What are the five best time management tips?
8020Info Associate Harvey Schachter responds: No such list can be definitive, but here are five very helpful tips: • When something is in your head, always mark it down somewhere, as Get It Done advocate David Allen stresses. That may be today’s To Do list, your list of things you have to do in the future, or your calendar, picking a time when you might be able to accomplish it. • Either at the end of your workday or the start, write out a To Do list for the day with a reasonable number of items. Divide them in some practical way that works for you, such as big and small, top three items and the rest, or can’t wait and can wait. • Stephen Covey advises us to categorize our work by urgency and importance. Most of us fail to spend sufficient time in the important but not urgent category, because the urgent and unimportant overwhelms us. Figure out how to spend your time mostly doing important tasks. Indeed, that may be the best way to divide your daily To Do list. • Don’t leave things un
