3 Key Time Management Actions

 

A principle of time management says that hard time pushes out soft time.  This means that hard time, such as working, will push out soft time, such as the time you spend with your family.  If you don’t get your work done at the office because you don’t use your time well, you almost invariably have to rob that time from your family.  As a result, because your family is important to you, you find yourself in a values conflict.

There are three key questions that you can ask yourself continually to keep your personal life in balance.

 The first question is, “What is really important to me?”  Whenever you find yourself with too much to do and too little time, stop and ask yourself, “What is it that is really important for me to do in this situation?”  Then, make sure that what you are doing is the answer to that question.


The second question is, “What are my highest value activities?”  In your personal life, this means, “What are the things that I do that give me the greatest pleasure and satisfaction?  Of all the things that I could be doing at any one time, what are the things that I could do to add the greatest value to my life?”


And the final question for you to ask over and over again is, “What is the most valuable use of my time right now?”  Since you can only do one thing at a time, you must constantly organize you life so that you are doing one thing, the most important thing, at every moment.