| Something that I'd like to talk to you about today is | | | | the standard reward system. |
| how you can reduce the stress in your life by | | | | Basically, you just set rewards for yourself. So, instead |
| improving your ability to effectively manage your time | | | | of coming home from work and plopping down in front |
| and personal resources. | | | | of the television, say that you have to get X amount |
| This is something that I've had trouble with in the past | | | | of stuff you need to do done before you can watch |
| (and still do occasionally), so I feel a strong empathy | | | | any TV. |
| with people who are suffering from the same sort of | | | | Pretty simple concept, right? |
| problems. | | | | One other thing that people with poor time |
| Time management problems typically actually are just | | | | management skills typically struggle with is estimating |
| a symptom of a bigger problem, lack of motivation. | | | | how long it will take them to do what they need to do. |
| The key to learning to use your time effectively is to | | | | You can schedule out your day to a T, but if you've |
| learn to motivate yourself effectively. | | | | incorrectly estimated how long things will take, then |
| Think about it, do you think that you would have any | | | | your schedule becomes useless. |
| trouble getting things done on time or in a reasonable | | | | Honestly, this isn't really something that can be taught, |
| amount of time if you could snap your fingers and be | | | | it's just something that takes practice. |
| motivated to do what you need to do? | | | | One tip to sort of get you going though is to make a |
| No, of course not...OK, that sort of didn't make | | | | point of allowing MORE time than you think you should. |
| sense...What I'm saying is that once you can motivate | | | | It's rarely a problem to over estimate how long |
| yourself the problems that typically result in poor time | | | | something will take, but under estimating is a huge |
| management, like procrastination, will sort of fix | | | | inconvenience. So, what do we do? We purposefully |
| themselves. | | | | allow more time than we would naturally or intuitively |
| So, then the question becomes...How do we learn to | | | | allow. |
| effectively motivate ourselves? | | | | Give these tips a try, and see if you don't start noticing |
| Well, one thing that's been extremely effective, both | | | | an improvement in your time management skills. |
| with myself and other people I've talked with, has been | | | | |