8 Tips For Better Time Management

Are you finding yourself too busy now-a-days? This busy schedule often causes anxiety. Several people are suffering from diseases due to work related pressure and stress. Improper time management is responsible for stress in work place.  

Stress can often be caused by not having enough time to do the things you want or need to do. This is a common problem shared by many employees and employers alike in the workplace as well as students at school, colleges and universities. By managing your time, stresses can be reduced significantly.

Here are 8 useful tips on better time management

1. Do you make statements like "I’ll come over in a minute", "Just give me a couple of minutes to get dressed and finish breakfast". You must be aware by now that all the above statements are probably false because you can not dressed and finish breakfast in two minutes.

2. The key to good time management is self-organization and planning. You should plan your job at the start of every day and you should assign proper priority to all your activity.

3. Set time limits of all tasks. You should assign 30 minutes in morning and 30 minutes in afternoon for reading the mails.

4. You should make your schedule based on the priority of the task. This is most important for better time management.

5. Identify all nonproductive hours in your office and remove them from your schedule. Remove all non productive time wasting activities. One way to do this is by simply maintenance a track of every activity you do and how much time you spend. Soon you will realize that real time wasters like surfing the net or making personal calls actually impact your time.

6. You should be your critic. You should review your efficiency on the various tasks day to day. You should challenge yourself to improve the quality of your work with less time. A minor change in your archiving of data in your computer can save an average 40 minutes per day. You can get your secretary to help you do this.

7. Try to identify your idle time. If you are traveling to and from work by public transport, there is plenty of opportunity to complete a task, especially in today’s mobile computing age.

8. Your plan should be realistic. You need to acknowledge that there is only 24 hours in a day. Don’t make an unachievable target which will increase your stress level.

You can refer to productivity improvement guidelines to improve your time management skills.