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SOME TIME MANAGEMENT HINTS FOR A BUSY LIFE
THE MOST COMMON TIME WASTERS, I believe, are:1. Telephone Interruptions 2. Drop-in Visitors 3. Meetings 4.Crisis Management 5. Lack of Objectives, Priorities a Daily plan6. Cluttered Desk, Personal Disorganization. 7. IneffectiveDelegation 8. Attempting too Much at Once 9. Lack of ClearCommunication 10. Inadequate, Inaccurate Delayed Information 11.Indecision and Procrastination 12. Confused Responsibility andAuthority. 13. Inability to Say “No”. 14. Leaving TasksUnfinished 15. Lack of Self-DisciplineMORE COMMON TIME WASTERS (IN RANK):1. Planning (lack of).2. Priorities (lack of)3. Telephone interruptions4. Cluttered/cluttered desk5. Procrastination6. Visitors7. Lack of Self Discipline8. Ineffective delegation9. Attempting too much10. Inability to say ‘No’The 80/20 Principle:20% of activity gives 80% of results and 80% of activity gives20% of results (known as the Pareto Principle). * Focus on theimportant few activities, not the trivial many. * Don’tprocrastinate * The key is self discipline. * “First we makehabits, then habits make us.”"When we control our time, we master our life”Good luck
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The point about lacking self discipline overlaps procrastination.
Both issues are closely related to trawling the internet and getting sidetracked by things that don’t contribute to our roles, goals and priorities.
As a teacher, I see teenagers getting distracted all the time, particularly by two things:
1. social networking sites
2. their phones
I guess it’s not just kids that have those issues!