Time management

Time management

For a person to succeed every where in everything he/she is doing, one should be able to manage his/her time correctly. Most people who are successful the first thing that they achieved before achieving others is how to manage their time. If one do not manage his/her time correctly he/she will never achieve.

What do we mean by time management: it simply means using your time correctly, knowing what you are going to do at this time and how long it is going to take. It also means respecting of time, knowing how much time cost. When we say someone has time management it means the person know how to use time.

For one to be able to manage his/her time, one should have a time table. This time table is for him/her to list all his/her activities. The person should be strict to his/herself, before doing everything check your time table, do not ever do something that is not there in your time table. In the past issue of student guide we spoke about reading skills, for you to be able to have reading skills you must plan how you are going to do it and the same principle still applies to this one of time management.

Let us use the method we used in the previous issue of Student Guide:
24 hr per day = 07 hr for sleep + 06 hr for classes + 04 hr for studying + 06/30 for refreshments + 30min for exercising.

The formula above shows you how much time you are going to use for what and it is up to you now to write a time table to divide again the times on what would you doing at the first hour of my study time, how will I divide my refreshment time.
Let us come to the conclusion, have a time table and include all activities on it because we do not want to do something that is not on the time table. Every time and time you will have to check it and after few days you will be used to it and you will again be used to use your time effectively. Try it and you will see how important time management it is.

Annette Nellen, a Professor in the Department of Accounting & Finance in College of Business San José State University suggested Seven Suggestions for Effectively Managing Your Time

1. Be Organized
2. Plan Ahead (Schedule it and it will happen!)
3. Prioritize Your Tasks
4. Avoid Overload
5. Practice Effective Study Techniques
6. Be Able to be Flexible
7. Have a Vision (why are you doing all of this?)

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