Manage Your Time – Get Wise – Prioritize! (Part 2)
Experts will say that you should spend most of your day working on important tasks. To do this, you must choose which tasks are important to you and which tasks can wait. This can be tricky. The best way to prioritize your tasks is by making a list. Write down everything you think you need to accomplish. Then number each by importance. Something that may be important to you, may not be important to someone else, so this step is about personal preference. Display your daily list in a place that you will constantly see. This will help you stick to your daily plan. List making may seem juvenile, but making lists actually take the stress out of jobs. Many times when you see a task written on paper, it looks much less intimidating then when it is only floating around in your head.
Time Management Skills
Prioritizing you life also involves the use of time management skills. Time management skills can help you accomplish more in a day, without feeling the stress of working harder. By using simply tactics like making your phone calls while waiting to pick your child up from school, you will accomplish more. Multi-tasking is a great way to get more done. Some people get more stressed by multi-tasking, so if you hate the thought of it, don’t even try it. If you feel confident with multi-tasking however, go ahead and get as much done as you can. You will be surprised what you can do waiting in a doctor’s office or at soccer practice.
