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Time
management is about focusing on results, not on being busy. Many people spend their days in a flurry of
activity, but achieve very little because they are not concentrating
on the right things.
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The
secret to time management is
The 80::20 Rule— 80% of the impact comes from 20% of the effort, IF you focus on the right things to get the results you want.
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Time Management Tools include:
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Personal Goal Setting—Deciding
your personal priorities
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Costing Your Time—Determining
how much your time is worth
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Deciding Work Priorities—Concentrating
on the right things
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Activity Logs—Learning
how you really spend your time
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Action Plans—Planning
to solve a problem or complete a task
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Prioritized To Do Lists—Tackling
the right tasks first
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Effective Scheduling—Planning
to use your time best
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Life
is full of surprises, so we need to manage our time with that in mind. To maximize planned and scheduled work time,
we also need to build in time for fire-fighting, plan for
inevitable interruptions, and even schedule time to recharge. This
may sound counter- intuitive, but remember the 80::20
Rule!.
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Certain
behaviors can really get in your way. Do you love a crisis? Are you a procrastinator? Do they call you Chatty-Cathy? Can you never say no? In the end, time management is all about YOU. The key to time management is knowing ourselves, as we
can't actually "manage" time; but we can manage our own
behavior.
