Turning Notes and To-Do Lists into Focused Time Management
If you are organizing your days with notes to yourself and to-do lists scattered across your desk and devices, now is the time to take those ineffective time management habits and turn them into focused time management that increases your productivity both personally and professionally.
Find a tool that works for you. You need a time management tool that allows you to take all of those notes and lists and incorporate them into a dynamic task schedule. Juggle allows you to balance and manage tasks from up to seven roles in your life. You can even record notes about each task to help you complete it when the time comes.
Write out your task list. This can seem daunting, but listing out everything you need to do is the first step in recognizing your priorities and identifying which tasks you may actually be able to cut out.
Keep a record of your time for a week. No one is good at time estimates. You will undoubtedly estimate too little or too much time (usually too little) for most tasks on your list. In Juggle, you can enter time estimates for each task to help you set priorities.
Prioritize and schedule your tasks for the next week. Armed with all of the knowledge you have collected, you can create your new task list. Juggle will dynamically organize your list based on the urgency and importance of each task.
Leave time for interruptions. This is an often overlooked essential of time management. No one is productive for 16-18 waking hours every day. Remember in setting your tasks that you do actually need time each day for breaks, dinners out, exercise, and rejuvenating downtime. Make these part of your task list and Juggle will make sure you are reminded to keep time for yourself.
Review your successes and readjust. Things happen that you cannot control. Deadlines shift at work. Your spouse accepts dinner invitations you didn’t know about. Your children sign up for events before asking you. Using Juggle, you can easily reassess and reorganize priorities to fit changes in your life day to day.
By: Kady Category: Uncategorized Tags: Time management
