Time Waster, Time Wasters, Time Management Wasters, Time Management Time Wasters

Time Wasters

	While practicing time management, first eliminate time wasters. For eliminating time wasters, you have to identify these. Though time wasters may differ from person to person, following time wasters are more common: Unorderly methods of working: unorderly methods of working consume more time to produce a result than orderly methods of working to produce the same type of result. This is true for office as well as for home. Failure to set priorities: lack of priorities in performing various activities tends to waste lot of time on trifle matters leaving aside more important matters. Lack 0f scheduling: with lack of scheduling and improper scheduling, people get confused about what and when activities should be performed.

	Attempting to do so many things at a time: this practice becomes a self-made time waster as people cannot concentrate on any activity. Too many meetings: having too many meetings is the basic characteristic of many organization and persons. Many such meetings take place just to meet together and not to produce result of any importance. Family tension: family tension takes lot of time to get it resolved. Unscheduled visitors: such visitors may knock any one’s door at any time with or without purpose. Gossip: gossip is the perhaps the biggest time waster. Many persons engage themselves in gossip with their friends and colleagues and waste their time unnecessarily. These are the major time wasters. You can identify your time wasters based on your experience. After identifying these time wasters, take steps to eliminate these. There are some time wasters on which you may not have full control to eliminate these in totality like meetings, unscheduled visitors, etc., but you can eliminate their impact to least possible level. In the case of other time wasters, you can eliminate these in totality. For eliminating time wasters and minimizing their impact, you can take the following steps: Put every thing in order: Follow the principle: there must be a place for every thing and everything must be at its place. Set priorities for activities: priorities to various activities should be based on their relative contribution to your goal achievement. Prepare schedule: prepare schedule every day to perform activities in a day and stick to this schedule. Concentrate on one activity at a time: concentrate on one activity at a time. When it is finished, start another activity. Avoid unnecessary meetings: have meetings only to solve a problem which cannot be solved by a single person alone. Manage unscheduled visitors: to the extent possible, fix a time in advance to meet the visitors and inform them accordingly. Still if a visitor comes, discuss the issue in brief. If he is likely to take more time to have detailed discussion, schedule such a discussion when you are relatively free. Create congenial environment: create congenial environment at your home and office so as to reduce the occurrence of tension. Avoid gossip: avoid gossip at any cost. It is not only a time waster, it creates many problems. Someone has said; whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. When you are able to eliminate time wasters, you will experience that you have lot of time. Use this lot of time in performing these activities which are relevant to your goal achievement. Previous Page \| Next Page
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