This document discusses time management. It notes that time management involves techniques for managing personal time effectively. On average, people spend years on various daily activities like sleeping, eating, commuting, and doing chores, but also waste about 2 hours per day. Proper time management requires understanding one's values, goals, and priorities in order to avoid wasting time and improve productivity. The document provides tips for time management like using a planner, assigning time frames to tasks, keeping a calendar, and conducting a time audit.
2. WHAT IS TIME MANAGEMENT ?
Time management is
techniques and
strategies for managing
your personal time.
3. WHAT DO WE DO WITH OUR LIVES
Average Spending :
27 years sleeping
3.3 years eating
5 months waiting at traffic lights
8 months opening unwanted mail
1 year looking for misplaced objects
2 years attempting to return phone calls
4 years doing housework
2 years waiting in lines
13.8 years working
4. PROBLEMS
By some estimates, people waste about 2 hours per day.
Signs of time wasting:
Can’t find things
Miss appointments, need to reschedule them late
and/or unprepared for meetings
Volunteer to do things other people should do
Tired/unable to concentrate
5. FACTORS THAT AFFECT HOW WE USE OUR TIME?
What our values are?
What our goals are?
What our priorities are?
What our actions are?
how we use our time?
6. WHAT ARE YOUR VALUES
Friends??
Family??
Career??
7. WHAT ARE YOUR GOALS
Goal setting system is out line
what you want to achieve in
life.
Set sort term as well as long
term goal.
8. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIORITIES??
Success of career
Family
Money
Friends
Fun time
10. HOW DO WE AVOID OUR HIGH PRIORITY
TASKS???
Convince ourselves we deserve a break today
Socializing, visiting, e-mailing and telephoning
Reading the unimportant stuff, magazines, etc
Solving other people’s problems
Overdoing it. Taking a break to watch TV and watching it for 4 hours
Running away. Shopping, coffee with friends.
Daydreaming about . . . the weekend, vacation, etc
What’s your favorite escape???
11. HOW TO IMPROVE TIME MANAGEMENT
Keep a planner
Assign time frames to each work
Keep a calendar
Use reminders – notes
Use technology
Know your energy levels
12. TIME AUDIT
How we really spend your time
vs. timesheet.?
What does your time log tell you?
13. DON’T FORGET
Time is as valuable as money
don’t waste it.
Managing your time makes you
successful.