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How to prioritize self-care in the workplace
How to adapt to new work arrangements
How to maintain work-life balance
List Your Tasks & Obligations
This extensive list may scare you at first, but you’ll make it work with your time-management plan.
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Choose Your Writing Tools
- A hand-written plan in a notebook/wall-schedule
- A digital plan you can access across devices
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Break Down the Tasks
Breaking it down will make it easier for you to estimate how much time you’ll need to complete it. You’ll also do the preparation part in advance, which is another major time-saver.
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Leave Empty Spaces
This is why we suggest you leave some empty spaces in the schedule:
- An hour or two every second day
- A whole afternoon when possible
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Create Entries
For each task, make sure to define:
- The day you want to do it
- The time you’ll need to finish
- The preparation you have to deal with
- The deadline for completing it
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Prioritize
- Use numbers to set priority tasks
- Mark the tasks you don’t have to finish urgently
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