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How To Manage Time Wisely

August 23rd, 2008

It’s a shame to have the intelligence and skills to make it big, only to get hampered by unwanted procrastination. You don’t have to be a victim of this type of situation your whole life. Act now!
Here are some of the things I do to manage time better. Hope you learn from them.

I keep my inbox organized.

When I get an incoming message at my inbox, I file it to a folder right away. This saves me all the hassle of looking for the message that I need. And this allows me to store an unread message for later, and find it easily when I need it. And I get to move on to the more important thing I’m doing.

I cut down on my multitasking habit.

Multitasking is good. You can even call it a skill. But still, you should not overdo it. Too much multitasking can lead to decreased efficiency. Sometimes, a working time management comes from having the capacity to focus on one important thing and keeping all your efforts geared towards it.

I take charge of the top-priority tasks first.

Before I even consider doing anything at all, I make sure that I have my top-priority task all done already. I would usually dedicate the first hour of the day working on it. Then I would move on to other less important tasks.

I stick to my schedule.

I set a schedule for reading emails. I avoid reading them as they come, and answering to each and every one of them as if it was my obligation to do so. Unless the email is important and work related, I keep my responses on schedule. After all, people want predictable responses, not necessarily immediate ones.

And I avoid searching through too many sites. I keep my wanderings on schedule as they tend to eat up my valuable time.

I always keep track of time.

And what better way to manage time than to keep track of it? And keep track I do. Anybody should know it; by the way I have all sorts of collectible mantel clocks and unique wall clocks at home. You’d actually think I have a whole collection of them. But why, I even have world time clocks for my overseas travel.

Okay, so here’s the confession. Everything mentioned here are on my wish list. I’m still struggling against procrastination. Well, at least I’m working on it.

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