Time ManagementWritten by Gus
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5.Prioritize: While to-do lists are great, they may become a fascination in themselves. Always write items in to-do lists according to their overall priority. Try to write most important and difficult work at top, so that you start with it. The general tendency is to start with easy and repetitive works first—checking personal emails, making telephone calls, reading newspaper, filing papers, meeting people etc. While in themselves they may be important, they leave very little or no time for that comprehensive report about which you are procrastinating since months. 6.Avoid Procrastination: As saying goes, ‘Procrastination is thief of time.’ The best way to avoid procrastination is analyze your internal dialogue which prompts you to postpone. Once you understand internal monologue you could change it to solve problem of procrastination. 7.Avoid Seemingly Important Activities which may not be very Useful to you: While many of present day facilities define a modern man, depending on your work and position some of them may not be very useful to you. If you are really busy and focused person, some of things and activities considered so necessary for a modern person may not be useful to you. Depending on your individual circumstances such activities may be: reading newspapers and magazines, seeing TV, surfing Internet, checking emails frequently, telephoning friends, attending meetings, seminars, functions, receiving and seeing off people at airport, etc. 8.Delegate: It is useless trying to do each and everything yourself. Delegate powers and work. It will save a lot of time. 9.Don’t try to be Perfect: Perfection is a good thing. In fine arts we aspire to be perfect. But in some activities of life, just good would do. Most of our daily life personal and official chores require that we just do what is required. The extra time and energy spent perfecting it is generally not proportionate to extra benefit. 10.Always Remember Time is Money: In fact it is more important than money. It is priceless. We keep strict accounting between friends and even family members. But we never keep accounts with respect to time! Be stingy about time. Lost or spent money can come back; lost time is lost forever.Gus Contact: gus@thelifebeautiful.com www.thelifebeautiful.com
Gus is the writer of the recent ebook Be Happy! The Guide comes with an Action Plan. The Guide, divided into three parts of Body, Mind and Heart, and Soul, deals with various sources of happiness and how to be happy. The Action Plan gives To-Do lists, Happiness Quotations, Affirmations and Meditations, etc. We have recently launched a website dedicated to happiness, success, and health. Please visit it now: www.thelifebeautiful.com
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That's correct - just 21 days, but it has to be a solid 21 days (give or take a few). If you find yourself skipping intended event right before it becomes a habit, you've missed pattern it often takes and you should plan on starting over as though it were day one again. In grand scheme of things, 21 days is not that much of a sacrifice. It may be a bit inconvenient, but vast number of gains you'll receive should be well worth it. So next time you can't quite figure out why you couldn't stick with your intended goal, ask yourself if you were able to stay with it long enough to truly make it a habit. If answer was no, now is as good a time as any to get on ball and develop that habit pattern that will lead to your eventual achievement. Here's to your success, Josh Hinds
Josh Hinds of http://GetMotivation.com specializes in helping people to achieve maximum success and live the life of their dreams. He is also the co-founder of http://AudioMotivation.com
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