Managing Your Time to Make Each Day Count! 7 Tips for You –By Tobiloba Dixon

You have missed your priorities Tobi, you must face the music!! So I was told once, I was unable to meet the deadline of my project as an undergraduate student and wasn’t running the affairs of my departmental students’ association so well, since I was the president. While sitting in my dormitory alone I sometimes told myself that it was because I had too much on my table, all that’s total crap, truth be told is I wasn’t managing my time well!

So out of love, let me share a few things with you.

1. Creating an “all and sundry list” of your activities can help immensely as this can help you identify and avoid distractions later. This list can be kept in page one of your journal as it must always be visible otherwise it gets buried and forgotten overtime and must continuously be updated since most activities have deadlines and can lapse. This bring us to point two.
2. Always separate and understand what priority is, that which is urgent, something that recurs And fun or relaxation activities. By grouping different activities into these four categories it becomes clear at any time which activity must take precedence. A smart fellow will never neglect his health. Please note that You can only achieve this by ticking the boxes of activities under the last category.
3. Being open and humane and attempting not to be perfect is a good approach to cutting back on secret desires that can be disastrous and focusing on the important stuffs.
4. Cut down meeting time and avoiding meetings that are likely to give zero value. This is certainly not for everybody but those concerned will get the point. Have reasonable representatives for meetings too and get a quick summary in 15 minutes on what would have cost you 3 hours.
5. Try doing jobs immediately they fall due, say no to procrastination at all cost! Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder, Mason Cooley. Continuous procrastination always leads to beautiful failure, so why not avoid this? Get to work continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
6. Avoid people who radiate bad energy, bad energy can reduce your productivity level and ultimately have the likelihood of destroying your entire project. People who for stupid reasons get you upset or discourages you or makes you feel unworthy or gives you zero support should be avoided, you will thank me later for this.
7. At last, delegate those activities that can be performed by someone else and which will save you huge time. Or determine a unit worth of your time and see if it is better to pay someone to do your laundry or similar stuff while you use that time to tick little boxes off your to do list. This is a great strategy, and this is perhaps a good reason why a small business owner hires any staff.

And never forget to always create time for personal growth. Because things change, people evolve.

Let’s stop here for today.

See you in the abode of happiness!

….Dixon Tobiloba.