Time Management Mastery For Busy People: Make time your loyal servant rather than a terrible master

Table Of Contents
Foreword
Chapter 1:
Where Do You Spend Your Time
Chapter 2:
Managing Tasks
Chapter 3:
Planning
Chapter 4:
Goals
Chapter 5:
Tips From The Gurus

Foreword
Having a PDA, or utilizing additional technology, won't automatically make you
more efficient. It might take you a long time to get used to utilizing it to help
you manage your time. And then you'll have to make a habit of utilizing it. It
may work as well as any paper-based scheme, if you take the time to learn
how to utilize it correctly, and it has the benefits of compactness, the power
to search for words and phrases, the power to store crucial documents, and
so on. However, without acquiring the right habits in utilizing it, it may as
well be a brick. Lastly, you might discover that the correct system for you is a
hybrid one: maybe you use your PDA for Appointment and Contact
management and a paper planner for jobs and projects ... Maybe another
combination. My goal herein isn't to sell you on having a PDA but to show
what you are able to do with one, so you are able to try it out and see if it's
good for you.
Time Management Mastery For Busy People
Make time your loyal servant rather than a terrible master.

Chapter 1:
Where Do You Spend Your Time
Synopsis
A key to bettering your time management skills is to discover
how you're expending your time. It's simple to utilize your
PDA or PC for this. Simply set up a time log.

Choose Wisely
The sort, Importance, Effectiveness, and Efficiency fields are picked
out from pop-up lists that have the accompanying values:
Sort - Family, Personal, Business, Other Importance - 1 (crucial and
pressing), 2 (Important, not pressing), 3 (Not significant, but
pressing), 4 (Not crucial, Not pressing)
Effectiveness - 100%, 90%, 80%, 70%, 60%, 50% or less
Efficiency - 100%, 90%, 80%, 70%, 60%, 50% or less
The first time I utilized a time log, many years ago, I was truly
shocked at how much time I was squandering. To truly get value out
of it, you ought to utilize it for at least 3 typical days (not weekend
days). Then you ought to study it to see where you are spending time
ineffectively. A different useful log that you are able to track in a
database on your Pocket PC/Palm is one that seizes Rework actions.
Such actions are those that you need to re-do something on.
An easy example is that you formulate a set of demonstrations and
then need to rework it to address your boss's remarks. To get value
out of this sort of log, you ought to utilize it for at least 3 weeks --
occasionally rework doesn't come out till a couple of weeks after the
initial action. You are able to acquire a lot of efficiency by confronting
those areas where you've the most rework.
Once you have to pick among many tasks, there are a lot of
prioritization tools you are able to utilize. If you're in a rut with your

prioritization technique, trying out different techniques might yield
the one that's correct for you.
Note that it's generally accepted that 20% of your actions will account
for 80 percent of your success (The Pareto Principle). Therefore, if
you've a hundred tasks in your job list, likely about twenty of those
will be the key ones to center on. Therefore, whatever prioritization
technique you utilize, you ought to ensure it helps you pinpoint these
tasks.
Stephen Covey names a high-level prioritization scheme in his book
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. In that scheme, jobs are
categorized by 4 quadrants:
* QI - crucial and pressing
* QII - crucial but not ...