Time Management for Creatives

1. Understanding Time: There will never be a sufficient time in a day for most off us, despite we all get the same $24 in a day. But wonder how a few people accomplish quite a lot more with their time than others. The ultimate response lies in managing time time. It is a finite resource we all have, but still most off us cannot properly use it. The world has a huge demand to master the subject. But time management is not just another easy skill to add in once resume because one should understand when we refer to time, we are referring to life. Yes, probably if you have guessed it. Time management is nothing but life management. We are bombarded by multiple attention seeking notifications in our riel and digital life, which divides our attention and spread it across many areas. As a result, we lose control off the situation, leading to give into poor management of time for important tasks off our lives. Just being busy and relentlessly chasing activity is not the solution, but one need to learn to focus, do the activities in a planned manner of it in stipulated time and cultivate attention management skills to equip ourselves to deal with the situation, understanding the difference between effectiveness and efficiency matters. Good time manager Always find extra time to live a quality life in accomplishing more. In this course, we will learn the concepts toe. Identify riel issues. Stopping one to be a good time manager will cover tools and technique to better manage time , such as smart goals to do list Time logs, to name a few. Also focus will be on rules for one to follow for better self management. Once finishing this course, one will learn to avoid pitfalls. A daily life throws on us, and we will respond with a strategy like a general in a battlefield to master and conquer the time fort off our lives. 2. What is time Management: there are many definitions which described the time management. Let us try to put it up in simple words. Time management is nothing but making every day, every hour, every minute and every second to count towards our goals as time as an intangible entity. We cannot directly access it, but we can only influence the outcome in our favor. Thus time management as a great to be used to monitor and control the time. Frequently we expect to perform multiple activities in limited time. In this event, it makes sense to talk about self management than just referring to time self management can be taught in is the true key to the time managers. We need to set goals to realize achievements as an outcome. All good time managers are good practitioners in achieving goals and objectives. So let us dive into gold settings. There are five rules, too smart goals and we will go through each rule. Number one specific goal. It is the first letter as off a smart goal for being specific. A clear vision off. What exactly you want to achieve is important the specific when defining your goal a constructive gold like I want to be national level swimmers more appropriate than just referring it as an athlete. Leave whatever you want to be, but be specific to help further. Five w and one edge questions are most helpful and artwork. They're when, who by on how. Let us understand it better. What is the first w question? An example could be to ask is what exactly happened? There is the second w question on example could be to ask is read. It occurred. When is the third w question on example? Could be to ask is, since when it's happening? Who is the fourth w question on example? Could be to ask is who is involved? Or having the concern? Why is the fifth w question on example? Could be to ask is why this issue should be focused on why it occurred. How is the one edge question on example? Could be to ask is how did it happen? These are the very important questions and helps in questioning while defining the goal. Leverage these questions to define your personal, smart specific goals. Let's head towards next Smart rule. Rule Number two. Measurable goal. It's the second letter M off Smart goal and stand for measurable estimate. A practical timeline. Big goals need big time or sometimes a lifetime. Be practical while putting on a timeline. If someone dared to eat an elephant, the best strategy is to eat it one bite at a time over a long period. Measurable goals help one. See if a goal is completed as planned. One should break down a goal into small, measurable units. Consider following questions when defining measurements. One. How much our biggest the goal to what are the indicators of progress? Three. How do one know if the goal is fully achieved? Leverage these questions to define your personal, smart, measurable goals. Let's head towards next. Smart rule. Rule number three. Achievable Goal. It's the third letter, a off smart goal and stand for achievable. Nobody should they dream to build the Roman Empire in one day because it is just not possible. Achieve ability off a goal, helped one stretch and challenge their limits, but should be defined well enough to make it achievable. Consider following questions when defining achieve ability. One who we know are heard have with the circumstances off hours have achieved the goal and how to do we have enough resources and capabilities to achieve what we have planned. Leverage these questions to define your smart, achievable goals. Let's head towards next. Smart rules. Rule number four. Realistic goal. It's the fourth letter are off. Smart goal and stand for realistic. Not all good sounding goals are really one. Should not marry a gold when it becomes unrealistic to pursue further, consider following questions when defining realistic goal one. Is the gold medal within reach to achieve realistically to what is the time and resource cost involved to reach the goal? Three. How dedicated and passionate are you to achieve the goal? Leverage these questions to define your smart, realistic goals. Let's head towards next smart rule. Rule number five. Timely Gold. It's the fifth letter T off Smart goal and stand for timely timers. Money. A gold without a deadline as just a fish. It's better to make a time blueprint for all our goals. The chances off accomplishing a goal on more if it's time bounded as there will be no urgency or motivation to achieve the goal. Consider following questions when defining timely gold one. When have you exactly planned to accomplish the goal two has one defined a proper deadline . Leverage these questions to define your smart, timely goals. Now take a time to reflect on all the five smart goals could overwhelm. At first glance, afraid not. They are the key to define goals better. 