HOW TIME MANAGEMENT AFFECTS YOUR LIFE

How Your Time Management Affects Your Life

“Lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin Franklin

All people are taught about the essence of time management, but do you really realize just how crucial it is? As you already know, time management refers to the effective use of your time for completing the necessary tasks.

Managing Time

Usually, the need for managing time occurs in workplaces and schools, although these are not necessarily the only places where time management can come in handy. You might think that managing time is something easy but the truth is, this is far from being that. Whether it is good or bad, time management can greatly affect the life of an individual.

Proper time management has unlimited effects. Both at home and at the work place, proper management of time can pave the way for the accomplishment of more duties and activities.

At the workplace, knowing the benefits of managing time and implementing a good plan for it can result to better quality of work that is produced in a faster rate or speed. This can also involve the creation of a schedule for taking breaks and working. Most employees learned that managing their time at work instead of spending time talking to coworkers give them satisfaction on their productivity and more stability with their job.

When time is not managed properly in the workplace, things will not only become stressful but even dangerous. An employee who does not manage his or her time end up rushing to complete projects that can lead to a low quality of work, and this can result to termination when worse comes to worst. The risky aspect of wrong time management can also increase significantly based on the kind of job. For instance, in the case of construction workers, rushing their job in the hope of beating the deadline can result to serious injury or worse, even death.

Similarly, time management is also important when you are at home. Many people today are unorganized and fail to complete their day to day family activities and tasks. In the case of most families, they find it much easier to manage time by coming up with a family schedule that can include chores, homework, and certain family activities. It has already been proven that when things at home are done quickly, family members also get to spend more quality time together.

But while proper management of time has amazing advantages, doing it in the wrong way can be just as equally devastating. When time is not managed properly, it can negatively affect the workplace, the home and all other people around you. At home, there is a possibility that improper management of time can lead to unnecessary tension among the members and family disagreements. Families that lack the proper sense of managing time are also more likely to miss their scheduled activities, be late for the events at work or school, and not spend some quality bonding time together.

Without a doubt, time management can greatly affect the life of a person. If done properly, it can make life better and happier but a single wrong move can turn things upside down, that is way extra care is always needed when managing your time, be it at home or at the work place.

MOTIVATIONAL

                   Motivation Key Setting Realistic Goals

A goal by definition is the end result of achieving your objectives. Some people hope to achieve success by becoming the first to walk on unexplored planets, others aspire to fly aircraft that have not yet been invented and still, others hope to become billionaires overnight. Without the requisite years of training or skills, these goals may not be possible and thus lack the realism I encourage. When we hinge our success and by extension our happiness, on achieving goals that may always be out of our reach for whatever reason, what kind of enjoyment will we find in life when we fail to achieve them? Bear in mind, however, that there is a huge difference between setting realistic goals and limiting yourself. That is why my encouragement to you is to set goals that are S.M.A.R.T and thus realistic.

The acronym S.M.A.R.T means that our goals will be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time bound. 

When we employ this kind of framework to analyze our goals, we are less likely to end up disappointed and it will be easier for us to stay motivated to work towards this goal. 

If your aim is to simply invent something great, sometime in the course of your life, that goal would neither be specific, measurable, achievable or time bound. Working towards a goal that indeterminate will lead you in circles and be very discouraging. If your goals are to be considered realistic, they must meet up to the requirements of all the other aspects of your S.M.A.R.T analysis. So even if you hope to achieve great things by the time you are twenty-three but have not really set a specific means to achieve this goal, you will not be very motivated to get much done. S.M.A.R.T objectives ensure that you direct your efforts in the right direction and do not waste time trying to re-invent the wheel or striking the air. Working towards something that is impossible for whatever reason will leave us too discouraged to achieve much else. 

But this is a very touchy topic for me because men like the great Steve Jobs, Ronald Wayne, and Steve Wozniak, did indeed achieve what was thought impossible by their contemporaries when they invented Apple Inc. So where does one draw the line between realistic and ludicrous?

ASK YOURSELF THESE QUESTIONS ?

• Do I have the skills need to achieve this goal?

• If not, how long will it take me to learn this skill?

• Do I have the requisite time and energy to achieve this goal?

• How much of my financial resources will I need to

accomplish this goal?

• Is accomplishing this goal going to have a positive impact on

those around me?

• Do I have the discipline required to achieve this goal?

• Am I willing to suffer the consequences of trying to achieve

this goal?

• Are my family and friends going to support my decision to

pursue this goal?

• Will I truly think of myself as successful if I achieve this goal?

• What will I do if I do not succeed on the first try?

Answering these questions will help you determine whether you have the drive to accomplish the goals you have in mind. These questions are not to discourage you but to help you prepare

yourself to become successful.