Have you ever said? “I just don’t have the time.” It takes time to develop eating plans, cooking healthy meals, be physically active, housework, do your 9-5pm job and spend time with the family. “I just don’t have the time” is probably the most common excuse people give to avoid taking good care of themselves.
Your time demands represent choices and priorities you have made and continue to make daily.
No one has any more time than you do. Time management is the variable factor within all of us.
The objectives of time management are to reduce wasted time, increase time spent on enjoyable and healthy activities and ultimately improve your wellbeing.
Time management can help you answer these questions:
Your time demands represent choices and priorities you have made and continue to make daily.
No one has any more time than you do. Time management is the variable factor within all of us.
The objectives of time management are to reduce wasted time, increase time spent on enjoyable and healthy activities and ultimately improve your wellbeing.
Time management can help you answer these questions:
- How do I use my time?
- What are my major time commitments?
- Are there interruptions, “time wasters” or procrastination?
- Are there activities that could be removed from your schedule or shortened?
- Is my life in balance with work, relationships, self-care and weight management?
Ideas for Managing Time:
- Be responsible: First and most importantly, take responsibility for how you spend your time.
- Be consistent/ realistic: Figure out your top priorities in life. Keep a small written daily log of how your time is used for one week, in 15 or 30-minute intervals. After a typical week, compare your time with your prioritised list to determine whether they are consistent. Also ask yourself the question, “ will I be doing this in 6 months time”?
- Be less of a perfectionist: Perfectionists lose a lot of time by compulsively over-doing many tasks that could require much less time for an acceptable outcome.
- Get organised: How much time do you lose each week due to poor organisation? Reorganising or developing a system for you at home and work could save many hours of wasted time down the road.
- Make a list: At the beginning of each day, take five to ten minutes to make a list of what you want to accomplish that day. Prioritise the list by designating items that are crucial for that day versus those that could wait. To avoid procrastinating, divide them up into smaller segments that are more quickly and easily accomplished.
- Use an organiser or diary: There are many portable systems available that will help you plan your day, schedule your time and prioritise “to do” lists.
- Negotiate and delegate: What tasks do you currently do that someone else could handle? Are you uncomfortable asking for help?
- Without making time for exercise, you get into a dangerous place where you sacrifice the very activity that keeps you healthy. Eg. For those who have limited control over the rest of their day because of work hours and after-work commitments, exercise may be best scheduled in the mornings.
Time management will help you free up wasted or over committed time. Also ensure to schedule in leisure time or non food rewards for achieving your goals.
“Enjoy your leisure time. Take time to relax, do something that gives you a chance to unwind and feel at ease.”
“Enjoy your leisure time. Take time to relax, do something that gives you a chance to unwind and feel at ease.”
Managing time is a great way to balance life and work. This way you can fulfill each role between work and life. One good way to manage time is to fight procrastination this way you can get more things done. There are also distractions that will make you unproductive. I recently read that the effective way to ignore distractions is an "airplane mode". It is a way where you need to turn off all things that can distract you like a mobile phones. This way you can’t receive any message, email or call. Another is by creating a to-do list which helps you to be more aware of your tasks. You need also to organize tasks so that you will know what tasks are needed to be done first. In order to limit wasted time and stay focus on tasks. You can also set an estimated amount of time when working on each task. Managing time won’t be very effective without discipline.
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