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Time Wasters To Avoid
Begin Managing Your Time Right Now
Don't put off dealing with your time management issues any longer.
The more you wait, the further behind you will fall; the further behind you fall, the more difficult your situation will get.
Here are 40 actions that most people do to waste their time:
How many of them do you participate in?
1. Spending too much time during the day reading email
2. Being a member of too many online communities
3. Putting off tasks you don't want to accomplish
4. Checking your social media accounts too often during the day
5. Excessive text texting
6. On the spur of the moment, watching Youtube videos
7. Googling on the
internet at random
8. Taking on too many jobs at once
9. Multitasking
10. Complaining or gossiping about others
11. Accusing others of making faults
12. When you first start using new items or software, you don't read the manuals and instructions.
13. Daydreaming
14. Spending too much time pondering insignificant decisions
15. Looking through a cluttered environment for misplaced documents or other objects
16. Excessively neatness
17. Performing tasks that could be entrusted to others.
18. Micromanaging your employees is number
19. Allowing subordinates and team members to load problems on you that they should be able to solve themselves.
20. Unnecessarily shifting priorities
21. Failing to take steps to minimize interruptions
22. Writing letters, memoranda, and reports that a secretary or assistant could write
Failure to set goals and
objectives (number 23).
24. Failure to set a daily schedule
25. Failure to establish priorities
26. Crisis management
27. Poor meeting planning or management
28. Failure to maintain a proper filling system
29. Misplacing data and materials and failing to return them to their proper locations
30. Making use of antiquated methods
31. Failing to automate time-saving tasks that could be automated.
32. Involvement in personal disputes
33. Personal insecurity
34. Ineffective communication or poor listening skills
35. During business hours, there are too many personal activities and phone calls.
36. Involvement of too many persons in decision-making
37. Not completing one task before moving on to the next
38. Making or receiving unimportant phone calls
39. Spending an excessive amount of time on phone calls
40. Carrying out trivial or unnecessary duties (busy work)
So, make a plan to eliminate those hours - wasters
Make a note of your most time-consuming hobbies, and then plan to remove or dramatically reduce the amount of time you spend on them to better manage your time.
Writing down the cause of the problem and the methods to remedy it in a worksheet is the greatest way to get something done about those time-wasting activities.
List what needs to be done and who else needs to be involved as you prepare to tackle each challenge.
Start with minor problems if the biggest drain on your time appears to be too complex to solve right now. After you've solved the minor issues, you can move on to the more serious issues.
