thought at first.
As I build this website, I will add all the different methods here I feel can be used by a private person with a chaotic schedule (or no schedule at all because there isn't time to create one).
Eisenhower MatrixThe four quadrants of the Eisenhower Matrix teach you to plan your tasks in a more methodical way by comparing how important and urgent tasks are. You might be surprised urgent things aren't always important... |