10 Tips for Effective Time Management

Set your goals: Short term (weekly, monthly), medium Determine your short-term (3-4 month annual) and long-term (2-3 year and longer goals, ideals, etc.) goals. List them from shortest term to longest term and record them either on paper or electronically. Do not write in too much detail. Remember, you're only writing down your goals, not everything you need to do. A maximum of 20–25 goals is a good number, any more may mean you are getting too detailed. Keep these things you wrote in a place you can easily access, because you will look at them at least once a month and see if you are working towards these goals.

Create your priorities according to these goals you have set: The goals you set above do not have to be career-related. You may also have set goals for your family. Think of these goals as your compass. Now, when you start a new job, think of spending money somewhere, etc. These will be the values ​​that will guide you, these will be the goals you set.

Make and use lists:Your brain remembers everything. It was not designed to. If you give him the task of remembering everything, you will waste time and energy on the problems he really needs to solve. So write down everything that comes to your mind. It's an idea, a job you need to do, etc. it could be. First, start by writing down the goals you created above. Lists will help you a lot in managing your life. It also allows you to make better decisions about where you should spend your time. Either use a pen and paper or an electronic to-do program. It doesn't matter what you use, whatever feels easy to you. If I can do this with my smartphone, with my family etc. If you want to share the lists and work I have done, I recommend Wunderlist as an easy-to-use tool in Turkish.

Do not be a slave to e-mails: We get a lot of e-mail. Most of us don't have jobs that require keeping track of emails minute by minute. However, most of the time we find ourselves constantly checking whether there is a new mail, with our hand on the mouse or on the phone. It's not just work that comes with emails. We may also receive mail that may distract us and sometimes cause us to spend hours unnecessarily surfing the internet. However, if we spend at least some of this time on the goals we set above…
 

• Set certain times to read your e-mail and check your mail at these times.

• Turn off email alerts on your phone, this will only distract you. If you are using an iPhone, you can set up to receive instant alerts only from people you define as important (for example, your boss).

• Do not leave emails in the inbox after reading them or taking the necessary action. Send it to the archive folder with the Archive option. Working in an area with hundreds of emails will cause distraction. Keep only emails you are working on in your inbox. This way, you can more easily distinguish what you are working on.

Use a calendar: Whether it is electronic or on paper, be sure to use it. Have a calendar. For important work that will take time – for example Make time in your calendar to prepare a year-end report, help your child study for an exam, etc. Don't write everything you're going to do on the calendar. Use lists for your to-dos. Only leave time on your calendar for tasks that will take up a lot of time and require you to work undisturbed. Check your calendar every day or the day before and plan your day. When planning, try to prioritize tasks that will lead you to the goals you set above.

Limit your internet use, especially social media:If your job is not related to social media Decide how many hours you want to spend on Facebook, Twitter, etc. during the day and determine certain times to enter social media. If you wish, you can also use programs made for this purpose.

Learn to say no: You cannot always do everything that is asked of you. Before you say yes to something asked of you, look at your calendar and list. How inevitable is this job? And how well does this work serve your purposes? Finalize your decision to say yes or no after answering these questions.

The first thing you do in the morning should be "eat that frog": "Eating a frog" is an idiom. More precisely, it became an idiom after Brian Tracy2's book of the same name. What frog means here are unpleasant tasks that are "important but you don't want to do". Our logic is this: if you do the most “disgusting” task first thing in the morning, you will have completed the toughest task of the day and relaxed before noon. So eat that disgusting frog first thing in the morning and you'll find the rest of the day will be easier and more productive.

Enjoy your successes: Even if they're too small. If they happen, we notice our failures and often tend to blame ourselves for them. But we don't do the same for small successes. Our achievements must be significant for us to recognize them. However, when we realize successes, we work more motivated and have the chance to repeat them. In this way, we provide more effective time and productivity management. Even if it seems ridiculous to you, you can accomplish something that you couldn't achieve before. When you do, notice it and congratulate yourself.

Have routines in your life. Create certain routines before you start work, when you wake up in the morning, or before you leave work. These routines don't have to be very complicated, but they will prepare you for work and make it easier for you to "turn off the switch" and transition into private life mode after work. As an example, I would like to share my own morning routine. This routine I am going to write is a routine I follow after arriving at the office. Of course, it is not always possible to implement this routine. Sometimes there may be things you need to take care of as soon as you come to work. However, I have seen that trying to implement it as much as possible is also beneficial for me.
 

• Drink your morning coffee.

• Quickly look at the news. at.

• Quickly look at emails. If there is an important email, save it in your to-do program to reply to it. (At this stage, I am not interested in e-mails that are not important. If you are using Gmail, Gmail's feature of presenting e-mails by dividing them into tabs comes in handy here. I only look at the e-mails in the primary tab. I do not look at tabs such as shopping, forum, Social Media.)

• Review the calendar.

• Review the to-dos and decide roughly what you want to do today.