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3. Scheduling Tasks Ineffectively
A never-ending circle of tasks may feel devastating, cause stress, depression and burnout.
Time management tips:
- Eat the frog. Do the most important or challenging task first thing in the morning.
- Try Ivy Lee Method. Create six-item lists for each day sorted by priority. Complete items one by one and move unfinished tasks to the top of the next day's list.
- Narrow down your list of tasks. Prioritize activities that will deliver the best returns.
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20. Not Taking Technology Along
On the one hand, an increasingly digitalized lifestyle shortens our attention span and concentration abilities that can be compared to those of a goldfish.
On the other hand, modern tools can save you hours if used wisely.
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18. Not Conserving Your Brain Power
Our average working memory capacity is limited to three to five items. Anything that exceeds these limits has a high chance of falling out of our brains.
Time management tips:
- Use externa...
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16. Avoiding Automation
Regardless of our occupations, many aspects of our jobs are repetitive and open to automation.
Time management tips:
- Improve routine tasks. Review your routine activities regularly and brainstorm ideas of how you could tackle them even more effec...
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7. Lack of Regular Time Management Review
Review not only your daily and weekly performance but look into monthly and half-year reports to get a birds-eye view of your efforts.
Time management tips:
- Avoid
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8. Not Being Able to Cope With Stress
Persistent exposure to stress can put your health and performance at risk.
Time management tips:
- Identify your stressors. Practice journaling, search for patterns and look into ways to cope with stress.
- Develop healthy responses t...
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14. Not Managing Distractions
Emails, notifications, social media, paper clutter, low-priority tasks - learn how to manage these effectively.
Time management tips:
- Define your boundaries. Make time for phone calls and emails, use chat statuses to communicate when you are ava...
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1. Being a Perfectionist
Perfectionists strive to deliver high-quality work, but their high standards cause stress, burnout and anxiety in the long run.
Time management tips:
- Get comfortable with imperfection. Ask yourself: "Am I being productive? Can I get more results ...
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4. Lack of Vision
Without vision, you can't create the results you want and feel joy and excitement to keep on going.
Time management tips:
- Get a bird’s eye view. Think of how your tasks at hand contribute to your personal or professional goals. Maintain your focu...
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6. Not Tracking Time
Time tracking reveals unexpected trends and insights and ecourages a more strategic approach to time management.
Time management tips:
- Pick a time tracking tool: a timesheet app, a desktop time tracker, a mobile app, a
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11. Being Bad at Estimating Time
Most of us tend to underestimate how long projects and tasks will take us to finish.
Time management tips:
- Calculate your fudge ratio. Build a list ...
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15. Doing Routines Instead of Habits
Habits are routines that you do with little or no conscious thought, also meaning little energy investments.
Time management tips:
- Build the habit loop. Choose a trigger, execute the routine and do something enjoyable afterward. Let’s say at 10 a...
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17. Not Breaking Down Big Projects
Big projects look overwhelming and often lead to stress and procrastination.
Time management tips:
- Break it down. Whenever you start a new task, break it down into steps that you can complete in 20–30 minutes, even if they look trivial.
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13. Not Mastering Your Skills & Tools
Without mastering hard and soft skills, no amount of time management advice can make you grow faster and achieve more.
Time management tips:
- Hone your professional skills. Review your skills regularly, think of how you could improve them, what ad...
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2. Not Being Able to Concentrate & Maintain Focus
It happens to the best us when our minds are wandering, making us unable to concentrate.
Time management tips:
- Use peak performance time. Use the most productive parts of the day to do the most demanding tasks.
- Take breaks -
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5. Never Thinking About Tomorrow
Develop strategical thinking and set short-term goals to achieve extraordinary results.
Time management tips:
- Develop awareness. Think about how your time and efforts you invested today will contribute to your tomorrow’s reality and bring you clo...
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9. Not Practicing Attention Management
Attention management - the ability to recognize your brain state and consciously shift yourself into the state that will serve you best at the moment.
Time management tips:
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10. Doing Everything On Your Own
We all have 24 hours in a day and limited energy capacities as human beings.
Time management tips:
- Outsource. Weigh the opportunity costs, take some load off your shoulders and focus on hign-impact activities.
- Automate your ro...
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12. Being Busy Instead of Effective
Busy time doesn’t bring you closer to your goals, making you feel anxious and unsettled - maximize the productive time.
Time management tips:
- Apply the Pareto principle. Focus o...
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19. Being Unmotivated
Time management tips:
- Follow the Goal-Setting Theory: set specific, difficult and challenging goals.
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