Life Designer E - Mag Mar. 2015 | Page 5

Life Designer, March 2015 Personal Grooming TIME MANAGEMENT 4 amount of time, and will have enthusiasm to do the things that you enjoy doing. It is a great tool to use to eliminate stress and chaos. When you are stressed, you tend to be irritable, muddled and do not know which way to head. A little Planning goes a long way in making your personality both at work place and at home shine. ime anagement involves the Past and the Present in order to predict the Future. Actions of the past that are stored in your memory give you the required approximation about How to do something and the estimate of the time required to complete the task and so forth. The Present gives you actual circumstances to work within your limitations and your opportunities. An idea that did not work for you yesterday, may suddenly be very easy to execute today because times have changed. When you combine the two, it provides you with an ability to PLAN the Future to your advantage. Time Management is all about PLANNING. Time management makes you more productive in every way, because you proceed to do things in an orderly fashion. When you make this a habit, you will get much more done in a comparatively lesser One of the greatest tools to be used for effective Time Management is making To Do Lists. It is imperative that you jot down every little action or errand on a list. If you follow an order according to priority, you will soon be very efficient. Given below are some headings which will help you to make such a list. 1.Time frame from waking in the morning to leaving for the work place. 2.Time frame for homemakers from waking in the morning to seeing family go to office/school etc. 3.Most important tasks to be done on reaching the work place. These include attending to your daily correspondence, looking over a file for that afternoon meeting, bringing up a point with the Boss etc. according to your plan, there will be no urgency nor waste of time, e.g., pay your electricity bill as soon as you can instead of waiting for the due date. The line to pay is shorter and your time is not wasted. b.) Self presence or Delegation. When you read a particularly long li