In this assignment I am going to explain and evaluate the benefits and skills needed for good time management. Time management is the act or process of planning and exercising conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific actives, especially to increase efficiency or productivity. Effective time management must sit in the context of knowing what we want. Perhaps’ as we become aware of where our time goes we can start to identify the time management problems we need to solve.

It is important to develop effective strategies for managing our time in order to balance the conflicting demands of our days. In order to improve productivity we need to think about how we are using our time and the best ways time management can work for us. In order to manage our time well we need to develop time management skills, although time management is much a product of how effectively we plan and balance are daily lives, there are plenty of tools and resources that can help us when planning our time better.

Firstly Identifying Procrastination. The first step to conquering this behaviour is to understand why it happens. Fear of failure, self-doubt and goals without deadlines.( unit 1 Personal Development Workbook). Avoidance may seem like an easy option but what is the long term impact. We create more stress by pushing everything to the deadline. Understanding that the longer we leave the task the bigger the epic becomes. We need to make sure that we are not just completing tasks that are more interesting in preference to the more difficult boring tasks.

Secondly understanding how to prioritize our time and actives. It is impossible to prioritize when we have no clear idea of what needs to be done. Getting into the habit of making a detailed to do list of everything we need to do each day setting a routine helps us to effectively manage our time. To do list