article on time management?

Answer 1

time management is one of the important aspect in any of the works in our daily life.we know that time is so precious so that it cannot come again.So we must utilise time correctly

Answer 2

Got a few minutes to spare? If your answer is in the negative, more the reason you should find time to read on time management
Take a notepad. Write down the answers to the following:
• What is my mission in life as far as my career, bank balance, family, self and society are concerned?
• What are my specific goals in each area, and by when am I committed to achieve these goals?
• Is time the limiting factor or is the block somewhere else?
• How is it that others around me seem to be progressing much better?
Read what you have just written. You will find that both your mission and goals are unclear and, perhaps, uninspiring. Now take a few more minutes to check out what is really in the way. Here are some commonly received responses. Do some of these match yours?
• Too many visitors and meetings.
• Your colleagues lack capability, enthusiasm and commitment, thus making delegation difficult or, perhaps, impossible.
• The management lacks vision and its policies are unsuitable for a good performance and personal growth.
• Family demands clash with work commitments.
• Too much work pressure.
• A lack of enthusiasm/ motivation/ confidence/training.
• Poor planning.
These, and many others, block our overall performance at work. But the real issues actually fall in three categories:
• Issues that can be addressed by systematically organizing appointments, meetings and other work. You could use an effective reminder system, make lists, or even turn to sophisticated software.
• Issues that relate to the lack of a clear-cut direction in life, both at work and at home. This is like living without a framework of reference, or a mission, and not setting goals.
• Issues that are governed by beliefs such as: Good people are not available; If I can spend more time with my family, I will be happier; and so on.
Most time management programs basically address the first category. These programs come with various attractive labels and send you home, armed with smart planners, colored markers, digital diaries, the latest software, etc. But to unleash your true power, you require to expand your effectiveness in the other two categories. The key to successful living is to focus on how to produce results with the environment just the way it is and, only if you cannot resist it, then try to reform it. If you choose to Go For It Now (GOFIN), read on...
Inverse Parkinson's Law: "Time will expand to allow the work allotted to it to get done." Validate it with examples from your life. Most of us rush to complete our deadlines one day before, say, the start of our vacation. Miracles are known to occur under the pressure of deadlines and the fear of costs or embarrassment. Normally these deadlines are created by others. You can now put this distinction to work to produce Miracles by Design.
Instead of waiting for deadlines from others, create your own deadlines, and be committed to them. Putting something at stake is essential. Declare your deadlines to your colleagues or family, promise to pay a penalty if you cannot meet them. Get into the driver's seat, be on top gear, accelerate by living the Inverse of Parkinson's Law.
Your level of enthusiasm or inspiration (let us call it human energy) largely determines the day's performance. But human energy tends to vaporize quickly. Each time a small expectation is left unfulfilled, a bit of this energy evaporates. No tea/coffee, bathroom not free, late newspaper, flat tire, delayed arrival at office...each unfulfilled expectation, however insignificant, drains your energy.

To avoid disappointments of all kinds, I recommend a simple shortcut. Just have no expectations at all. At times, however, this may not be possible, for the truth is that we cannot always control our expectations. The good news is that Recharging by Design is possible.

How do you get out of breakdowns that involve a feeling of deep hurt, embarrassment or failure? You tell yourself something like: I am not going to let this incident ruin my life. You move ahead, gradually the hurt disappears. The point is that you don't stop.

Now apply this same reasoning at your office. The moment any expectation is not fulfilled, declare:
• "This is it" or any sentence that works for you.
• "I am not going to let it stop me and I am complete about it."
• "I am committed to pursue..."(repeat your goal).

Each time you repeat these three steps, you will experience a sense of completion and rejuvenation. Try it for a few days, for small upsets. Then for big ones. With practice, you will find that you are always in full charge.

Identifying what you want in life is essential. Most of us do not have a Mission Statement. Simply put, start with the end in mind. Just make a note of where you would like to be at the end of your life. You could cover areas such as earnings, savings, assets, family, hobbies, travel.

This need not be your final statement, you can always review it. Declare this statement to people who will support you. Display it in a prominent place. Now derive goals in each area and work on achieving them. You are now "on purpose" all the time. Purpose as defined by you.

A word of caution, though. While declaring your mission, focus on what you want to pursue, and not on what looks feasible right now. Focus on actions as given by the future, not the past.

Are you willing to take a stand for your mission? Say so. Declare it periodically. Talk to yourself: This is where I want to be. And I am willing to keep chasing it, irrespective of the level of achievement. Check the way you feel. Declaring a stand and then pursuing it will give you freedom.

Each time you are in doubt, just use your Mission Statement and list of goals to make a choice. It will help create Success by Design.

And that is freedom.
(i hope ths wrks for u)aashu

Answer 3

Time management includes tools or techniques for planning and scheduling time, usually with the aim to increase the effectiveness and/or efficiency of personal and corporate time use. These are embodied in a number of books, seminars and courses, which may offer conflicting advice. The common denominators of these strategies are a to-do-list, setting priorities and goal management. Some of the best known examples of time management strategies are tied to specific lines of time management products.

