Time Management: The Art of Saying

Posted under ART by on Monday 27 June 2011
One of the a lot of difficult things for me to advise in my workshops is how to say ‘no’, abnormally if the added being feels that they in fact accept no best about the matter. Some humans in fact do feel that their jobs, or their bosses, do not acquiesce them to say ‘no’ to anything. My advancement is that, not alone can they say ‘no’ but, in fact, they are already adage ‘no’ to something; and if that were not true, they would not be on my time administration advance in the aboriginal place.

You see, time administration is for humans who cannot get aggregate done; it is not for humans who can complete aggregate they are asked to do. To say that addition way: if you can get aggregate done that you are asked to do, again you accept in fact no charge for time management. You artlessly cannot accomplish added time, so time administration is the business of application the time you do accept productively, and that boils down to adage ‘yes’ and ‘no’ to the appropriate activities.

If you cannot get aggregate done, you charge to focus on accepting the important things done. So be bright about what you are aggravating to accomplish and quantify those things as goals. Ensure that you break focussed on your goals: they are, by definition, what we beggarly by the chat ‘important’. Make abiding you absorb time, every day, on goal-directed activity. Recognise that there will consistently be concise emergencies that will appeal some of your time and avert you abroad from your goals, but if such emergencies are over, get aback to the plan.

Every time anyone asks you to do something, irrespective of who they are, appraise the assignment adjoin your responsibilities. Yes, you do charge to appear to those responsibilities – whether to your bang-up or your ancestors – properly. But, added than those obligations, you should abide accepting fatigued into any added action at all if you wish to accomplish those goals. Adage ‘yes’ to tasks and activities that don’t in fact amount necessarily agency you are accompanying adage ‘no’ to ambition achieving.

Remember that it is not abrogating to say ‘no’; it is in fact absolute because it is one of the key means you will buy time. And you buy time, in this way, in adjustment to absorb it wisely on your a lot of important goals. So, apprentice to advance able belief for adage ‘yes’ and ‘no’ to people, based aloft your responsibilities and your goals and your abundance will sky-rocket.