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1. | Awareness - thinking realistically about time |
2. | Arrangement - designing, organising goals, plans, tasks to effectively use time |
3. | Adaptation - monitoring your use of time while performing activities, adjusting to interruptions or changing priorities |
1. | Build accurate self-awareness of your time management skills |
2. | Recognise that preferences matter, but not how you think |
3. | Identify and prioritise the skills you need to improve |
1. | Find your peak performance time |
2. | Treat your time like it's money |
3. | Try timing-up - record how long you've spent on tasks with clear deadlines, rather than how much time you have left |
4. | Evaluate how realistically you assess time |
5. | Think about how the tasks you are doing now will help/ hurt you in the future |
6. | When you think you're spending too much time on an activity, step back and evaluate its importance |
1. | Prioritise activities and obligations |
2. | Urgency and importance are not the same. Tasks that are both urgent and important should be done first |
3. | Use a calendar app |
4. | Schedule protected time |
5. | Reduce underestimation errors |
6. | Try half-sized goals |
1. | Tie your time management behaviours to habits you already exhibit |
2. | Use short bursts of effort to avoid procrastination |
3. | Experiment with time-trackers or checklist apps |
4. | When setting reminders, include detailed descriptions and explanations |
5. | Create contingency plans |
6. | Seek to reduce time-wasters/ distractions |
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