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Time Management: Good Time Management Is Essential For Coping With The Pressures of Modern Life Without Too Much Stress

Good time management is essential to feeling in control and less stressed. The document provides tips for better time management including setting goals, making a to-do list, prioritizing important tasks, taking breaks, and practicing the 4 Ds of email management. The key is focusing on important tasks and results rather than how busy you are.

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Time Management: Good Time Management Is Essential For Coping With The Pressures of Modern Life Without Too Much Stress

Good time management is essential to feeling in control and less stressed. The document provides tips for better time management including setting goals, making a to-do list, prioritizing important tasks, taking breaks, and practicing the 4 Ds of email management. The key is focusing on important tasks and results rather than how busy you are.

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time management

Good time management is essential for coping with the


pressures of modern life without too much stress.
If you never have enough time to finish your tasks,
better time management will help you regain
control of your day.
Here are her top tips for better time management:
Good time management doesn’t mean you do Work out your goals
more work. It means you focus on the tasks that This first step towards improving your time management is to ask yourself some questions.
matter and will make a difference. Whether it’s in Work out who you want to be, your priorities in life, and what you want to achieve in your
your job or your lifestyle as a whole, learning how career or personal life. That is then the guiding principle for how you spend your time and how
to manage your time effectively will help you feel you manage it.
more relaxed, focused and in control.
Once you have worked out the big picture, even if it’s quite general, you can then work out
some short-term and medium-term goals. Knowing your goals will help you plan better and
The aim of good time focus on the things that will help you achieve those goals.
management is to achieve the
lifestyle balance you want,
Make a list
A common time management mistake is trying to remember too many details, leading to
Emma Donaldson-Feilder, information overload. A better way to stay organised and take control of your projects and tasks
a chartered occupational is to use a to-do list to write things down.
psychologist.
Try it and see what works best for you says
Donaldson-Feilder. She prefers to keep a single Keeping a list will help you work
to-do list, to avoid losing track of multiple out your priorities and timings,
lists. so it can help you put off the
non-urgent tasks.
time management
Work smarter, not harder
Good time management at work means doing
high-quality work, not high quantity. Donaldson-
Feilder advises concentrating not on how busy
you are but on results. Spending more time on
something doesn’t necessarily achieve more. Prioritise important tasks
Staying an extra hour at work at the end of Tasks can be grouped in four categories:
the day may not be the most effective way to
manage your time. Urgent and important Urgent but not important
Not urgent but important & Neither urgent nor important
You may feel resentful about being in the office
after hours. You’re also likely to be less productive People with good time management create time to concentrate on non-urgent, important activities.
and frustrated about how little you’re achieving, By so doing, they minimise the chances of activities ever becoming urgent and important.
which will compound your stress.
The aim is to learn how to better reduce the number of urgent and important tasks. Having to deal
with too many urgent tasks can be stressful.
Have a lunch break
Many people work through their lunch break
to gain an extra hour at work, but that can be Practise the 4 Ds
counter-productive. As a general rule, taking at We can spend up to half our working day going through our email inbox, making us tired, frustrated
least 30 minutes away from your desk will help and unproductive. A study has found that one in three office workers suffer from e-mail stress.
you to be more effective in the afternoon.
Making a decision the first time you open an email is crucial for effective time management.
A break is an opportunity to relax and think
of something other than work. Go for a walk
outdoors or, better still, do some exercise. You’ll To manage this burden effectively, Donaldson-Feilder advises practising the 4 Ds of decision-making.
come back to your desk re-energised, with a DELETE: half of the emails you get can DELEGATE: if the email can be better
new set of eyes and renewed focus. probably be deleted immediately. dealt with by someone else.

Planning your day with a midday break will DO: if the email is urgent or can be DEFER: set aside time at a later date
also help you to break up your work into more completed quickly to spend on emails that require longer
manageable chunks. action.

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