Top 10 Time Managing Tips

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What’s given is 24 hours. What’s not is how we choose to manage it to the best of our abilities.

Here are my Top 10 Time Managing Tips (little tongue twister there):

1. Recognize the Difference Between What’s Important vs What’s Urgent. Time wasters are tasks which are not urgent and not important. What we tend to do most of the time are stuff which are urgent and may not be important (e.g. answering every phone call). What you tend to neglect but will hurt you then in the long run are things that are important but are not urgent (e.g. exercise). The stuff that tend to stress you out in the adrenalin are those which are important and urgent. Thinking of tasks along these 4 quadrants allows you to see with a bigger picture where your time is going to, and whether it should be spent at another quadrant.
2. Manage Chaos by Prioritizing Tasks. While people all around you are going bonkers at the thousand and one things they have to do, the cool-headed you learns to prioritize and then clear, one by one.
3. Learn to Say No. This doesn’t mean you’re all stuck up, it just means you recognize the fact that as much as you’d like to give it all, the reality is your resources are limited, and you’d want to prioritize them on matters which you can contribute best. Pick and choose wisely, that’s how I’d like to think about it.
4. Invest Time in Building Your Personal Skills. The relationships and networks you’d build, plus the support base that comes with it, will help you with the efficiency of your endeavors in the long run.
5. Have a “Do-Clear” Mentality. Be focused on what you have to get done, and feel the sense of joy at clearing each work.
6. Break Up Big Stuff Into Little Bits. Thinking of big tasks in terms of modular components helps reduce the complexities and hence time in problem solving.
7. Get an Organizer, and Use It. Once upon a time I never believed in such stuff. Trust me, it helps.
8. Take Public Transport. This is the time to catch up on those magazines, books, newspapers.
9. Watch How The Pros Do It, and Follow. Since it is on the topic of managing time and not so much of the process of discovery, learning from best practices beforehand will save you some time as supposed to jumping into murky waters.
10. Nike. Don’t just think and think and think. Old school advice coming your way… Just Do It.

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