Time management is the process of organizing and planning how to divide your time between specific activities. Good time management enables you to work smarter, that you get more work done in a day time. Failing to manage your time damages your effectiveness and causes stress. Here you will learn common time management mistakes.

For many people, it seems that there’s just never enough time in the day to get everything done.

When you know how to manage your time you gain control of what you achieve.

Common Time management mistakes

Know the common mistakes and improve the way that you use your time.

#1 Failing to prioritize

It’s hard to know how to prioritize, especially when you’re facing an urgent tasks situation. However, it’s essential to learn how to prioritize tasks effectively if you want to manage your time better.

You’ll manage your time much better if you know the difference between high-priority & high-yield activities.

#2 Starting late

Take a look at your daily schedule and figure out when your day should begin. If you do not start your day on-time as defined, all your efforts will yield less you will feel rushed throughout the day. Remember that the great leaders start their day on-time.

#3 Failing to manage distractions

Distractions prevent us from achieving our work flow. Distractions can come from emails, phone calls, social media, videos and chats, etc.

#4 Procrastinations

When you procrastinate, you feel guilty that you haven’t started the activity, you come to dread doing the task and eventually, everything catches up with you when you fail to complete the work on time.

#5 Being busy

You are busy because of your engagement on high-value task (or) because of doing bundle of low-priority work, that not only consumes your energy and time, but also have little impact on final outcome.

Being busy is not same as being effective. Keep yourself engaged in a balanced work.

#6 Being a perfectionist

Remember the importance of “learn from mistakes”. Every time you enter into new projects or task, you will learn something new

Your time is limited and if you don’t want to end up with huge delays, you have to sometimes be satisfied with good work and don’t let to grow the enemy i.e., Perfect.

#7 Avoiding breaks

It’s difficult for anyone to focus and produce really high-quality work without giving their mind some time to rest and boost it using the intervals.

Go for a quick walk, cup of coffee, or simply do nothing and relax. This should help you boost your energy and gain more peaceful mind for the work.

#8 Multitasking

Multitasking is good quality to have, but you need to be well organized and maintain a constant level of concentration, creativity, and commitment.

Doing single task efficiently is better than doing many tasks inefficiently.  Whenever the circumstances permit, avoid multitasking and focus on one task at a time. This will help you produce high-quality work and give you a sense of completion.

#9 Not practicing to-do list

How productive we are, it changes person to person, and situation to situation. Sometime you forgotten to do an important work that probably due to ineffectively organizing the work. Keep to-do list based on prioritize, this will bring transparency and visual guidance to effectively manage your time.

#10 Underestimate the time

It is equally important to properly estimate the time and resource required to complete any given tasks. Underestimating the time will lead to losses. Subsequently, it creates the queue of tasks as pending/backlog.

One of the most effective ways of improving your productivity is to recognize and minimize your time management mistakes.

When you take the time to overcome these mistakes, it will make a positive impact in your productivity. Your mind gets peace and you experience less stress.

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