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Introduction and Overview
Managing Your Time.
Time management and self-management are synonymous. If our time is out of control, it means that we are out of control.
Forming habits that work for you is key to good time management. Since habits are learned behavior, they can be changed. We will discuss the importance of your attitude toward change and how you can take the first step to improve in key areas that relate to your job.
Once you have identified what is important to achieving your personal and career goals, you will set priorities and discuss ways to manage those obstacles that may get in your way.
Learning Objectives.
After completing this module, you will be able to:
• Recognize the importance of an individual’s attitude and self-discipline in making time management changes
• Identify new time management habits that have an impact on your position
• Identify basic criteria for writing goals
• Distinguish between important vs. urgent priorities
• Develop an action plan for self management
2. Your Attitudes About Time
The purpose of this section is to recognize the importance of self-discipline in time management.
How long do you think it could take to replace poor time management habits?
Key points:
• Many time management experts tell us that work-related habits can successfully be changed in three days to three weeks.
• If we consistently practice our new time mastery behavior for three weeks, it will in all probability become our predominant response behavior.
• Time management experts say that to change long-established habits, we must want to change.
Desire is the key to success or failure in changing or improving any behavior, including our time management habits.
New Habit, which lists the following points:
• Identify old habit
• Define new habit
• Begin strongly
• Never deviate
• Ask for help
• Identify the habit you want to change.
• The more we know about what we do, when we do it, and why we do it, the easier it will be to identify habits that are detrimental.
• Carefully define the new habit you wish to develop.
• You will use the first section of your action plan to describe the new habit you plan to adopt.
• Example: In the first category, Attitudes, you may choose to develop the attitude of having more self-discipline.
This may mean that the new habit you want to develop is simply doing what you know you should do, regardless of whether or not you feel like doing it.
You can list this habit in the first section of the Action Plan under the heading, “The New Habit I Want to Develop.”
Under “Steps I Will Take to Be Sure I Begin Strongly,” you may state that you will stop thinking about it and simply do it.
You may create a sign that reads like the popular Nike advertisement, “Just do it!”
This will help you visualize yourself in the new role.
• Begin the new behavior as strongly as possible.
• If you have your own work space, you might consider setting up routines to go with your habit, put up signs in your cubicle or office to remind yourself and/or do what you can to foster the new habit each day.
• Never deviate from the behavior until the new habit is firmly established.
• Resist temptations to do things the old way.
• Know that every time we deviate from the new habit, we must start over again and the more times we start over, the harder it is to change.
• This is proven by the number of times people try to lose weight or quit smoking.
• Ask other people to help you change.
• New habits are much easier to master if you build a strong support team around you.
• Think about who might be able to help you.
• This is why there is space on the Action Plan to list people you can ask to help you:
How could they help you best?
What will you ask them to do?
Answer any questions and make the point that we will revisit the action plans each time we discuss a time management category.
Create a wall chart with two columns. The column on the left will read, “Can’t Control,” and the column on the right will read, “Can Control.”
Ask the following question and record responses on the wall chart.
What are the things in your environment or life that you can’t control, no matter what you do?
Possible responses:
• Weather
• Other’s feelings
• Traffic
• Other’s health
• Passage of time
Ask the following question and record responses on the wall chart.
What are the things in your life that you can control?
• Your own behavior, e.g., how you drive, what you say, what you eat, etc.
• Your feelings
• Your attitude
Key points:
• The more fully you realize that you can make a difference in your world and can control some of the things that happen to you, the more likely you are to gain control of your time.
• The more strongly you feel deep down, that it’s not possible to gain control of your time, the more difficulty you will have managing your time.