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Time management wasters
Learn how to get rid of your time management wasters
I am an ordinary man - A middle class high tech manager with a good salary, have decided to get rid of my time management wasters. I have found out that I have too much time management wasters.
Take a look at the findings of a long a research I have executed in order to find the main time management in my life and the way to get rid of them. Use these tips :
1. Turn your email off. Emails must be one of my main time management wasters.It may be hard to break away from your constant communication with the world, but if you check email twice per day, you can minimize dramatically your time management wasters. Find specific time frames during the day that you will devote to email and stick to your schedule.
2. Putting Things In Their Place. "A place for everything and everything in its place" – act by this moto and have less time management wasters. When you are finished with a piece of paper, a brochure or any other document - file it. What usually happens is that you finish using a piece of paper, temporarily put it in a stack and then have to spend two hours cleaning up after yourself once a week – one of the most annoying time management wasters
3. Use free To Do lists every day. A tip anyone should use to avoid time management wasters : At the end of each day, make a free to do list of items to complete the following day. This will help you get rid of time management wasters the next day.
3. Filter your calls. Phone calls are one of the biggest time management wasters. These days most people have voice mail or an answering machine. Unless you're expecting a call, let the machine get it. Just as with your email schedule, you can set aside time during the day to return calls and avoid time management wasters.
Use these advices to get rid of your time management wasters. Try one for a week and see how the time management wasters vanish.
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