7 Time management tips to get all your tasks done

7 Time management tips to get all your tasks done

You might have heard this phrase many times - “Time is money”. And it's true. If you want to achieve your goals you have to use your valuable time wisely with proper time management.

So that you may get benefited most by your work and get the most value of your time.

You can really make your time into money by following few awesome time management tips.

Time will never sufficient for you. Because you don't know how to do time management. Most of the time you set goals and try to achieve them in specific time frame but it gets difficult to stick with your goals.

Goals setting and achieving them is the greatest feeling for the human mind. As it gives immense satisfaction and satisfaction brings happiness.

To achieve your goals you need a certain amount of dedication and concentration. And most importantly the energy to complete the tasks required to achieve that goal completely.

Imagine if you become able to complete all those tasks you wish to do, how much greater success you can achieve in life. For that, you need to use your energy very efficiently and for this, you need to follow a good time management strategy and tips.

So let's see the reasons you are not able to complete the tasks and how to overcome those reason with most effective time management tips to achieve the goals and get success in your work.

1. Avoid perfectionism

You may want to do all of your tasks perfectly. You may want everything you do so perfect and awesome that there should not be present any mistake and your works also look better than others.

But this thinking not only brings you a stress but also wastes your valuable time. Why? Because you never feel satisfied with your work, whatever you do.

You may always think that there is always something missing in your work and you try hard to make it better and better.

Result? Only stress and dissatisfaction of non-completion of work. And most importantly the wastage of your valuable time in making impossible-perfection to possible.

The truth is “Nothing is perfect” in this world and never ever be. You first need to accept this truth. There will always be room to make things better from the way they are.

So just try to avoid the perfectionist behavior. Accept that you just need to complete the tasks first. There may be mistakes in your tasks but first, try to just complete it without having an expectation to make it perfect in First Go.

You can revisit the task and check for the mistakes and correct them. But first, try to complete the task, keeping in mind whatever you do will not be perfect. And you can make it better on next go.

This will give you the satisfaction of completion. Yes there will be a feeling of not completing the task perfectly and you may feel little fear of criticism because of non-perfectionism but it's okay.

Feel that feeling and stay with it, that feeling will fade off after some time.

2. Avoid multitasking

Always try to do and focus on one task at a time. I was making a mistake of doing multitasking and was not able to focus on any of the tasks fully.

What I was doing is while writing a blog I was keeping my television on, watching news or songs alongside. So I was always getting distracted by TV and not focusing completely on writing a blog.

Also, we try to start many things at once. We think that we can manage all the tasks after starting. But it really becomes very difficult to focus when we try to work on different things together.

What happens when you do multitasking?

Your mind takes at least 30 to 50 seconds to concentrate on a work you do. But because of distractions your mind loses that time to concentration and gets distracted.

This will leads to more energy consumption by the mind and mind will waste energy to again focus on the previous task and results in wastage of valuable time plus energy.

So for better time management, its always good to do one task at a time and focus completely on it.

3. Don't overwhelm yourself, divide the task into smaller parts

Many times you find that the task you are doing looks very big and sometimes feels impossible to complete. This is an “overwhelming” feeling.

You feel so afraid that even you become unable to start your desired task. And this leads to procrastination.

To avoid this overwhelming feeling just divide your task into smaller doable tasks. And focus one of them at a time.

This will result in managing tasks realistically and avoid your procrastination also.
This time management tip is very helpful for doing big projects and managing them. You can see this in more details in the topic Stop procrastination-How to complete all your work in almost half day.

4. Avoid fear of failure

You may also avoid starting your task because of fear of failure. This fear will work so strong that you don't even try to start your task.

You may fear that if you fail at the task to do properly you will be a failure all over your life. This will lead to lack of confidence.

This is also an overwhelming fear. And paralyze you to even try the thing out.

To avoid this fear always say to yourself “I don't need to be afraid of failure. It not the end of the world. I can try again.”. Avoid fear of failure and start working on your tasks. Have a positive thinking.

Always try to focus on the process of doing the task and enjoy doing it, instead of focusing on the outcome of your work.

5. Have a to-do list

Its very common but very very effective time management technique, to have a to-do list.
Just make a simple list of all the tasks that you need to do. Make a rough draft first. Then add the sequence to this list on the basis of importance and assign a priority number to each task.

This to-do list will clear your mind about which task needs more attention and time. Keep a small diary with yourself to make a to-do list.
Also on other pages, if necessary and if you feel, also write down the steps required to do the tasks, listed on your to-do list.

This simple but effective technique will improve your performance drastically. Just try it out.

6. Use 80/20 principle

As per 80/20 principle, you will get 80 percent of success because of only 20 percent of the work you do effectively.

For example, Microsoft identified that by fixing top 20% of most reported bugs 80% of the related errors and crashes in given system can be eliminated.

Also in athlete training, only 20% of exercises habits have 80% of the impact. So the trainee should not focus so much on all the other less important training.

Meaning is that you need to identify which tasks in your projects or a work will give you maximum outcome and which are the most important to complete first and focusing on them mostly, instead of cluttering your mind with so many less important tasks.

Follow this 80/20 principle for efficient time management and see the results.

7. Take rest

Your mind will only able to concentrate for maximum 30 to 40 minute at a single sitting. After that, you automatically try to find out distractions.

It's a natural phenomenon. Your mind tries to take a short break after a certain time frame because of its use of mental energy. After taking a rest mind recharges itself and again gets ready to work.

Just try to take short breaks of 5 mins after 40 mins. Stretch your hands and legs or just close your eyes and sit quietly for some time. This will refresh your mind and you will return with your battery fully recharge.
Decide at what time you have to stop working and strictly take a rest for a day. Always keep in mind, that your mind is not a machine. It's a muscle just like other muscles in your body. Muscles get tired after doing some work. You have to give them rest.

Similarly give rest to your mind also. This will improve your efficiency and the time you take to do your task will also get reduced.

Try to follow above 7 tips for efficient time management. Follow these tips regularly with consistency and you will see the results.

Always remember good result takes time and you can manage the time.

This article about Time management is written from the reference of awesome books named “The Power of Positive Thinking” By Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and “David D., M.D. Burns, Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy” by David Burns.

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