Effective Time-management

“He who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy day. The orderly arrangement of his time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all his occupations…”

It’s essential to balance one’s life roles holistically. Every person plays many roles in life. The most important are: family, personal relationships, spiritual, social, career, financial, education and physical. Compromise to one of these will eventually compromise the others.

Since we often experience times as fleeting, frenetic and pressured, it’s imperative to manage the time we have effectively in our rapidly changing world. The greatest single time-management tool is to set clearly defined goals. This gives focus and direction to planning and facilitates the establishment of priorities. Effective time-management will allow you to feel positive and achieve a state of balance and harmony in mind, body and soul.

Using time to your best advantage is a skill that can be developed. The key is to start taking control. This will allow you to start taking control. This will allow you to start planning your life, instead of letting events determine it. Decide what needs to be done and begin the process by focusing on the tasks that have to be tackled. Organizing and prioritizing your daily activities is critically important if you want to achieve your goal.

The first step for effective time-management is to be aware of how you presently use your time, by keeping a record of how you spend each hour of the day is extremely useful. This will help you gain insight into your current patterns of time-management. This also means including time for yourself. You may want to attend a gym, visit a friend, see a movie or visit the library. After a week or two you can look back and see if you’ve kept to your schedule, or whether you have allowed other things to intrude.

Although one of the biggest obstacles to effective time-management is procrastination, whenever you are tempted to put something off, be totally committed to acting on it immediately.

-Prince Safari-