Time management we have had lots of people giving advice on the time management, we have number of videos on YouTube channel and end no of articles related to time management everywhere but in reality time management is not really part of the management, it's represent your way of life..
Time management can be divided into three major categories.
- Professional / Productive
- Family
- Personal
Its sound strange that I have divided into three major categories because today in every person's life, they are trying to balance between family and a profession but in between they've forget about themselves. in today's competitive Global edge and capitalism, we always found ourselves between professional and personal fronts. in today's scenario many people and families are complaining that the other family members are so busy with earning the money,they cannot meet at the home properly they are always be working late night and always be in a hurry to reaching at the job, they simply cannot provide deserving time to their loved ones.
Time management it is not tool, it's a Lifestyle for a way of life,
Let's take a view on professional time management.
1) Professional /productive time management
In today's global competitive and capitalism peoples often find them in a very troubling situation where they cannot manage their professional time on a job or at business.
Many professionals are are bound to the chairs at the office till the Midnight. People are very cautious and scared about losing the job if they do not complete the task on the same day. Working in a late night the office is not tool for productivity or higher functionality. but sadly in our corporate culture often people are rewarded who are literally known as the owl. they don't have a family or they don't have friends they just came to office to spend the time and it literally spending the time. This kind of people are giving Goosebumps to the dedicated professionals. Working in the night it's doesn't show the high productivity rate. You are the own manager of your work, at office please show the dedication to your work only, people are often pass the time with the gossip and other things, this peoples are not serious about their work. Their work starts after 3 or 5:00 Pm in the evening. They show off to the management how hard working they are, but in my openinan they are hardly working,
How to manage Professional /productive time. This are simple but basic rules.
- Comes office on time, be prepared for your work, evaluate pending work from a day before, write down on paper or maintaining priority of work.
- Do Focus on working, stay out of gossiping.
- Don't spend too much time for discussion during tea break. You are being paid for work not of gossiping,
- Evaluate your role in task I.e if any information & task is pending from colleagues /client let them know immediately in written or send an email.
- Tell your superior about workload. Pending tasks, your involvement.
- Escalation of pending issue to seniors.
- If any more tasks assigned, then ask for priority, i.e Someone has not mentioned their data in proper format, don’t do that, ask seniors to deal with them, often extra tasks comes with label of ‘’ HELP’’.
- Do help yourself & say no to extra no relevant task of Helping Colleagues.
- Do leave on time. Work is infinitem you are not.
2) How to manage Spend Family time.
- Family time is family time, you don’t have to manage it. Just remember you are not the flag bearer of the hard working no family association.
- Remember after Office hours, Reaching at home does makes a difference, moment at You entering a office ‘’ you are in a role of manager’’ but when you step a foot in your home, your kid’s parents Comes at home, no one in the world can replace you.
- Be relax for 10 to 20 minutes, take a deep breath of take a small nap, let no one disturb you, because 10 to 20 minutes nap at home after a day of workload can clear your mind & you will find some peace.
- Ask your kids about the day in school, ask your spouse about the day, no matter how programble our routine is. Let your emotions flow out.
- Don’t be angry on your kids/ spouse if you have Rough day, they don't know about it, let them enjoy your company.
- Many Managers have a bad habit of asking about progress & other Follow up to their juniors at home. Be straight & tell them to don’t disturb at home.
- Do Remember at home, be yourself, don’t bring designation to your home.
3) Personal time.
Personal time is different from your Professional & family time.
- If you are passionate about something that you are dreaming about then, you must have spent time with yourself.
- For Ex. if you are passionate about starting a new business, new venture, or Developing a other set of skills that you are Really passionate about. Then you have to make a little time for yourself.
- Don’t let others influence about your passion, most time people always neglect about your passions, because they don’t share your visions, hence ignore them.
- If you are keen about your passion do some research, find proper tool, guidance, then go for it. Because Fewer People are gifted with extraordinary talents. Spent a time with yourself, you may will know if you have a some talents.
I don’t wanted a lengthy article, hence a kept it short.
Closing Note: To chase your Passion, no time is gone, you can chase it anytime,
