mplish and say no to the rest until a later time. Controlling these time wasters can help you have better time management and accomplish more throughout the day.Many ways have been suggested in how to manage your time, however, there is no single correct way. Planning your day and scheduling task can greatly help manage your time. If the day starts and you have no goals set or objectives to accomplish, your day will probably give the same results, as you set, virtually nothing. Plans will guide through the day’s distractions and keep you in course. The next step is to schedule the day’s tasks and objectives in a planner (25 Ways, 2001). This will also help keep you on task and also show a commitment to it. Without a plan or schedule you run a risk of accomplishing your goals to slowly, haphazardly, or not at all. Effective planning is the one of the main steps in becoming organized and becoming more efficient with your time management. Your plan must have a list of goals which you wish to achieve, fore specific goals are more likely to be met. You should be careful however, in making sure that your goals are realistic and able to be reworked if the unexpected does happen (H.T.S.P. Y.L., 2000). By expecting the unexpected and building a flexible plan, you will have a better chance of reaching all the goals you have set for yourself. Another thing to organize in your plan is time to prepare for any meetings and projects at least a day before (Seidler, 2001). This will help you to stay organized for the any upcoming work, knowing what it is you have to do and how you are going to go about do it.Once a plan has been established, you should then prioritize your goals. The goals should be prioritized from most important to least important, not from hardest to easiest. Objectives, which you may not want to do, may not be the most important or urgent and thus should not be attended to first. You should be careful not...
