NAME : FARAH TRI MAHARANI
NPM : 13213229
CLASS: 4EA13
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Time Management Tips For Work-Life Balance
Here are some time management tips you can use to help you get
productive and stay balanced at work as well as outside the office.
Use whichever tips
resonate with you. There should be something here you can put into action straight away. You might also find it
useful to come back to these tips at a later date and see what else you can do
to boost your time management skills.
1. We often talk about not having enough time. Rather than focusing
on that, and complaining to yourself or others about not enough time, think
about what you do have enough time for. Start talking or thinking about that
instead.
2. Start within five
minutes of sitting down at your desk and switching on your computer. Half an hour or an hour
wasted here on procrastination or distractions is costly.
3. Value your time and
other people will do the same.
4. When things get
really pressurised and you’re tight for time, ignore email completely.
5. We’re all equal when
it comes to time.
6. Get into the habit of
switching off email whenever you can,
even if this is only for 15 minutes or 30 minutes at a time.
7. Use your time for the
things that are worth it.
8. If
you’re procrastinating, rather than getting frustrated or annoyed, simply ask
yourself why you are procrastinating. Are you scared of the task ahead? Is it too
difficult, too easy, or boring? Are you tired? We can waste a lot of energy and
time on the things we’re putting off. (Here's more advice on this in my piece on 10 productivity tips for
procrastinators.)
9. End your working day
at a fixed time. Don’t let work creep to fill your entire evening. You can also have two finishing times. One for an ideal day, and
one latest time that you won’t work past.
10. Sleep!
11. If you’re using social media for business, schedule some of your
updates. You
don’t have to be there all of the time.
12. Do a time audit for one
week and look at exactly where your time is going. Notice where you spend your time on a regular
week day. Notice how you use time at a weekend.
13. Taking the results
of your time audit, think about where you might want to redistribute a little
of your time. What could do with a little more time spent on it? What are you
spending time on that you don’t really enjoy or value? When are the main points
in the day you waste time?
14. What, to you,
constitutes time well spent? Write a list of five things.
15. Look at your list
(from point 14 above).
How often have you done these things in a) the past
month? b) the past year?
16. Who drains your
time?
17. What drains your
time? What drains your energy?
18. Limit the things that drain your time and
energy. Then, with the time you do have you’ll get more done in a
focused, energised way. For more productivity advice, read my piece on 30
one-minute productivity tips.
19. You can actually get an
awful lot done in half an hour. Don’t just float
because you’ve only got half an hour until your next meeting or appointment.
20. We all need down
time.
21. Take mini breaks
when you need them during the day to recharge and refocus.
22. Take lengthy breaks
away from work at the weekend, in the evening and on holiday to help you stay
productive long term.
23. Identify anything
causing a regular, repeated drag or drain on your time. These might include
technology, systems, workflow or people, for example. One by one, take these
things and fix them, address them, or change them to free up more time.
24. If you’re doing a task where you’re likely to get distracted and
spend longer than you want to there (for example, on social media, email, or
internet searching), take off your watch and put it on the desk, noting what
time you started and how long you intend to spend there. Check back in
regularly on time passing.
25. We regularly
underestimate how long something will take us. Factor this in!
26. Do you like the pressure
of working to tight deadlines or not? For example, do you only feel motivated to
get started on a project the night before it’s due in, or do you prefer to
leave yourself plenty of time? Either way is fine, but know which method works for you and use
it to your advantage. Either set yourself more deadlines, or make sure you
leave time to plan and deliver well in advance.
27. Check in with the
cycles of nature now and again. See how you are feeling in relation to sunrise
and sunset, or to the changing of the seasons. We often get caught up in our
own perception of time, but there is a bigger natural cycle going on too.
28. Are you trying to
force things to happen in a certain time frame? Could you let it go and let
things happen in their own time instead?
29. Could you spend time
as an alternative to spending money at some point this week?
30. Anything that marks the end of one year or the start of a
new year is a good time to look back at how you’ve spent your time in the year
just gone.
Looking at this, how do you want to spend your time in the year ahead? Will you
spend it in the same way, or make some changes?
Source : https://www.forbes.com/sites/francesbooth/2014/08/28/30-time-management-tips/#57c5155275e5
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