Time Management

Beat Work Overload. Increase Your Effectiveness. Achieve Much More.

This section of Mind Tools teaches you personal time management skills. These are the simple, practical techniques that have helped the leading people in business, sport and public service reach the pinnacles of their careers.

The skills we explain help you become highly effective, by showing you how to identify and focus on the activities that give you the greatest returns. Investing in these time management activities will actually save you time, helping you work smarter, not harder. What's more, these same techniques help you beat work overload – a key source of stress.

You'll finish by learning about goal setting, a vitally important skill for deciding what you want to achieve with your life.

Enjoy the articles!

• Introduction to Time Management

• How Good is Your Time Management? - Discover time management tools that can help you

• Beating Procrastination – Manage your time. Get it all done.

• Activity Logs – Know where your time goes
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• Prioritized To Do Lists – Taking control of your time
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• Action Programs – Becoming exceptionally well organized
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• Prioritization – Making best use of your time and resources
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• Effective Scheduling – Bringing your workload under control
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• Personal Goal Setting – Planning to live your life your way
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• Locke's Goal Setting Theory – Understanding SMART goal setting

• The Golden Rules of Goal Setting – Five rules to set yourself up for success

• Backward Goal Setting – Using backward planning to set goals
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• In Flow – Maximizing productivity through improved focus
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• Leverage – Achieve much more with the same effort