Friday, March 30, 2012

Managing Your Time Better

You will greatly reduce your stress level if you adopt some of the "time management" techniques that stress experts have been discussing recently. Time management requires you to plan everything you do carefully, and really get tough with yourself about putting aside nonessential tasks and doing essential things now.

Interestingly, time management also requires you to set aside some of your ego-involvement in your activities. You have to give up the felling that you can do everything, and all at the same time. You have to stop feeling that you must be at the center of all activities and that no one can replace you.

You should also bear in mind that these priorities are flexible, subject to revision as emergencies, conflicts, and compromise arise. It would be self defeating to use time-management techniques to lock yourself into a pattern that imposes more stress on you. There is no point in clinging rigidly to a set of time priorities that no longer apply to your situation. The idea is for you to learn to manage time, not to let time manage you.