Most of us need to get tasks done things need to be done in a given time. But time has an inconvenient property. It cannot be enlarged. Time cannot be compressed and you cannot get back time which you lost somewhere.
Some tried multi tasking. Unfortunately multi tasking does not really work. Multiple scientific studies showed that multitasking inevitably leads to a loss of quality. One common solution is time management. It looks like you could manage time. In reality you cannot manage time, you can just organize yourself better. The definition of time management is "Time management is the act or process of planning and exercising conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency or productivity. Time management may be aided by a range of skills, tools, and techniques used to manage time when accomplishing specific tasks, projects and goals complying with a due date. This set encompasses a wide scope of activities". It can be traced back to three fundamental strategies.
The first is called Eisenhower principle. Dwight D. Eisenhower was a famous US president. He commanded 2 million soldiers and was forced to find a better way to control them. He then came up with the Eisenhower method. The method is really easy. For every task you ask: is it important? Has it to be done immediately? You can get only four possible answers: If it is not important and not urgent it is a time waster and should not be done. If it is urgent but not important you should spent as little time as possible on it. If they are urgent and important you should do them. Most of your time should be spent on the urgent and important tasks.
The next fundamental principle is called "slicing the elephant". It just means to divide a complex task into several smaller tasks which you can manage one at a time. The third fundamental strategy is called "delegation". That means getting it done through someone else. Based on these three fundamental principles, an avalanche of literature was created: Books, seminars, webinars, trainings, coachings.
Someone once called the whole time management industry "trading hopes". Most of us tried in vain This is because of a fundamental flaw of time management: It means organization and discipline. If it works, your life is governed by order, planning, discipline Do you really want that? If not, get familiar with inner process coaching.
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