Time Management Insights

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Time Management Insights

• Create personal and professional mission
  statements
• Check what you do each week against them
• Set goals you would like to see on your tombstone
• Avoid unimportant work
• Your time is scarce
• Work should contribute to your goals
• Material based on the Harvard Management Update
  Article Entitled Fairly Timeless Insights on How
  to Manage Your Time by Jim Billington

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Time Management Insights (cont.)

• Overcome the Addiction to Urgency
• Urgent but relatively unimportant work e.g.,
  irrelevant meetings, emails, memos, faxes, calls
• Goal spend time on work that is truly important
  but relatively non-urgent
• Devote time each day when you are off-limits to
  work on your top priorities
• One hour during your peak energy period
• Under-schedule yourself

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Time Management Insights (cont.)

• Balance Your Life
• Use leisure time to achieve personal goals
• Watching TV may reduce stress but does not help
  achieve your goals of being a good parent,
  spouse, friend, etc.

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Six Handy Tips

• Dont interrupt your work when email comes.
• If a piece of paper calls for action, act then
  dont deal with the same piece of paper twice.
• Screen your phone calls.
• Consolidate call-backs, return-emails, and
  visitor time
• At the end of the week, throw out all the FYIs
  youve collected.
• Avoid meetings with more than 12 participants.
  Nothing will be accomplished.

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Weekly Activities Some Ideas

• Socialize with classmates
• Be efficient in your teams
• Reduce TV watching
• Dont skip sleeping, eating well, and exercise
• Reduce work hours
• Spend less money so you dont need to work as
  much
• Reduce your commute