Time Management Strategies – Part 3 of 5

Are you struggling with prioritizing your time? Do you feel like a hamster on the wheel of life?

If you’re tired of  your life running you, today’s time management strategy will help you arrange your priorities.  Using the filter below you can identify where to focus your time, and best utilize the 24-hours you have.

Grab a sheet a paper and a pen. Starting right now for the next 24 hours, write down everything you do.

If you are completely honest, you will have more than a hundred items on your list!

Revisit your list and rank your activities according to the following scale, which was developed by Richard Foster:

1-Essential
2-Important but not essential
3-Helpful but not necessary
4-Trivial

What do you notice about your list?

You’ll probably see two things. First, you’ll find there are tons of details to handle every day! Second, there’s probably more time spent on the helpful but not necessary and trivial things, rather than the essential and important items.

Your priorities are actually the the list of essential and important items. When you spend time on these items, you will have the greatest impact and experience more joy and fulfillment. Why? Because these items are usually what matters most.

So what’s your next step? What challenges you the most? Would love to read your comments below.