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 Long Term Stress Reduction Techniques  Attitude Changes
Time ManagementTime Management is a set of related practical skills that help you to use your time in the most effective and productive way possible. Time management helps you to reduce work stress by being more in control of your time and by being more productive. This ensures that you have time to relax outside work.The central shift of attitude within time management is to concentrate on results, not on activity. To this end it embraces a range of skills that help you to: - Assess the value of your time, and how effectively you are using it
- Focus on your priorities so that you know which tasks should be done, which ones can be delegated, and which ones can be dropped
- Plan projects so that they are done properly, with adequate resources
- Use the time you have more effectively
- Create more time
- Manage and avoid distractions
- Increase your productivity and personal effectiveness
This helps you to reduce long-term stress by:- helping to put things in perspective when you feel 'drowned' in work
- ensuring that you are in control of where you are going and what you are doing
- helping you to be highly productive, and secure because of this
- improving your enjoyment of your current role, and increasing your prospects of promotion to more interesting jobs
- giving you more quality time to relax and enjoy life outside work.
The Mind Tools section on Time Management Skills covers this in much more detail. |
