are you constantly finding yourself
behind at work or school do you arrive
at the end of the day and realize you've
accomplished nothing on your to-do list
well odds are you're not very good at
time management and that is not doing
your psychological health any favors in
fact a study published in work and
stress found that workers who didn't
productively manage their time felt less
in control of their lives here's the
good news you can get better paying
attention to how you spend your time
we'll help you manage it more
effectively and we're gonna help you
learn how to do just that today on
well-cast we're gonna get you in control
of your day with our rack method
recording analyzing and changing three
easy steps - great time management pause
and print a copy of our handy well cast
day planner finish printing let's dive
in step 1 recording when you wake up
tomorrow note the time in your day
planner as the day progresses write down
everything that you do yes we mean
everything the 10 minutes you spent
getting dressed a half day of productive
work the hours you spent between social
networking sites we mean it all keep
this up from the time you wake up until
you go to sleep step 2 analyzing at the
end of the day go through the schedule
and highlight any chunks of time that
you don't feel were used productively
pick out your 5 biggest time wasters in
your day be honest with yourself you
spent a half an hour by the coffee
machine talking to your coworker you
spent an hour on Facebook and you stared
into space for 20 minutes come on you
get the picture especially focus on the
time wasters at work why a study
published by the British Medical Journal
says that workplace stress is minimised
by effective time management it also
says that workplace stress bleeds over
into home life and undermines a relaxed
life at home here's the ugly part add up
all the time you wasted how much
productive time did you blow on
activities that got you no results step
3 changing now it's time to come up with
a way to get that time back here are
three ways to change your time wasting
habits and become a better time manager
prioritize to do
lists are a really effective way to
manage your time in your priorities
limit the number of tasks you have on
this list to five and assign rankings to
them in order of importance declutter
not only is decluttering great for your
health but you won't waste time digging
around piles of stuff to find that one
piece of paper that you really need
check out our well cast on clutter for
some helpful tips on lightening your
load schedule Hey
we all try to kill two birds with one
stone but odds are multitasking will
actually just stress you out and delay
you even more instead set aside blocks
of time for individual activities for
each activity set start and stop points
this way your day is cleanly segmented
then stick to this schedule try going
one week using these tips to reduce your
wasted time at the end of a week go
figure out where you've improved your
time management skills and how much time
you've saved let's recap today you
learned how to manage your time better
by using our well-cast rack method you
recorded analyze and hopefully changed
how you use your time and you did this
by learning how to prioritize your most
important tasks declutter your workspace
to save you time and you learned how to
build yourself an effective schedule to
block out your day hey how did rack work
for you we want to hear how much time
you were wasting and how much you're
saving now tweet us at watch webcast
email us at watch webcast at gmail.com
or leave a comment down below we'll see
you next time
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