![]() ![]() Reading funny emails or checking Facebook is neither urgent nor important. You may also inconvenience others such as teachers who are waiting with your children for you to arrive. If you are not there at the right time, they will be waiting in the playground or the classroom, worrying about where you are. Picking your children up from school is both urgent and important. If you leave it too long, however, it may become urgent because you may get toothache. If you don’t, you may get gum disease, or other problems. Going to the dentist regularly is important (or so we’re told). It may also, however, be an automated voice telling you that you may be eligible for compensation for having been mis-sold insurance. If you don’t do it, the caller will ring off, and you won’t know why they called-and it might be important. 'Important' tasks matter, and not doing them may have serious consequences for you or others.Īnswering the phone is urgent. ‘ Urgent’ tasks demand your immediate attention, but whether you actually give them that attention may or may not matter. They can do this because they understand the difference between urgent and important. They are also, however, better at prioritising, and working out what really needs doing-and then discarding the other things. In other words, people who are good at time management are good at getting on and doing things. Time management is defined as using your time productively and efficiently-but what about when you are working as productively as possible, and you still can’t get everything done? It may be better to think about time management as a combination of working productively and prioritising your time. Time management skills are essential because few, if any, of us ever have enough time to do everything that is asked of us, or that we want to do. ![]() This page explains some of the principles behind good time management. It sounds simple, but it is much harder in practice. You could also think of it as the art of having time to do everything that you need, without feeling stressed about it. Time management is the ability to use your time productively and efficiently. It’s much more likely that they are using their time more effectively: in other words, showing good time management skills. It cannot just be that some people have less to do. Have you ever wondered how it is that some people seem to have enough time to do everything that they want to, whereas others are always rushing from task to task, and never seem to finish anything?
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