Time Management Skills you need

Time Management Skills you need

I know at some point of your childhood, if you are like me who had brothers and sisters, all younger than me, you would love and hate your parents at the same time, smile in a second and in a few minutes later you are busy, tired and unhappy because of multitasks that parents would delegate.

I always was wondering whether I would become good at work, as always my mother would congratulate me on a completed task, then tell me how I could have made it better, and was critique to almost everything especially when it came about time management of my tasks.

The more I improved in speed, the more tasks I was assigned to, wondering why, I remember her touching my shoulder and said “My son, the world is on a race, whoever is successful works smarter and faster than many, the successful people have the same amount of hours a day like us, the difference is they use their time effectively, and that’s what I can train you now, the faster and smarter you get, the better you become”

I had no internet, no mobile phone at the time, so I could have done better in my activities if the time was now.

Here is a summary of time management tips from my mother, and from personal development experts like Bob Proctor and John Assaraf

Understand your best hours

I have heard that most of activities you perform better are the ones you do before meeting people, irrespective of who they are. It makes sense to me that when I want to perform better I have to do my most important tasks before I meet people, which mean most of my important tasks should be done early in the morning or late at night If I am not super exhausted during my day.

Everyone has a morning and a late evening, so we can do it if it’s the best time for us. Try to keep in mind that, you will perform better when your brain is fresh, you won’t perform better in the morning if you only had one hour sleep the night before.

 

Make a list

Make a list of all activities you want to do in a day, week, and month. Do not do any task because it just came in your heard; know that what has come in your heard now might be a result of temporary feelings. So to be able to set great list of your important tasks you want to accomplish is when you are not in any pressure.

For example, my mentor Colm McGill uses Sunday to plan the week, day after day and hour after hour of the next week, this gives you time to read through the goals and see the set of activities you set will fit in. It also gives you a nice time to know what kinds of activities are important, and prioritize them

Set Deadlines

Guys we have set a list, and then we need a deadline of each activity because writing that you have ten activities on your list is not enough, as your first activity can take a day and ruin a chance of other activities. So set a deadline for each activity, if you fail to finish it in a set time, should not interfere the time for other activities

Setting a deadline will set a discipline on how you work on your list of activities, so don’t ignore.

 

Stop Multitasking

While my mother used multitasking technique to train me on speed and performance, it’s clear now that when you want to concentrate on one activity, try not to multitask, as it may result into distraction which normally is a reason for failure to accomplish many tasks you plan.

For example, this morning I had a plan of writing this article, so I had no chance to allow any kind of distraction in my mind, did not even log in in any of my accounts, as I know if I do; it will be multitasking, and will distract me.

For important tasks you need to accomplish, make sure there is no distraction, for lesser important tasks you can do later when the day is closing and your body needs more relaxation.

Delegate Responsibility

Do what you can do best, delegate the rest to others. I see this is one of the most important tips, if we need to succeed in what we do, let’s do what we can do best, those we cannot do best, and there must be someone that can do those better find and delegate.

For example, If you are working like a team, it’s very important to choose what best can you do for the team. If it’s individual, do what’s important and what you can do best, spend less time in what you can’t do properly, unless if you are trying to train to be better.

It’s no harm if you outsource to someone to do what you are less productive and concentrate on what you are productive and best at.

Reward Yourself

Take time after a big day to reward you guys. You are the only one who knows yourself better, and you are the biggest inspiration to yourself guys.

If you had attained all goals of the day, you are possibly looking forward for tomorrow’s goals, but take time to relax, review, talk to yourself, think where you can improve, see where you were outstanding and how you can redo tomorrow.

Never tlak yourself down, talk to you politely, your ears and brain will listen and your body will respond.

 

Guys now this is it for today from Dimmy. Let’s meet in the next post