Good Time Management: An Introduction To Good Time Management

Introduction

“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Time management is the ability to use one’s time effectively or productively, especially at work. (Oxford Dictionary). Good time management is essential to success in everything we do in our daily life. Planning time before doing work allows more work to be done over a shorter time and enables us to do more things more efficiently. For example, studying at college and universities often involves homework and assignment’s dateline, to be able to meet the demands of studies, we need to plan ahead and spread our workload.

To-Do Lists

The first step of good time management is to know what you have to finish in a certain amount of time. Always find yourself missing deadlines, or do you always forget to do something important? This means you need to have a proper to-do lists to keep track of your progress. To-do lists are lists of all the tasks you need to carry out, most important tasks are written at the top of the list, whereas least important tasks at the bottom. By having a to-do list, make sure you write all your tasks in one place so you won’t have to waste time searching for your lists or left out any important tasks.

To prepare my to-do list, I write down a list of tasks that I need to complete on paper in a simplest and easiest way to read. If it is a very large task, I will break out the task into few sections so that I won’t miss out the small details in the task. I will then run through those tasks allocating priorities from A (very important, very urgent) to F (unimportant, not urgent). Once finish, rewrite the list in priority order. Complete A propriety tasks first, then the B, C and so on.

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