How Do You Manage Yourself in Time? Your Most Valuable Resource

By: Kristin Lloyd Moussa

Time management is one of the most important topics that people focus on aside from overcoming procrastination. When you manage yourself and your priorities in time, your are able to get more accomplished. Using time management strategies can help you become more productive and stay within your expected deadlines. Changing how you do things will improve your time management and productivity. Planning your time in advance is always a good idea. 

1. Work using the Pareto Principle or the 80/20 rule. 

This principle states that 20% of your work will yield 80% of your results. So be sure to focus your time on the most important activities and prioritize to get the most necessary activities completed. 

2. Schedule time for prioritized focused activities. 

Scheduling time and having time set aside for productive work is most important so you can get things done. Just like you would set aside time for meetings, set aside time for focused activities. This ensures that your work gets done and doesn't fall by the wayside. 

3. Allow time for interruptions 

Interruptions like phone calls and emails happen. Therefore when expecting it it can be built into your schedule. This enables you to stay on schedule and enough time is built in to account for unexpected activities and interruptions. 

4. Pay attention to your time and beware of time wasters. 

There are a ton of time wasters out there. If you are attentive to how your time is spent then you will be more mindful about using your time to your advantage. So in other words be mindful and aware of how you spend your time. 

Try these four strategies and check in with how your are doing and how this has helped you to manage yourself and activities in time. Time is not the enemy and remember that you always hold the choice to be more productive and make better use of your time. 

Kristin Lloyd is a transformational life and success coach helping people achieve their dreams and live lives filled with personal satisfaction and joy. Kristin holds a Master’s Degree in Counseling, a transformational coaching certificate, and is a Psychology PhD candidate. Kristin has a full-time coaching practice at transformationalpath.com where she works with clients to help them fine tune their goals and desires; maps out possible paths to help them realize their dreams; and personalizes tools to help them get beyond distractions, hurdle obstacles, and avoid self-sabotage. 

Kristin works with individuals to improve their careers, money mindset, and professional relationships. She guides clients who are seeking physical health and wellness. Many people have turned to her to improve their love lives, catering to both couples and singles – couples who want to take their relationships to heightened levels and singles who seek to manifest their ideal partner. She has clients who are confused about life and their direction, as well as clients who appear to have it all but are struggling to achieve more meaningful goals. Many individuals turn to Kristin because some or all of their lives have been frozen by fear and uncertainty; she gives them the tools to empower themselves and grants them agency by eliminating their fear and self-doubt and building their confidence from within.

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