Effective Time Management Strategies

Effective Time

and

Life Management Strategies

The Secret of Achieving More in Less Time

This book will teach you the strategies you will use to free up at least 2 hours of your time for your most important outcomes. You will then become able to increase your performance, take control of your career, and achieve more in less time!

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Nkem Mpamah

Founder and CEO Cognition Global Concepts

www.cognitionglobal.com

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Copyright 2011 

Introduction

There are too many distractions in today’s world of business that few people manage their time effectively. Cell phones, PDA’s, email, RSS News feeds, the Internet, webinars, software updates, the telephone, conference calling, and online bill pay, all created to make our work more productive, can make time much less manageable if not used wisely.

As people get lots of activities crammed into their lives in an attempt to accomplish more; scheduling, managing, and prioritizing tasks has become even more complicated.

There is a broad difference between quantity and quality when it comes to managing the use of our time. Few Small business entrepreneurs give little attention to managing their own time compared to watching the activity of their employee’s time.

Imagine the feeling at the end of the day, knowing you accomplished everything you set out to do and made the best use of your time.

Imagine having a plan for each day that actually worked!

One thing is common with humans and that is the fact that everyone has intentions of what he wants to do, be or have. But here's the thing; people fail, not because they do not have intentions. Majority of people fail because they do not carry out the intentions they have of them to achieve their dreams, goals and aspirations.

The main reason for this lack of success is the lack of mastery of Effective Time and Life Management Strategies.

This book is packaged to teach you the timeless principles and strategies you will use to achieve more in less time when applied.

Effective Time and Life Management Strategies will teach you the techniques that will help you free up time for to achieve your most outcomes, increase performance, take important control of your career, and achieve more in less time!

1. The Secret of Getting More Time

Every day, I hear people say ‚I wish I had more time‛. They run through from task to task and event to event at light speed, trying to find ways to accomplish more.

Few people seem to accomplish far more than others in their lifetime. Benjamin Franklin was a successful author, politician, scientist, philosopher, printer, inventor, activist, and diplomat. His accomplishments are astounding. He was a scientist known for his theories and discoveries and gained the recognition of fellow scientists and intellectuals. He was a political writer and activist, and served as a diplomat during the American Revolution. He was a newspaper editor, self published author. Post-Master General, and started the first American library. His credits go on and on. Benjamin Franklin is even credited for the statement; ‘Time is money.’ How did he find the when many people complained of ‚I don’t have enough time‛?

Time is the greatest resource you will have to accomplish everything in life. Whether you want to eat, play, sleep or carry out major projects; you need time. According to Michael Fortino, an expert in time management; an average person spends 7 years in the bathroom, 6 years eating, 5 years waiting in queue, 4 years cleaning homes, 3 years in meetings, 1 year searching for things, 8 months opening junk mails, 6 months waiting at red lights, 120 hours brushing teeth, 4 minutes per day conversing with spouse, and 30 seconds per day conversing with children.

Time impacts on everything we do both in career, business and profession. Time affects moms and dads, infants and adults and the importance of time and life management is to create effectiveness in the ability of people to cut down the number of time they waste in carrying out unimportant tasks. Effective use of time will help you focus more on the things that matter most you. But sometimes, you discover that your effort to manage your priorities around your time is challenged by several conflicting time wasting activities.

Successful people maximize their time through planning. In just two hours of planning, you could free additional three to four hours of prime time every week.

Effective Time and Life Management is about behavioral change; learning how to spend more time acting instead of reacting. This is the core of this book; to help you become better organized and more productive, through efficient use of your time.

Both individuals and organizations are involved in time and life management crisis. The fact that most organizations and institutions do not have a time management program in place suggests that they do not feel that this is an issue that needs to be addressed.

However, nothing affects the ability of an organization to function and be productive more than the ability of its employees to use organizational skills in order to save time during the business day. Companies must take action in order to encourage their employees to become more skilled in organization and time management. Even if you are an extremely organized person, all of your efforts will be wasted if your employees and the people you are leading are not picking up where you leave off. There are several things you can do as a leader, entrepreneur, parent or manager to encourage your team become more efficient managers of