A Personal Time-Management Self-Assessment [Ian's Messy Desk]

Posted in Productivity

As you hone and improve your productivity skills and systems, it’s a good idea to pause from time to time and assess how well you are implementing your time-management strategies.

Ask yourself the following questions:

• How much control do you have over the use of your time?
• How severely are you locked in to demands and deadlines?
• Do you know how to say no when an opportunity presents itself?
• Within the time you control, are you doing only necessary and appropriate tasks?
• Are you completing those tasks in the most efficient way?
• Do you know your energy cycle?
• Do you make best use of peak energy periods?
• Do you set priorities?
• Do you consistently handle your most important tasks first?

Have you found areas in the above, which could use improvement?

Now, review the four statements below and come up with four ways you can address the issues.

1. I can make better use of my time by:
2. The things standing between me and effective time management are:
3. If I found five hours a week, here is how I would use them:
4. These tasks take up a lot of my time, but don’t seem to contribute to my goals and objectives:

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Original post here: Ian McKenzie

23 April 2008 | Time Management | Comments