The document discusses strategies for effective time management. It identifies key benefits like being efficient and successful. Common obstacles include unclear objectives, disorganization, inability to say no, and interruptions. The document recommends setting specific and measurable goals, prioritizing tasks by importance and urgency, organizing your work, learning to say no, using waiting time productively, focusing on one task at a time, identifying your most productive time of day, and celebrating successes.

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Benefits of time management
• Efficient
• Successful
• Healthy

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Obstacles to effective time
management
Unclear objectives
Disorganization
Inability to say “no”

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Obstacles to effective time
management
Interruptions
More interruptions
Periods of inactivity

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Obstacles to effective time
management
Too many things at once
Stress and fatigue
All work and no play

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What can we do?
Recognize that obstacles exist
Identify them
Employ strategies to overcome

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Set goals
• Specific
• Measurable

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Prioritize
• Do
• Delegate
• Delay
• Delete

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Prioritize
1. Address the urgent
2. Accomplish what you can early
3. Attach deadlines to things you delay

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Organize

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Learn when to say “NO”
• You can’t do
everything
• Don’t undertake things
you can’t complete
• Remain consistent to
your goals

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Use your waiting time
• On public transportation
• At the doctor’s office
• Waiting for your plane
• On hold
• When you are early

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Use your waiting time
Correspondence
Letters or memos
Books or tapes

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Concentrate on the task at hand
• Focus on your goal
• Tune out interruptions

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Consider your personal prime time
• Morning?
• Evening?
• Late night?

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Celebrate your success

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Review
• Set goals
• Prioritize
• Organize
• Learn when to say “NO”
• Use your waiting time
• Concentrate on the task at hand
• Consider your personal prime time
• Celebrate success

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