3. Hurdles in Time Management: Despite of being clear off what to achieve and the benefits off outcome, there are hurdles to come away to stop us to make progress towards mastering the time management. There are not external limitations, but deep rooted weaknesses and others follows procrastination. It's the strong emotional feeling to put off two days work to tomorrow, or laziness and simple words. Distractions comes in all forms and sizes, but a strong willpower is the need of the hour to keep the calm in following the part developed in achieving results. Turning procrastination toe passion is the art one needs to develop at every corner of distraction. One should start with planners to beat the procrastination. They could be daily, weekly, monthly and annual planners explored readily available planners and see if it fits your requirement and style. It does not always have to be a fancy one. A simple notebook or a Microsoft Excel sheet will also do. At the end. They are just tools to help you get things done with little or no distraction. Other most important tools to do list. We must keep a track off many activities spread across days, weeks, months and years. The nature of the activities may also be different. The simple way to manages to first identify them and organize according to their priority here is a simple way to identify the activities with a graphic symbol, such as open task completed task task with a deadline appointment notes and items to name a few. Think and come up with your own graphic symbols. Let's see an example to incorporate them in our daily to do list. Make a note off all your activities, identify and prioritize them, such as groceries, walks or exercises, bill payments, appointments and so on. As shown in the example, one can have a to do list activities for weekly, monthly and annually, so make a habit for off incorporating planner and to do list in your daily journey off goal achievement to keep procrastination at the base. 4. Risk in not managing the time: stress is the reward one will get if we do not manage the time for a goal leading to its failure. Studies have published on the impact stress generates not only on mental health, but physical, too. Sound plan with daily progress can help overcome stress. Let's discuss some key areas. One. Avoid wasting time. Keep a note off all the activities which result in wasting off time, if possible, avoided completely, or find workarounds to minimize its impact. Two. Time log. Cultivate the habit off recording time If one is poor at keeping track off this finite asset, a note up in a mobile or a pocket diary will do the trick and show you spare some time to check and reflect upon your findings with this exercise. Three. Delegate tasks. Tasks others can perform should get delegated than doing everything on their own. It helps in boosting productivity and gut time in achieving goals. So remember to incorporate these three points to value your time 5. Considerations for Time Managers: here we will discuss the positive habits one should cultivate. They are more personal for one to excel in life. One. Self discipline never given to immediate gratification for long term gains. A delay. Gratification helps to overcome a strong, impulsive behavior one need about off to gain self discipline. This will make you sail through uncomfortable situations. Start cultivating new habits and stick to them at any cost to being efficient and effective . Time. Play an important role for one to be efficient or effective. Their effectiveness is about doing the right things compared to efficiency. They're doing things right. Matter, however, both can produce the desired results. Switch the caps based on the circumstance and what will benefit you to make the goal possible. Three. Consistency Consistency is the key being consistent as difficult, but it is a basic requirement to achieve big goals over stipulated plan. Time for Reid Good and David Good Company. Once life gets hugely influenced by the choices they make, especially what David and who they meet. Inspirational books and like minded positive people are the best company to invest. Time five. Physical exercise and relax ation. Managing time does not mean you have to be serious. Make some time in your schedule for your body. A healthy physical body always helps in achieving more with less. So practice all the five qualities and build them one at a time at a steady phase. 6. Conclusion: Often the individuals set unrealistic goals, which only leads to failures and frustrations. We all need a sense of direction and helped to organize ourselves to achieve goals as we have gone through in this ghost on how to be smart by defining the goals on the rules of smart, which is specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timely, not caring much about our time has its own repercussions. Keep learning and exploring new studies and tools popping up every day around you to be a better time manager. Above all, take time for yourself to relax and enjoy the moments off life. Good luck.