Time management

I decided to talk about time management because a couple of months ago I was given a talk
about it and I found it quite interesting and revealing.

-What’s time management?

“Time management” is the process of organizing and planning how to divide your time
between specific activities. Good time management enables you to work smarter – not harder
– so that you get more done in less time, even when time is tight and pressures are high.
Failing to manage your time damages your effectiveness and causes stress.

-Advantages

 Greater productivity and efficiency. (If we knew how to manage our time we would be
more productive and efficient than we are.)
 Less stress. (Good time management means have all under control, and that sensation
produces us less stress.)
 Increased opportunities for advancement. (If we knew how to manage our time, we
would be able to do more things in our daily life.)
 Greater opportunities to achieve important life and career goals.

-Disadvantages

 Missed deadlines. (If we don’t manage our time, we probably find that deadlines
struggle a little bit and that means more stress.)
 Inefficient work flow. (If we don’t find the way to manage our time, we work less and
slow.)
 Higher stress levels. (This is related with the previous ones, when we aren’t in control
of our time, we aren’t able to find the way to deal with all our work.)
-Prioritizing

 Make a To-Do list. (As soon as you start your day, while you are having breakfast you
could plan your day. During the day you can add and change different things to the
list).
 Consider the value of the task before deciding to do it, is it worth spending your time?
(Nowadays we lose a lot of time in things we could avoid from our daily life in order to
do more important ones. For example, we lose a lot of time in our mobile phones).
 Prioritize your task. The most important jobs should be completed first. (If you have
several tasks to do, complete the most important one first and then continue with the
other ones).
 To help us realize if we are managing in a good way our time we could ask ourselves
some questions such as: Why am I doing this? What is the goal? What happens if I
chose not to do it?

-Procrastination

 Meaning: Procrastination means avoiding doing a task that needs to

be done. It could be further stated as a habitual or intentional
 delay of starting or finishing a task despite its negative
consequences.
 Is it certain? It’s not new that if we stop and think for a moment, I’m sure all of
us during the day skip doing things that we should do because we are
concentrate in less important ones.

Phrases like the ones Benjamin Franklin said: “You may delay but time will
not” and “Remember that time is money”, help us realize that we should not
lose our time.

 How can we avoid it? Procrastination affects a lot of people and we don’t even
realize that it happens and this could be a huge problem. In order to avoid
procrastination, we should think and ask ourselves if we are doing right in our
daily life and if we are not wasting our time.

And this gives me an introduction for the next part…

-People and mobile phones

These pics shows us an average of how much time people spend on their phones
instead of looking around them to see the world they have in front. We should try to
use less our phones because it’s an addiction for a lot of people and they are not even
conscious about it.

Noah Márquez Vara