Time Management

Time Management

Time Management: Why Should Everyone Master This?
Dawn McMurray
Axia College of the University of Phoenix
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In this paper I will give you exactly what time management is, and why I feel it is a skill everyone should master. By the time you finish reading this, I hope you will agree with me as to why everyone should master this skill.
This is a direct quote from Wikipedia on the subject: Time management refers to a range of skills, tools, and techniques used to manage time when accomplishing specific tasks, projects and goals. This set encompass a wide scope of activities, and these include planning, allocating, setting goals, delegation, analysis of time spent, monitoring, organizing, scheduling, and prioritizing. Initially time management referred to just business or work activities, but eventually the term broadened to include personal activities also. A time management system is a designed combination of processes, tools and techniques.
Time management is just that; managing your time so that you aren’t wondering how the time just slips out of your hands. Time management can help you put events in perspective, avoid double or overlapped appointments, prioritize your schedule, and keep you on track. It works for school as well as other parts of your life like work and friends or family.
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Set attainable priorities. Decide on the single most important task to do at any one moment. Create clear, specific goals for each day or even each hour–writing them down, if necessary, on a “to do” list with the most important at the top and going down from there. Do not go on to the second job (or goal) until you have completed the first. I make “to do” lists every day, and cross out the task once I have completed it.
Decide what you want to do and realistically can do and then say “no” to everything else. (Don’t worry, most of the time you won’t offend anyone by telling them you can’t do something.) To make it
easier, tell everyone in...