Are You Effectively Managing Your Schedule?
A recent American Psychological Survey found that 48% of Americans feel more stressed than they were 5 years ago. With all the work and family obligations of modern living, it’s not hard to see why. Our lives are filled with to-do lists and time demands.
What’s the easiest way to combat these high stress levels?
Schedule management!
It might sound like an easy answer that is too good to be true, but finding a way to manage the multiple demands placed on your time every day is one of the secrets to success.
Taking control of your schedule requires a few easy steps:
- Set aside time for a weekly schedule session. You may want to resist adding something to your already packed schedule, but spending a half hour or hour on Sunday afternoon (or the day of your choice) can save you hours during the week.
- Update your priorities. It’s no secret. Part of our stressful lives is trying to adjust on the fly to constantly shifting priorities. When you set priorities at the beginning of each week, you can schedule time to work later on Monday to leave the office early for your son’s piano recital on Thursday. Something that you may have easily overlooked in the past becomes scheduled family time when you plan ahead.
Using the Juggle app, you can easily update priorities with a simple drag and drop of the compass score for each task.
- Balance your life roles and goals. Another part of our modern day stress is trying to balance work, family, friends, and all those items on our “someday” list. With a good scheduling app like Juggle, you can make sure each week contains a good balance between all the hats you wear in life.
Juggle lets you customize each role to help you categorize your busy life in the way that makes sense for you. Then you can juggle your priorities to make sure all areas of your life are getting adequate attention.
- Fill your schedule based on your priorities. Once you have identified the most important tasks for your week, you can easily fill your days with urgent must-dos, followed by important obligations, with some room left over for those less pressing tasks that you would still like to accomplish.
Juggle automatically sorts your tasks for you based on the two-factor prioritization of urgency and importance so you can see at a glance what your time demands will be for the next week.
- Communicate adjustments to the effected people. A huge part of relieving stress from your schedule is being able to anticipate changing priorities in time to communicate effectively with everyone involved.
Juggle lets you easily communicate with others about changing priorities.
Take control of your schedule and ease some of the stress from juggling your multiple roles. Visit the app store and download Juggle today!
By: Kady Category: Task Management, Time Management Tags: Prioritization, Time management
