Time Management Techniques

7 Feb 2023

    Throughout our daily lives, one struggles to balance the everlasting fight between completing the tasks required while balancing out time for oneself. Developing a schedule or time management technique are all viable ones for one to become more productive. However, everyone has their own different priorities and tasks to complete, making it hard to find one that feels right for you. Therefore, here are 3 essential guidelines to time management techniques so you can develop one personalized to your interest and schedule.



  1. Intention
    Make sure that all actions written on your list have an intention behind them, whether it is to complete a required task, or improve yourself or a skill such as communication. For this, I recommend a to-do list, as it provides an organized and concise way for you to label all the tasks you need to complete and for what reason. Knowing your intention behind the task allows you to move on to the next guideline.

  2. Prioritization
    Knowing the intentions behind your actions allows one to prioritize certain tasks before others. Prioritization is a massive time management technique and is part of being successfully efficient with one’s time, as one knows which tasks they have and how much time they would take to complete. In order to improve prioritization, one should utilize a calendar, as planning out and knowing due dates on certain tasks is important to recognize.

  3. Focus and Awareness
    Knowing the intentions behind your actions allows one to prioritize certain tasks before others. Prioritization is a massive time management technique and is part of being successfully efficient with one’s time, as one knows which tasks they have and how much time they would take to complete. In order to improve prioritization, one should utilize a calendar, as planning out and knowing due dates on certain tasks is important to recognize.

    Despite having the idea of intentions and prioritization down, none of those will work if you don’t have the focus and time awareness, which is the final piece of creating a time management technique. Harnessing one’s time wisely requires restraint and creating a schedule judging the amount of time you have until a certain deadline or event. In order to do this, it is recommended to set up a planner, as it allows one to mark points in the day or week to complete tasks by. By managing your time and scheduling wisely, one can make room for oneself and understand the concept of prioritization and intentions as well.