Want to utilize more hours of the day. But don’t know how to manage time, then surely these 20 tips for time management will help you that many people wish to know at their 20s.
Don’t say that you don’t have enough time for your work. You have exactly the same numbers of hours per day as Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Bill Gates (Microsoft), Jack Maa (Alibaba.com) and many more successful tycoon.
Time management is one of those skills that decides your worth whether you are a hard worker or smart worker. Many people realized it later after their 30s and 40s by saying “if I would have done this thing at that time, I would be someone else today”.
So, it time to take action on your indefinite plans and start implementing to fulfill your dreams before it’s too late.
Master in theses 20 time management tips will help you to figure out your success rate.
Tips for Time Management
1) Respect Your Time:
Your time worth is 1000$/hour, so act accordingly. Respect your time and make it respected.
2) Stop being Multitasking:
It merely kills your focus and produces a poor quality of work.
3). Make a work routine and stick to it, your body will adapt
Organize your work routine to enhance your productivity and self-confidence.
4). Set deadlines, don’t let task go indefinitely
We feel more focused and productive when the time is limited. So, set up deadlines for every work instead of going indefinitely.
5). Work when most productive
More working hour doesn’t mean more productivity, use constraints as opportunities.
6). Turn off email alert
In Huffington Post, “The average worker spends 6.3 hours a day checking their email”. Respond to mail only for three times; late morning, noon and before leaving office. It will save you from wasting time constantly switching between tasks.
7). Know the one thing you really need to get done during the day
Prioritize your work in the morning and choose the first most important task to get done for the day.
8). Break the big goal into small steps
Break the unreasonable down into little reasonable chunks. A big goal is only achieved when you start scoring small.
9). Doing is better than perfect
Stop searching for perfection and start doing the things, perfection will comes automatically.
10). Only plan for 4-5 hours of real work per day
Invest your 4-5 hour of the day in doing real work, instead of acting like a busy person. Be smart.
11). It’s normal to have days when you just can’t work and days when you work for 12 hours straight.
If sometimes you are not able to complete your task. Then, don’t worry, just tell yourself that it’s not your day and focus on tomorrow.
12). Practice self-control
Controlling yourself is just like controlling anything such as; stress control, time waste control through social media that play comparison games and make you feel down. So stop entertaining to check others photos, because time slip by unnoticed, and a 10-minute break becomes half an hour of wasted time. Learn to log out from all social media before beginning a project. It will save your time in long run.
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13). There is always time. Time is priority
Your efforts have potential to change your life anytime. So stop thinking more about your dream and start implementing it. Time gives value to people who value their time.
14). Wake early to gives more hours to your work
Most of the legends wake up early to utilize their most effective early hours to motivate themselves. So when you are starting?
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15). Remove distractions
Distraction can be through anything like negative people, situation, social media that distract your focus. It will not do anything but steal your energy that can be used for your achievements.
16). Turn the page on yesterday, only ever think about today and tomorrow
You can’t change what has happened yesterday, but, learning from yesterday failures can make your present and future.
17). Write down the things, to remind later
Most of the time it happened when you forget the most important work that should be done for the day. So, make a “to do list” or “set reminders” for best time management.
18) Focus on what matters
When you start focusing on things that matter, you start getting closer to what you want for yourself.
19) Stay on track
Whether failure or success, just stick to your plan. Sometimes we leave when we are just 3-feet away from the gold.
20) Take break sometimes
Break boost your creativity level, so try to disconnect sometime to come up with double power.
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Reference: Business Insider
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