Time Management Solutions – How-To

Time management techniques do not change the amount of time we have, they merely help us to use the resource more effectively.

Time management involves little more than a collection of simple, easily implemented, and powerful ideas to help you manage your time. ‘Down time’ is built into the system. Human beings are not supposed to work all of the time.

Here are seven time management techniques for you to consider for yourself:

Adopt the techniques that are right for you:

• Plan your use of time. Make lists. You can make lists of things to do today, this week, or this month. Pick the time span that works for you.

• Prioritize. Decide what is most important and what can wait. Use the ABC method. For all the items on your list mark them either with an A, B, or C. A’s are the things you ‘must do.’ These are critical to your survival. “B’s” are things that it would be ‘good to do’ and C’s are things that you ‘could do’ if you had the time. Reassign all the B’s to either A or C and cross off all the C’s.

• Do tasks when you are best at them. Choose morning or night, Monday, midweek or weekend.

• Learn to say no to demands on your time.

• Schedule special times for phone calls, for visiting, and doing reports. Otherwise avoid interruptions by disconnecting the phone or limiting time for visitors.

• Learn to delegate and ask for help.

• Break overwhelming jobs into manageable parts.

• Use the ‘once over’. When you pick up a piece of paper do something with it, even if it is only marking a note on the corner. For things that you have no more use for, use your ‘circular file’ or trash can. The fewer papers you have to plow through, the more time you save.

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Adapted from Bodylessons by Marian Wolfe Dixon (Findhorn Press, 2005). Copyright (c) 2005 by Marian Wolfe Dixon. Reprinted by permission of Findhorn Press.
Adapted from Bodylessons, by Marian Wolfe Dixon (Findhorn Press, 2005).

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Melissa F.

8:35AM PST on Jan 14, 2012

I needed these tips, thank you!!!!

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Michele W.

1:07AM PST on Dec 17, 2011

Thank you

KS G.

12:32AM PST on Jan 8, 2011

Thanks for the article.

Catherine C.

11:30AM PDT on Oct 25, 2010

no!! see.. I can do it.. LOL..

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Thanks for the reminders...

Bon L.

4:35AM PDT on Aug 11, 2010

Thanks for the info.

Ellinor S.

2:59PM PDT on Apr 20, 2010

thank you

Janice P.

3:27PM PDT on Apr 12, 2010

I will try these ideas. Saying "No" is often hard. My solution to managing my time has been just to get a bigger calendar, with bigger spaces to write in more entries. It didn't work, as you can imagine.

Lynne V.

5:18PM PDT on Apr 2, 2010

Thank you for the great tips.

5:33AM PST on Mar 13, 2010

Jonn N.

10:26AM PST on Mar 12, 2010

All wonderful advice and comments which I have implemented in my busy life and schedule for the past 35 years or so. I started first by making listings and checking them off when the task was completed. I would also delegate family and friends to help in my causes and this made a big difference. Now I got to spend time on the more important or higher up the echelon of more needful priorities. Being on Care 2 has taught me many nuances that I forgot about or simply didn't use in my daily activities. So once the lists are done, I spend an enjoyable time with new found friends working together in saving a people, animals, plants, whatever, cause that interests me, I have allotted time to seek out things which bring joy and solace to my soul.