2. Benefits of time management Reduce stress and frustrations
Improves performance and job satisfaction More time to enjoy life
Have control over your life through planning Get a sense of
achievement
3. 20% 80:20 Rule 80% Paretos Principle: 80% of results are
achieved with only 20% of the effort Focus your time and energy on
the high impact tasks to achieve the greatest benefit possible If
you have achieved your expected outcome and done what needs to be
done, then you may not need to do 80% of the task
4. Goal Setting To avoid the pitfalls of confusion and lack of
motivation, you have to clarify what you want to achieve SMART goal
setting guidelines : Specific - Have you clearly defined your goal?
Measurable - How do you know if you are making progress? Achievable
- Is your goal really achievable? Be ambitious but honest.
Rewarding - Is your goal something you are willing to make
sacrifices for? Timely - Is your goal achievable in a meaningful
timeframe? Write your goals down and be familiar with them
5. Planning Write down appointments, classes, and meetings on a
book or chart First thing in the morning, check what's ahead for
the day If you fail to plan, you plan to fail and you will waste a
lot of precious time while failing Action without planning is the
cause of every failure . Alex MacKenzie
6. Prioritized To-Do List Write down all the tasks you need to
complete Break large tasks into their component elements Allocate
priorities from A (very important, or very urgent) to E
(unimportant, or not at all urgent) You need to differentiate
between urgency and importance Rewrite the list in priority order
Take action immediately and finish them one by one This helps you
to focus on the important jobs first
7. Urgent versus Important Important activities have an outcome
that leads to the achievement of your goals Urgent activities
demand immediate attention, and are usually associated with the
achievement of someone elses goals, or with an uncomfortable
problem or situation that needs to be resolved
8. Prioritization The Pickle Jar theory: if you start by
putting stones into a pickle jar, then pebbles and then sand, you
will fit more into the pickle jar than if you do it the other way
round focus on the big, important tasks have plenty of time left
over to do other less important activities as well as the things
that you enjoy
9. Top Four Identify your top 4 tasks for the week and for each
day Physically write them out, to give them a tangible form Put
your top four tasks in priority order Complete the first one on the
list before starting anything else You need clear goals in your
life to decide the top 4, and motivation to complete the task
10. Procrastination ( What is procrastination? Putting off
things that we should be doing Avoid high priority, challenging
tasks Seek comfort in doing tasks you know you're capable of
completing
11. Overcome Procrastination Recognize that you are
procrastinating Work out why you are procrastinating Ways to
overcome: Find a small part of the task you can do right now
Identify the emotion associated with doing it Face your fears and
the risks head-on
12. Using your time Twice Doing two activities simultaneously
Productivity and efficiency are not being sacrificed For example:
Read or study while using public transportation Listen to the radio
while driving Use home exercise equipment in front of the TV
13. Learn to say NO Do not say yes when you don't have the
time, motivation, interest or skills to do the task Say no to tasks
that have little impact on your targets Prevent stress Avoid
overworking
14. Did you know
15. There are 6 billion people in the world
16. You are one of the 6 billion people in the world
17. In the entire universe we are all different neither of us
are the same, in other words we are all unique we like different
things
18. I can describe it in one word DIFFERENT BE YOUR OWN PERSON
UNIQUE INDIVIDUA L
19. How many times has anyone said that to you? I give up!
20. Think 'Outside of the Box' I cant understand why people are
frightened of new ideas. Im frightened of the old ones. -John Cage
If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you
always got. -Albert Einstein The best way to predict the future is
to invent it. -Alan Kay I have not failed. Ive just found 10,000
ways that wont work. -Thomas Edison If you can dream it, you can do
it. -Walt Disney