| Good you have responded to that question. I am a university teacher and students often ask this question too: How can I manage my time effectively and efficiently? How to budget time? Time management is not just a skill, as you have said, it is a mentality that successful people have. They know how to allocate time and how to enjoy life or those little sweet moments in life. Let me try (I am 班门弄斧－ teaching your grandmother how to suck eggs, for some reason I don't like this particular phrase although in my hometown there are people who suck eggs when they are sick with a cold or bronchitis- kidding!).
Good time management starts with good planning. You got to keep a planbook and write down what you have done or what you are going to do. Keep some time for yourself too - some "me" time. Think about things that have happened.... As the foreign "devils" say, slow down and smell the roses. I didn't believe there was any good in keeping a planbook last year and I tried it this year and it worked for me beautifully. I can finish the things I have to do and still have some time for my family, blogging and all that. Before that I was a very disorganized person to a point where I can be called a "procratinator". What do you do with your planbook? Well you need to do it on a daily basis. You don't fish for 3 days and dry the fish nets for 2 days, right? The most difficult thing with plans is it is hard to do the things that you are supposed to do every day. You would be a perfect person if you could do that. But make sure you do it most of the time. There are times when we should 'steal' some little moments and have some laughters. I cannot do that every day but I try to stick to the original plan, let's say, 80% of the time. As Jianshuo has said, we all need to leave some time for self-reflections. Time runs fast but as long as we invest our energy in the things we are interested in, there is always some time left for ourselves. We all have a public self and a private self. It is tiring to present your public self all the time when you work so we got to go back to be our old selves for some time at least. I don't know what I have said would make any sense to you but this is a place to discuss things, right? |
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