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Today we have some great time management tips from the Academic Skills Centre of Dartmouth College
Time Management Tips
1.Count all your time as time to be
used and make every attempt to get satisfaction out of every moment.
2.Find
something to enjoy in whatever you do.
3.Try to be an optimist and seek out the good in your life.
3.Try to be an optimist and seek out the good in your life.
4.Find
ways to build on your successes.
5.Stop
regretting your failures and start learning from your mistakes.
6.Remind
yourself, "There is always enough time for the important things." If
it is important, you should be able to make
time to do it.
7.Continually
look at ways of freeing up your time.
8.Examine
your old habits and search for ways to change or eliminate them.
9.Try
to use waiting time-review notes or do practice problems.
10.Keep
paper or a calendar with you to jot down the things you have to do or notes to
yourself.
11.Examine
and revise your lifetime goals on a monthly basis and be sure to include
progress towards those goals on a
daily basis.
12.Put
up reminders in your home or office about your goals.
13.Always
keep those long term goals in mind.
14.Plan
your day each morning or the night before and set priorities for yourself.
15.Maintain
and develop a list of specific things to be done each day, set your priorities
and the get the most important
ones done as soon in the day as you can. Evaluate your progress at the
end of the day briefly.
16.Look
ahead in your month and try and anticipate what is going to happen so you can
better schedule your time.
17.Try
rewarding yourself when you get things done as you had planned, especially the
important ones.
18.Do
first things first.
19.Have
confidence in yourself and in your judgement of priorities and stick to them no
matter what.
20.When
you catch yourself procrastinating-ask yourself, "What am I
avoiding?"
21.Start
with the most difficult parts of projects, then either the worst is done or you
may find you don't have to do all the
other small tasks.
22.Catch
yourself when you are involved in unproductive projects and stop as soon as you
can.
23.Find
time to concentrate on high priority items or activities.
24.Concentrate
on one thing at a time.
25.Put
your efforts in areas that provide long term benefits.
26.Push
yourself and be persistent, especially when you know you are doing well.
27.Think
on paper when possible-it makes it easier to review and revise.
28.Be
sure and set deadlines for yourself whenever possible.
29.Delegate
responsibilities whenever possible.
30.Ask
for advice when needed.
ÓAcademic
Skills Center, Dartmouth College 2001
Wendy Mason is a career coach working mainly with professional women who want to make that jump to senior level while maintaining a good work/life balance. Before working as a coach, Wendy had a long career in both the public and private sectors in general management and consultancy as well as spells in HR. She now divides her time between face to face coaching, and coaching and blogging on-line. You can contact Wendy at wendymason@wisewolfcoaching.com and find out more at http://wisewolfcoaching.com
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