by Wahidabi Sulaiman

Created on: January 14, 2010

Everyone has 24 hours and that is that. It is how you make full use of the 24 hours that gets your things done. How is it that some of us have more time to do things we love and some of us are unable to cope with the daily routines? Time management is the answer. Well, we all can be the owners of our own time if we follow some simple strategies.

Establish a routine.

This is not saying that you do the same thing day in and day out. All you have to do is to establish a routine for the daily activities that you have to do. This would include your time for sleeping, time for meeting, time for eating, exercise, fetching kids from school, cooking and the other activities that you have to do everyday. Only you will know your daily needs. Hence, fit them in first before you can find time to fit the other activities into your time schedule. After the important tasks are taken care of, fix in other activities that you can do. This could be something like taking your friends out for lunch or calling your parents.

Keep a wall chart or a daily register.

This is like a diary or you can call it your log records. What this will do is help you identify your daily activities and help you mark off the duties as and when you have achieved them. You have to jot down everything you need to do, the day before or a week before or as you deem fit. You have to ensure that even the daily necessary jobs are catered in. This will save you the time of thinking what else is important in that day that you have to accomplish.

Accept Help or Delegate.

Accepting help and delegating solves the same issue. It helps to take part of your duty and assign someone else to do it for you. Accepting help and delegation does not mean that you are running away from responsibilities. Instead, think of it as being more responsible as you are trying to make full use of your time.

Do not procrastinate

Procrastination is a disease and it will do your health no good. Hence, you need to make a resolution right here and right now that you will not put off any duties that you are supposed to do. This way, you are actually eliminating the biggest hurdle in your time management strategy. Procrastination wastes a lot of time. You can actually finish your job if you would just do the job instead of thinking about the job at lengths. Some duties are hard to finish or some of them are boring. However, you have to do what you have to do. Even if you keep putting it off, there will come a time when you will eventually have

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