<![CDATA[Cindy A. Lewis - Time Management and Planning]]>Mon, 03 Feb 2025 13:09:39 -0600Weebly<![CDATA[Five Time Management Keys]]>Sat, 12 May 2018 02:56:57 GMThttps://www.cindyalewis.com/time-management-and-planning/five-time-management-keysClearly, in this day and time we all have commitments like crazy.  I know I do but I also want some time for "me."  There is nothing wrong with that either, let me just free you up a little.  There can be a breaking point if we never take time for ourselves.

That being said I want to give you a few time management keys to help you in your everyday life.
  1. Plan and exercise conscious control over your time spent on activities. This will help you increase your effectiveness, your efficiency, and your productivity.
  2. Set goals. To maximize your productivity, set goals.  Write them down and check them off as they are accomplished.
  3. Relate processes together.  In other words, combine your steps.  By putting tasks together you can reduce your time spent.  >>IDEA:  Let's say you are cleaning your room and you find something that needs to go into the kitchen, something for the coat closet, dirty clothes for the laundry room.  Make piles and then deliver all your items at the same time rather than going back and forth and back and forth.
  4. Eliminate non-priorities.  Categorize your priorities according to their value.Urgent and Important, Important no urgent, Unimportant. Then you can determine which priorities to focus your time.
  5. Try the 80-20 Rule. It is said the 80% of task can be done in 20% of time.  If so the other 20% that are harder can take 80% of the time.  Easy tasks can get done quickly and check them off your list.  Plus you feel accomplished and then you can concentrate on the harder tasks.
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