Being busy versus being productive. That’s the war between exhibiting poor time management skills and utilizing exemplary time management skills. There are 24 hours in a day, eight of which we should be resting, leaving us approximately 16 hours of pure potential. If you are serious about being more productive with your time, it would behoove you to carefully analyze which of the following poor time management skills you might be allowing to interfere with your daily routine.

Procrastination

Probably the most common poor time management skill, procrastination kills progress. You can make all the to-do lists in the world, but if you don’t act on them nothing will ever get done. Procrastinators will argue they work better under pressure. However, that’s simply an excuse for being lazy and putting things off until the last minute. Procrastinators are habitually swimming upstream, against the current. Continue reading →

At the end of the day, we often find ourselves feeling like we were just spinning our wheels all day long and didn’t really get much accomplished. This is why planning and following a time management schedule is so important. By having the day, week or even month planned out in advance we don’t have to stress about what we should be doing or how to effectively divide time to get the most out of it.

Knowing how to create a time management schedule is just as important as actually following it. Have you ever been guilty of writing a to-do list and tossing it to the side? It’s quite common and there could be any number of reasons why the list didn’t make it to the finish line. Below you’ll find the key components of a successful time management schedule, strategies for creating a schedule, and tips on how to stick to it and get things done. Continue reading →