Tips To Organize Your Time At Work

This can be one of the most difficult things to handle especially if you are working from home, there is nobody there to supervise you, and totally opposite there are a lot of distractions, but no doubt is the most important thing to do if you want to be successful and do not work all day and night, is important to have time for your own projects and personal life. So here you can find some tips to help you to organize the time I hope it works for you as well as it worked for me.

1. DETERMINE HOW CURRENTLY YOU ARE SPENDING YOUR TIME

The very first thing to do in order to organize your time is to know how are you spending it right now, you will need to track your daily activities for at least a week, after that you will be able to determine what are you doing with your time, how are you spending the 24 daily hours, and calculate how much time are wasting in activities that are not productive like checking the social media or watch TV, and working from that information invest better your time.

Those 2 hours or 120 minutes that you spend a day watching your phone can be used to finish a task, or a report, mail, etc., those activities that you really need to do. Right now, the phones have an update that helps you to be focused by limiting the notification and apps in a certain time, use that in your favor.

2. SCHEDULE

A schedule will be always a good idea, you can design your daily schedule, use a planner and stick with it, the importance of creating a schedule is to accomplish every one of the activities, start by allocating all those activities that need to be completed daily, then the ones that have to be made twice or three times per week or in specific days, and by the end those activities that are needed just once per week, so you can place it in the days that you are not so busy, this will help you to avoid the overcharge of tasks.

3. PRIORITIZE

At the moment organizing your time is so important to prioritize, sometimes we overload ourselves with a lot of activities that by the end we won’t have enough time to handle, that is why prioritizing is so important, start by removing all the activities that you shouldn’t be performing in the first place, the identify those that are vital or the most important activities that you have to do, in that way you will be sure that you will finish your essentials. Here a Key to classify your activities:

• Important and urgent: These tasks have important deadlines with high urgency—complete them right away.
• Important but not urgent: These items are important but don’t require immediate action and should involve long-term development strategizing. Strive to spend most of your time in this quadrant.
• Urgent but not important: These tasks are urgent but not important. Minimize, delegate, or eliminate them because they don’t contribute to your output. They are generally distractions that may result from the poor planning of others.
• Not urgent and not important:These activities hold little if any value and should be eliminated as much as possible.

And finally, but not less important try to give each activity a deadline so you can measure that your schedule and planner are working.