Control Your Day or Your Day Will Control You
submitted: 2008-04-07 15:06:14 |
by: ElliottRoberts
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Our days fly by so quickly that without a plan, it is easy to lose the value of them completely. All of the tasks we need to complete are easily neglected for things that pop up and grab our attention. When this happens too often, we are allowing the day to control us, when to be effective and successful we need to be in control of our days.
Spending time wisely naturally plays a big role in the level of success a person can achieve. You can read all the self help literature you want but without some sort of plan for your day, your day will simply "happen" to you. You will not accomplish much and you will miss out on new opportunities because you will be in such a constant state of being behind, that you will be out of time for anything else.
When you "participate" in your day, you are more efficient, less prone to stress, and caught up on tasks, leaving more time for leisure. The self help key to participating in your life is time management.
Time management begins with planning your day. Set a time each day or the night before to think about what needs to be done that day. Schedule this time just like an appointment and stick to it every single day.
Lastly, take your bigger projects and divide them into smaller more manageable tasks. They will get done quicker because you won't dread them so much, and your other, smaller tasks will not suffer because of it.
Planning may be key, but acceptance is important too, for even the best made plans can be thwarted by unexpected tasks. Realize that it is okay, deal with the situation and move on. It is so easy to put a small task aside to be completed later, not realizing the pile up you will soon be facing.
Otherwise they will pile up and leave you feeling stressed and overwhelmed. The other big time waster is the time spent starting a new project. There are some things we just do not want to do.
More time is often spent avoiding it than working on it. It has to get done no matter how much you wish it didn't. So decide whether you are going to work on it now or later, then move on and continue managing your day.
About the Author
The Author, Elliott Roberts, writes for Becomng, a Personal Development blog that covers issues from software to meditation. Find additional Time Management articles here.
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