Manage Time To Manage Stress
Posted by Depressed - 05/12/09 at 05:12 amEffective time management can help you lead a more healthy life and render you more productive, with satisfactory work and relaxation time. Or, poor time management can not only lead to poor productivity but also unjustified amounts of stress.
Activity records are one of the most vital tools in resource management. They help you utilise your time better, so that you can reduce time consumption on certain activities and eliminate time-wasting ones. In this fashion, you get additional time for work and your total efficiency increases.
Keeping a record of various activities will help you know the areas where you waste your time. You may just be whiling away reading the web, traveling, reading mails, chatting and the like.
Record your activities for a few weeks and you would then come to understand about the time wasted in the daily running order. You can reduce this by changing unpleasant habits. Sort thru your mails and divide it into categories including “read now” and “read later”. You will also notice that much of what you believe you must read later was not crucial anyway. Furthermore, read your mail at the same time every day.
If you have several tasks to do within a stipulated period of time, create a checklist as you work on every one of them. Also, determine whether some of the tasks can be delegated to somebody else who is not as overloaded with work as you and may help you with it.
Alternatively, negotiate with the people you are dealing with to see it they are prepared to offer you more time. As you consider your time function and your ability to deliver tasks, don’t forget to leave emergency time for surprising activities and for suitable teamwork.
You need to learn to distinguish between where you are required to spend time and where you want to spend time and also whether you are needed to do the task at the moment or whether the task needs to be done in the slightest. An efficient time chief should be able to answer these questions quickly to ensure that time isn’t further wasted.
It will take a little time before you master the art of resource management. Keep on asking yourself questions like, ‘Do I really need to do this now?’
Have a place for everything and put everything in its place. This will help you locate things more easily when you are looking for them. It will help you stay stress free.Such simple measures can help you save more minutes a day and even hours that may help you perform your task with more productivity.
