Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Tools to manage time efficiently

Time management plays an important role in success of personal life as well as in career. Time management is as simple as extracting the most of the time you are awake in a day. At the same time it is as complicated as a set of practices, principles, skills, systems and more over tools.

What tool do you use to manage your time? Let us start with a simple list – calendar, to-do list. A calendar will be a calendar as long you see it as just a calendar. Enhance your calendar with a diary, mobile, or sites online like 30boxes, Google calendar, etc.

The Ti-Mandi (or Time and I) Window is one of the famous time management that most successful persons use. Its as simple as creating 2 by 2 column table. In the first row and first column list out all your works that are on priority for action (Important and urgent in other words). Assign the second column of the table to hold the list of all works that are important but can be put on hold for sometime. The second row and first column will be a list of all hot potatoes (that are trivial but demand an attendance in urgency). The last column of the table will hold all to-do thins that are a sheer time-trappers. They are neither urgent nor important.

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