Time is a precious commodity and if yours is getting away from you, you are in need of the self help practice known as time management. It is too easy for life’s interruptions to get the best of you and make you a slave to everyone else’s agenda.

Spending time wisely naturally plays a big role in the level of success a person can achieve. You can read all the self help literature you want but without some sort of plan for your day, your day will simply “happen” to you. You will not accomplish much and you will miss out on new opportunities because you will be in such a constant state of being behind, that you will be out of time for anything else.

Start out by planning your day ahead of time. The key is to schedule a routine time either first thing in the morning or sometime the night before, and stick with it. Make note of what needs to be done for that day. Set new goals and review those previously set.

Set times to start and finish your projects so that one task doesn’t hijack your whole day. Divide big tasks into a series of smaller ones to be completed in increments.

Lastly, take your bigger projects and divide them into smaller more manageable tasks. They will get done quicker because you won’t dread them so much, and your other, smaller tasks will not suffer because of it.

Planning may be key, but acceptance is important too, for even the best made plans can be thwarted by unexpected tasks. Realize that it is okay, deal with the situation and move on. It is so easy to put a small task aside to be completed later, not realizing the pile up you will soon be facing.

They usually only take a minute so handle them and move on. You will feel better, be more productive and suffer less stress. Much of your day can also be eaten up by over thinking the start of a new project.

More time is often spent avoiding it than working on it. It has to get done no matter how much you wish it didn’t. So decide whether you are going to work on it now or later, then move on and continue managing your day.

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