Introduction
You are surrounded by this person who is always busy, time for him is something that he can't control. When you ask him to do anything, he starts complaining about his job and how he stays at work all day.
After having dinner at night, you went to bed and before getting asleep you ask yourself: Is there a way to extend time?!
The answer is like what Heisenberg said:
Defining Time Management
We are living in a very fast world that needs a flexible kind of people who can do more tasks and activities in less time. Also is one of the main skills in any person's resume in the 21st century.
Time management is simply defined as the process of organizing time to perform various activities. If you master this skill, it will return to you with many benefits that will raise your life scale. In contrast, a lot of damages and stress will occur, If you didn't control your time.
“Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.” Stephen R. Covey
Importance of Time Management
Believe it or not, time management is one of the keys to success, even if they made a study to see what is the most common adjective between successful people, time management simply is one of them. So, let's discuss its importance.
Efficiency
Efficiency is not effective, efficiency is the ability to accomplish something with the least amount of wasted time, money, and effort. Effectiveness is working to achieve the expected results. It is clear that efficiency is better and to achieve the efficiency you need to learn more about time management.
Reducing Stress
Deadline is like a ghost for little kids in their bedroom. It causes a lot of trouble and even less productivity when we always feel that the deadline is near. If you know how to manage your time you will gain more time and higher productivity.
Better Career Opportunities
Mastering time management will be like an assistant who helps you in organizing your work for better results, save more time to improve your skills, do more tasks in less time, and learn more to get promoted or move to a better position.
Relationships
Research has been made in one of the leading universities in psychology over long decades they found the reason why more than 50% of human lives longer is due to relationships. Your family and friends should be your priorities in life. They are feeding one of your psychological needs (Care and Protection). Time management gives you the opportunity to spend more time with them.
Time Management Techniques
There are many proven ways that will help you organize your work and life. But those are the most famous ones that work with various types of people from different places.
Pomodoro Technique
In 1980, Francesco Cirillo has invented this method. Many years passed and it is now one of the best and succeeded methods. The method is quite simple, you will have a short break in every task you do. For example, you are doing a task and it will take 1-hour, so after you finished, have a 4-5 minutes short break then continue your task, and so on.
Eisenhower Matrix
You put your goals and everything is prepared, the next step is prioritizing. Prioritize your tasks into a quadrant of 4 main elements. In this point, I will explain it using a principle called "A picture is worth a thousand words ".
Use Tools
Yes! Technology didn't let anything. Just one additional tab in your browser or one more application on your mobile phone will simply helps you in organizing your work such as:
- Trello
- Scoro
- Active Collab
- ProofHub
- Toggl
- Harvest
There are many of them but remember to choose what you really feel is suitable for you, don't choose something complicated that you can't use!
Conclusion
In the end, your time is not less important than money. You could buy a watch but not time. People spend their life studying time and how to return back. Old people always remember and regret every moment of their life and wish returning back. Time is your wealth, don't waste it. Study, learn, and implement methods to organize your life and become less stressed. Last advice, there is no ship without a destination. so, before organizing your time, remember are you in the right direction?