19 Feb | Control and plan your time
One of the factors that we constantly have to deal with, both in our work and private life is: time. Time is one of the most important resources in our lives, one that we are in full possession of, but cannot increase as we please.
We cannot earn it, only lose it or invest it in the best way possible. It is a common belief that time can be managed as we see fit. In reality, time is a limited resource that cannot be managed by us, the only thing we can do, is use it to its fullest.
Using time well means:
• decide which goals to achieve
• set deadlines and respect them.
For a good use of time, it is essential to learn how to control the way in which it is used by following 3 basic strategies:
• planning your day and its activities
• identifying the “time thieves”
• delegating to others.
– Planning your day and its activities: Planning your day means deciding which things must be done, establishing the sequence according to the priorities and assigning the correct amount of time to the activities to be performed.
– Time Thieves: There are factors that take away part of the time available to us. These elements are always present during our day and cannot be eliminated, as they very often depend on external factors, but they can be identified (time thieves), recognized and kept under control.
–Delegating: Delegating consists in entrusting tasks with low added value to others, for example, the more routine and mechanical ones with less decisional content. For delegating to be effective it must be used in a correct and, above all, continuous manner, without expecting the delegatee to do the job as you would have done it, but only assessing his or her final result.