are you constantly finding yourself behind at work or school do you arrive at the end of the day and realize you've accomplished nothing on your to-do list well odds are you're not very good at time management and that is not doing your psychological health any favors in fact a study published in work and stress found that workers who didn't productively manage their time felt less in control of their lives here's the good news you can get better paying attention to how you spend your time we'll help you manage it more effectively and we're gonna help
you learn how to do just that today on well-cast we're gonna get you in control of your day with our rack method recording analyzing and changing three easy steps - great time management pause and print a copy of our handy well cast day planner finish printing let's dive in step 1 recording when you wake up tomorrow note the time in your day planner as the day progresses write down everything that you do yes we mean everything the 10 minutes you spent getting dressed a half day of productive work the hours you spent between social networking
sites we mean it all keep this up from the time you wake up until you go to sleep step 2 analyzing at the end of the day go through the schedule and highlight any chunks of time that you don't feel were used productively pick out your 5 biggest time wasters in your day be honest with yourself you spent a half an hour by the coffee machine talking to your coworker you spent an hour on Facebook and you stared into space for 20 minutes come on you get the picture especially focus on the time wasters at
work why a study published by the British Medical Journal says that workplace stress is minimised by effective time management it also says that workplace stress bleeds over into home life and undermines a relaxed life at home here's the ugly part add up all the time you wasted how much productive time did you blow on activities that got you no results step 3 changing now it's time to come up with a way to get that time back here are three ways to change your time wasting habits and become a better time manager prioritize to do lists
are a really effective way to manage your time in your priorities limit the number of tasks you have on this list to five and assign rankings to them in order of importance declutter not only is decluttering great for your health but you won't waste time digging around piles of stuff to find that one piece of paper that you really need check out our well cast on clutter for some helpful tips on lightening your load schedule Hey we all try to kill two birds with one stone but odds are multitasking will actually just stress you out
and delay you even more instead set aside blocks of time for individual activities for each activity set start and stop points this way your day is cleanly segmented then stick to this schedule try going one week using these tips to reduce your wasted time at the end of a week go figure out where you've improved your time management skills and how much time you've saved let's recap today you learned how to manage your time better by using our well-cast rack method you recorded analyze and hopefully changed how you use your time and you did this
by learning how to prioritize your most important tasks declutter your workspace to save you time and you learned how to build yourself an effective schedule to block out your day hey how did rack work for you we want to hear how much time you were wasting and how much you're saving now tweet us at watch webcast email us at watch webcast at gmail.com or leave a comment down below we'll see you next time [Music] you
