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Design your life like a choice architect:

• Encourage smarter decisions you want to do by making them more accessible.
• Add friction to habits you want to quit, making them less accessible, or remove the option to perform them completely.

The way to improve your Time Management skills requires us to figure out where to focus. This can be done by:

• Getting an objective self-assessment done by your peers or boss, or establishing a baseline behavior to measure your performance against.
• Understanding that it is your skills, not your personality or preferences that can be developed to provide the best results.
• Identifying the key skill(s) that you need to prioritize, and avoiding spreading yourself too thin.

The key factor to consider when developing awareness skills is that effectiveness (doing things well) is as important as efficiency (doing things fast).

• Find which time of the day is your 'peak performance time.
• Treat time as money, a limited resource, and create a 'time budget' for your to-do list.
• Measure and evaluate the projected time vs the actual time taken.
• Consider which of the tasks create follow-up tasks that take up your time later.
• Take into consideration the 'opportunity cost' of spending time in an activity.