3 Simple Strategies for Time Management


First of all, you can’t manage time. Time simply “marches on.” But you can manage your activity, your productivity. Here are 3 Simple Strategies for managing your productivity.

1. Write down everything.

As a mentor of mine says, “If it’s not written down, it doesn’t exist.” Simply capture everything that comes to you – ideas, projects, to-dos, things to remember like phone numbers. Schedule some time on a regular basis, daily or weekly, to sort that information into projects, to-do lists, or reference files.

2. Make decisions quickly.

Decide to do it, delegate it, delay it, or dump it.

3. Do one thing at a time.

Multitasking is a myth. It doesn’t work. Focus on accomplishing one thing at a time. Any project, no matter how big, is a series of individual tasks, and individual tasks can even be broken down into individual actions. Remember – How do you eat an elephant? ……1 bite at a time.

Keep things simple and get things done!

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. ~Henry David Thoreau