Keys to Successful Time Management

Keys to Successful Time Management
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Keys to Successful Time Management
Time remains a vital resource in most life facets whose benefits people strive to optimize. It is highly valued in different scenarios and levels, ranging from individual to organizational. For this reason, institutions in the business world and the education sector prefer hiring time-conscious employees because of the potential advantages attached to it, which may be in the form of proceeds or avoided and evaded risks. For example, Oyarzun (2020) ties most business failures to the lack of proper time management skills among supervisors. Indeed, this analogy extends to and is valid according to multiple studies. There are various keys, which have become essential means for successful time management.
Creating a daily plan is one of the essential means of managing one's time successfully. The approach involves noting the activities beforehand and sticking to the schedule. According to Kelley (2017), a significant number of failures are associated with the lack of a clear plan of daily projects, which makes people's undertakings subject to distractions and intrusions by emergencies. The assertion is also common among college and university students who are often prone to external interests and tasks that impact their time usage. Hence, successful time management starts from ensuring a daily working schedule and sticking to the plans to achieve the expected relevant goals and objectives.
Also, allocating time for each task is practical and fundamental in successful time management. Slotting a given period to a particular activity prevents chances of overlapping activities, which could hinder an individual from finishing other activities (American College of Education, n.d.). Frequently, people concentrate on initial assignments while hardly noticing the time they spend on them. Indeed, there may be positive results on engagements for which individuals are more attentive and use more resources. However, there is a generally negative effect through lack of balance among all the critical areas. For instance, in a university setting where students participate in academic and co-curricular activities, overspending time in games limits learners' available time for their main course, making them score a lower grade point average (GPA).
Additionally, being early comes in handy in managing time. An individual should focus on performing duties and assignments before the deadline. Through experience, distractors tend to emerge in people's plans and expectations. Often, they consume the limited time, impacting the primary goal adversely. However, starting an activity before the scheduled time helps in cases of such time wasters. This concept is also fundamental in achieving self-efficacy, which Galindo-Domínguez and Bezanilla (2021) links with effective time management among students. These authors' study reveals a profound comprehension and digital competence among students in higher learning institutions. It is based on this interdependence and positive correlation that being early is crucial in successfully managing time.
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