The Importance of Time Management

Because the world has become so much busier thanour of their employees and that each hour they are
a hundred years ago (or even 20 years ago!), one ofpaid it has benefited the company. Although breaks
the most common problems facing people today isare essential, taking too many breaks will eat away
Time Management. It is so common today to beat your productivity. If their time is not managed
totally overwhelmed with multiple tasks and jobs thatproperly, employees will that more time has to be
it becomes very difficult to be able to identify whichspent on a project, which most likely means
tasks you need to accomplish first. Unfortunately, theovertime. If you are being paid hourly, then good for
common result is that people spend way too muchyou, as your overtime pay will be more. However, if
time trying to decide which ones are the mostyou are paid a set salary or by each project, more
important that they lose track of time and no tasksof your free time will be eaten away and you will
get completed on time. As a result, their free timehave nothing monetarily to show for it. In the end,
gets eaten up and they miss out on things that areyou miss out on important things in your life, such as
much more satisfying such as time with family.time with family, friends or hobbies.
Time management at school - Where it all shouldThe Heart of Time Management
begin!With the above scenarios, it all comes down to the
One of the best things I learnt at university was howsame thing - effective time management. By having
to manage my time, especially when it came downthis skill, you'll soon find out you can do more in less
to handing in assignments on time. However, I had totime. You need to allocate your time properly and
learn it the hard way! Time management skills shouldefficiently. By doing so, you'll be finishing your tasks
be the FIRST thing a college or university studentquicker, and you'll also find that tasks aren't
learns, instead of how to party and drink hugeoverlapping each other, which also robs you of your
amounts of alcohol. What makes time managementprecious time.
so difficult is a new sense of freedom that theyThe best thing to do is to write down your tasks for
didn't have at high school or at home. They now canthe day and their due dates. The reason for this is
choose their own schedules and subjects (andmore than just a reminder they need to be done.
sometimes when they have to go to lectures), whichThey also serve to remind you of the urgency. By
gives them a false sense of freedom that they canhaving the time on the list as well, it compels you to
do whatever they want and when they want. Itfinish the most important tasks first, and this will
suddenly forces them to work out their priorities andincrease your efficiency at work. Hello, promotion!
how they can be inserted into their schedules.Other than becoming more efficient at work, you
By having a lack of time management skills, a studentgain a sense of responsibility as well. You not only set
will have a much more difficult time meetingyour priorities properly, but you then provide equal
assignment deadlines set by professors as more timetime for your work/school work and your leisure
will be spent slacking off (or recovering from lasttime.
night's big keg party!). Although some professors willThe Best Benefit of Time Management
let deadlines extend under certain circumstancesThe best benefit of having proper time management
(they CAN be reasonable most times!), they willis that your work efficiently will improve immensely,
become less and less lenient if they feel you areand this WILL get noticed. By becoming more
wasting your time or you simply can't get your actefficient, you will be completing your tasks sooner,
together and organise your life!thereby having more time to make sure no mistakes
If a student simply took some time to prepare ahave been made. If you find a mistake, you'll have
schedule of the work tasks that need to be donemore time to correct it. This ensures the quality of
and by when, and most importantly to STICK to theyour work remains high. With poor time management
schedule, he or she would be surprised how muchskills, this extra time doesn't happen and you risk
free time they suddenly have to get everythingsubmitting sub-standard work.
done! Of course, there will be times you need to giveHaving good time management skills can be
up going out and socialising in order to finish anysomething that will make you a much better student
assignments, but that's where your priorities come in.and/or a much more valuable employee. In both
The long-term gain will far outweigh any sort ofcases, your work output will be much higher than
party you can go to!those who do not possess these valuable skills, as
Time management at work - The story continueswell as the quality. There are numerous books that
Ok, you've graduated college or you are startinghave been published that will provide a much more
your first job. Now is the time when timedetailed guidance on how to start developing your
management skills become more important. Why istime management skills, so try picking up one of
this, I hear you ask? It's now because someone isthem. When you find you have more free time, you
PAYING you to do something, and if you don't do itcan spend it with the important things in your life,
on time, you are wasting THEIR money, not yours!such as family, friends, or indulging in your favourite
Companies will try to make sure they get the mosthobby.