The “Time The “Time Management” Management”

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“We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.”

- Alice Bloch

Improve Your Time Habits

Identify Your Time Thieves

Prioritize What Matters Most

Daily Time Analysis Questions

The things that are easy to do…

Are also easy NOT to do!

How to Get Results

Wheel of Life

Managing Yourself, Not Time

• Each of us has 168 hours per week.• If we work 50 hours, that leaves 118 hours each

week.• If we sleep 8 hours each night, that leaves 62

hours each week.• 3 hours per day getting dressed, eating, driving –

that leaves 41 hours per week.

• What will you do with your extra 41 hours a week?

There’s Never Any Time

• You must have clearly defined goals for your life.

• It takes time to make time.

• You must set yourself up to succeed and count your successes.

• A Time Picture is a must!

Improve Your Time Habits

Is this the best use of my time right now?

The question is…

• Know your system, (electronic and/or paper)

• With You Always

• 2-3 Hours for Monthly Planning

• Schedule Priorities First!

• 5-10 Minutes for Daily Planning

• Prioritize Each Day

• Track Your Progress

The Time Commitments

• Schedule 2-3 Hours to Plan Upcoming Month

• Prioritize Top Goals

• Identify High Priority Activities

• Complete Goal Planning Sheets

• Set Up Tracking System

• Schedule Priorities First!

Monthly Planning

Daily Planning

• 5-10 Minutes to Plan & Prioritize

• Transfer Schedule from Monthly Planner to Daily Organizer Page

• Review All Commitments for the Week

• Organize Each Day

• Prioritize Imperative/Important Lists

• Close Out Each Day

Covey’s Time Matrix

Source: Steven Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

• Complete the Time-Wasters Exercise.

• What are your biggest time wasters? Who are your time thieves?

• How you can minimize the time wasters & manage the time thieves?

Identify Time Wasters

It’s all about Priorities!

•What are your High Priority Activities?

•In the eyes of my manager?

•In the eyes of the people I’m serving?

•Do you keep a To Do List?

•How about a To Don’t List?

To Do and To Don’t

• Make a commitment for the next 10 days.

• Complete the Daily Time Analysis Questions at the end of each day.

• Identify your 6 most productive and least productive activities during that timeframe.

• Create your ideal Time Picture based on what you learn.

Time Analysis

• Complete the Time Management Key Idea Action Plan (Page 3)

Key Ideas

Closing

•Closing Thoughts

•Questions?

“If you are not making the progress you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly

defined.”- Paul J. Meyer

The “Time The “Time Management” Management”

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