Time management for personal use is a type of self-management. In a corporate setting, time management software can satisfy the need to control employees, make it easier to coordinate work and increases accountability of individual employees.

Planning time and writing to-do-lists also consumes time and needs to be scheduled. This is one of the major criticisms of time management.

Contents [hide]
1 Overview
2 The four generations of time management
2.1 First generation: reminders
2.2 Second generation: planning and preparation
2.3 Third generation: planning, prioritizing, controlling
2.4 Fourth generation: being efficient and proactive
2.4.1 Criticisms of the Fourth generation
3 Techniques for setting priorities
3.1 ABC analysis
3.2 Pareto analysis
4 Time
5 External Links



[edit] Overview
Time management strategies are usually associated with the recommendation to set goals. These goals are written down and broken down into a project, an action plan or a simple to-do-list. Deadlines are set and priorities are assigned to the individual items on the to-do-list. This process results in a daily plan with a to-do-list. Some authors recommend a weekly instead of a daily perspective.


[edit] The four generations of time management
Stephen R. Covey offers a categorization scheme for the hundreds of time management approaches that are on the market today.


[edit] First generation: reminders
Aficionados of this approach limit their time management efforts to keeping lists and notes. They see these papers as reminders. Items that are not done by the end of the day are transferred to the next day's list in the evening. Covey also calls this type of style the "Far Eastern, Go with the Flow".


[edit] Second generation: planning and preparation
People in the second generation use calendars and appointment books. They will note where meetings are held and identify deadlines; this is sometimes even done on a computer. As opposed to the first generation, the second generation plans and prepares, schedules future appointments, and sets goals.


[edit] Third generation: planning, prioritizing, controlling
Third generation time managers prioritize their activities on a daily basis. They tend to use detailed forms of daily planning on a computer or on a paper-based organizer. This approach implies spending some time in clarifying values and priorities.


[edit] Fourth generation: being efficient and proactive
Stephen R. Covey in First Things First, refers to his approach as the so-called 4th generation time management. For the fourth generation, he emphasizes the difference between urgency and importance in planning. For example: some people may go their entire lives completely missing out on important things (like spending time with their children before they have grown up) because it was never "urgent." The point is not to ignore urgent things, but to embrace important things without waiting for them to become urgent.

Urgency can be deceptive. It can make some unimportant things appear to be important. Also, making time for important things may require spending less time on unimportant things, regardless of their urgency.


[edit] Criticisms of the Fourth generation
Some critics of time management methods consider the whole concept of prioritizing by importance is flawed, since once a project has been taken on, all the work relating to it needs to be done. Questions of importance or non-importance are irrelevant. An illustrative example would be the building of an automobile, where the engine and wheels may be more important than the rear-view mirror and the carpets, but nevertheless a complete automobile would need the rear-view mirror and the carpets just as much as the engine and wheels. The critics would say that Covey correctly notes that, if you always action things on the basis of urgency, non-urgent things are never going to get done. But he fails to note that exactly the same applies to importance - if you always action things on the basis of importance then when do the non-important things get done? If trivial things are allowed to build up, they will gum up the works so effectively that the important work won't get done either.

Once an item that is characterized as unimportant is perceived to be necessary to an important objective, however, its priority should be adjusted to a higher level. Planning cannot be static. As von Moltke is reputed to have said, "Planning is everything. Plans are nothing."


[edit] Techniques for setting priorities

[edit] ABC analysis
A technique that has been used in business management for a long time is the categorization of large data into groups. These groups are often marked A, B, and C—hence the name. Activities that are perceived as having highest priority are assigned an A, those with lowest priority are labeled C. ABC analysis can incorporate more than three groups. ABC analysis is frequently combined with Pareto analysis.


[edit] Pareto analysis
This is the idea that 80% of tasks can be completed in 20% of the disposable time. The remaining 20% of tasks will take up 80% of the time. This principle is used to sort tasks into two parts. According to this form of Pareto analysis it is recommended that tasks that fall into the first category be assigned a higher priority.

The 80-20-rule can also be applied to increase productivity: it is assumed that 80% of the productivity can be achieved by doing 20% of the tasks. If productivity is the aim of time management, then these tasks should be prioritized higher.


[edit] Time
Different people may judge identical lengths of time quite differently. Time can "fly"; that is, a long period of time can seem to go by very quickly. Likewise, time can seem to "drag," as in when one performs a boring task.

In explaining his theory of relativity, Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that although sitting next to a pretty girl for an hour feels like a minute, placing one's hand on a hot stove for a minute feels like an hour.

Management is the process of getting activities completed efficiently and effectively with and through other people.

Management is "working with and through other people to accomplish the objectives of both the organization and its members." This definition places a greater emphasis on human beings in the organization; focus is on results to be accomplished (objectives), rather than just activities and adds the concept that personal objectives should be integrated with organizational objectives.

Answer 4

You don't need a thesis onTime.
If you kill time, time will kill you.