Things To Do ListsBecome a Time Management
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- Manage your time more effectively
- Reduce stress levels
- Feel a sense of accomplishment
- Feel in control
Write Things Down!
Every night before leaving the office, I would take 5 to 10 minutes to write down all the tasks that needed to get done. Phone calls to make, personal notes and errands, work projects, you name it, and it went on that piece of paper.
Writing tasks down is a great time management tool and some of the best ways to utilize these are as follows:
- Prioritize and re-prioritize tasks as needed (transfer items that didn’t get done from the previous day to the next day and re-prioritize)
- Project management (keep a master list of your projects and use daily lists to breakdown the tasks as needed)
- Write everything down that needs to get done from professional to personal tasks
- Delegate tasks and follow up to check status
- They keep you organized
- Calm you down taking away the worry and frenzy of feeling overwhelmed
- Make you feel in control
- Make you feel good to see the progress made each day
If you're pressed for time at the end of the day, then use other time management tools such as....
Leave yourself reminder voice mails to do something.
Send reminder e-mails to yourself.
I even use my 12 year old to remind me to pick things up as we're walking into a store.
The time management system of writing to do lists has organized my life bringing me more sanity and order and I know it will for you too.
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