Manage Your Time

I can’t stress time management enough. You only get so many hours in your day. You can’t stop the clock, you can’t add time to it, and you can’t do anything but just work with what you have to work with.

So, how do we manage our time? Actually, it’s so easy you’ll laugh.

 

The first thing you have to do is make a list of all the things you have to do in your day. It doesn’t matter if this list is five things or 55 things. You need to list each one and then, and this is the critical part, put down next to each item how long you expect that item to take in hours. After you do this, look at your whole list and add up the total hours.

 

If the total number of hours is something that can be managed in your day then great, get to work. Just take the first item on your list, put on the timer (yes, get a timer) and work on it until your timer goes off. If you’ve miscalculated, you’ll have to adjust for the next day.

 

If you find that the number of items and the time needed is more than you have time for in a day, then you will have to eliminate things. You do this in the reverse order of importance. To do this, you’ll have to rank each item from most important to least and leave out the least important things until your number of hours is manageable.