My letter to the girls on 1/18/16
Hello girls:
Last Saturday in our Relief
Society monthly meeting we discussed Time management as the topic. The woman
teaching the class used to be a professor at Thunderbird. The things we
discussed were great reminders that when you begin to improve your use of time
the results will amaze you. The improvements in attitudes toward work and home
will become far more positive and effective because you will be in CONTROL.
I will share my notes since
we can always improve our time management; Remember time is money! “ The
greatest gift you can give someone is your time because when you give your time
you are given a portion of your life that you will never get back.”
We discussed many time
wasters generated by us such as TV social media, disorganization, procrastination
etc.
And time wasters generated by
other people or events: Traffic, Illness, etc.
Goals are to be SMART
Set specific goals
Measurable goals
Achievable goals
Realistic goals
Time bound goals
1 importance and urgency
2 keeping a diary and setting
a schedule
3 making a “to do” list
4 Utilizing priorities
We did this exercise:
1.
Identify your
role: Mother, wife, grandmother, friend, sister, daughter, business owner,
employee, missionary, Sunday School Teacher, etc.
2.
Select goals:
Next establish two or three goals of these roles.
3.
Schedule: Now,
looking at a weekly planner, how do you find time to work at each of these
goals? Having looked at the time needed to fulfill goals, what time is left and
available?
4.
Adapt daily:
Using a priority method (ABC)
A is for “Must do” B is for
should Do and C is for Could do. Your A B and C’s are flexible. Priorities
change with time. Today’s B’s might become tomorrow’s A’s
Another exercise was to
figure out our goals for 2016
Personal development (What I
want personally)
Family (What I want to
achieve in my family)
Spiritual (What I want to
develop spiritually)
We discussed 4 elements of
planning and prioritizing from Steven R. Covey:
1 Activities on crises mode
(Urgent and important)
2 Activities done ahead of
time (Important but not urgent)
3 Activities that interrupt
our focus (Urgent but not important)
4. Activities that waste time
(Not urgent and not important)
Having made your priorities,
work to the order. When unexpected demands turn up, assess their priority and
deal with them accordingly, inserting them appropriately on your list or
matrix. Never use something unexpected as an excuse for distraction.
At the end of the day review
what has been accomplished and carry forward any items on your list, or replace
any on your matrix, that have not been dealt with. Integrate these with
tomorrow’s new items and reprioritize.
Every day we are faced with a
set of choices. To a large extent, the effectiveness of what we do relies
directly on the choices we make.
Since we cannot manufacture
time we must continually decide what to do and what not to do.
We concluded how putting
first things first is the key to better managing your time.
Free Resources:
1 TED Talks-- www.ted.com
2 Mindbloom-- An App for
smartphone to improve your quality of life.
3 Udemy-- Courses (many free)
on time management and personal development
4 Luminosity-- App for
Concentration and improving memory
5 Vision Board Deluxe—App to
visualize your goals into actions
Love,
Vero
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