Learn more about timemanagement with this collection
How to set achievable goals
How to manage time for personal and professional life
How to avoid distractions
You often miscalculate how long it will take to do something to the point of missing deadlines and having to reschedule.
Solution: Schedule more time than you expect to take to finish a task, learn how to work faster and to estimate time more accurately. Reviewing past assignments duration will give you good time estimates for future reference.
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The person who always says “yes” to others and has trouble establishing boundaries. They often put other’s priorities ahead of their own and find themselves short of time and overwhelmed.
Solution: Stop saying “yes.” Identify your priorities at hom...
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If you like being efficient and have no problem tackling new problems or emergencies but feel like everything is an emergency, then you’re a firefighter personality.
Solution: To avoid the stress of treating everything like a crisis, identify and p...
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It may be tempting to blame others when we feel crunched for time. The reality is that how we spend or waste time is of our own choosing.
Learning how to manage your time takes time. Tracking your time, understanding your time management style, developing new habits and lots of trial...
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You are indecisive and often deals with things in the nick of time. But procrastination has a physical and social toll as your body and your coworkers get stressed over it.
Solution: Reserve time for work and start in small chunks. After starting, it’s eas...
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Multitaskers believe they can juggle multiple things at once. But in reality trying to multitask leads to incomplete tasks, mistakes, and less accomplishments.
Solution: Single-tasking. Make sure that you give each task your full attention before m...
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You are obsessed with your idea of perfection and end up spending way too much time on a specific task. This leads to feelings of being overwhelmed, missed deadlines and delaying other priorities.
Solution: Make sure you have achievable standards that don’t get in the way. ...
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You routinely fail to complete tasks because you underestimate the time necessary to finish them.
What to do: Assume as a rule that things will take longer than you expect. Start earlier than you think you need to in order to have a buffer for eventualities. Also...
Most of us tend to underestimate how long projects and tasks will take us to finish.
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The planning fallacy is the likelihood to underestimate the time it will take to finish a future task despite knowing that similar projects have taken longer in the past. For example, writers underestimate how long it will take to complete a novel; product managers miscalcula...
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