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Download a time management worksheet and improve your productivity and reduce your stress. These time management worksheets can boost your time management skills and techniques.

Whether it's tracking your time, constructing a to do list, or planning your week, time management forms can make a real impact in taking control and getting things done.

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Time management worksheet 1: Know how you spend your time

Are you really busy?

Top 3 Time-Wasters

1. Procrastination. See these tips for overcoming procrastination.

2. Too many interruptions. One of the biggest interruptions is email. Check out these tips on email etiquette.

3. Not delegating work. See these tips on how to delegate effectively.


Are you working late at nights and taking work home on the weekends? Perhaps you want a better work/life balance and don't know where to start?

Many people want to make a change for the better but just don't know where to start.

The saying "you can’t fix an issue until you can identify the problem" is true of time management.

Often, a first step in the identification any time management issue is to know how you spend your time.

Fill out a time management log. or download free time tracking software.

When clients have tracked their time they have often been amazed at how much time they spend on trivial, unimportant tasks.

Tasks that are not conducive to them making the most of their time!

Tracking your time allows you to set time management goals in the reduction of these time-wasters and to work more effectively.

How Good Is Your Time Management?

Rather than play 'pin the tail on the donkey' with your time management, get to the heart of your time management problems.

This time management survey can help you boost your time management skills and complements your time management log.


Time management worksheet 2: A daily to do list

I live and breathe my prioritized daily to do list.

By prioritizing your tasks, and ensuring that you do your top priority tasks first, you make the most of your time.

I find that a prioritized to do list keeps me focused on the tasks that I need to do.

Time Management Activity

time management matrix Once you have completed your to do list, take a look at the time management matrix. What quadrant do you spend most of your time in?

Are you a systematic planner or on a treadmill of putting out fires and using your time inefficiently?

Find out how you can use the time management matrix to become more effective in your life.


Time management worksheet 3: A weekly planner

One of the defining characteristics of successful people is planning your work and then working your plan.

This planning can occur at a number of stages, whether it is a long-term vision set out in your goal setting plan, or a daily plan such as your to do list.

Often it is very useful to have a weekly plan, as sometimes a daily plan is too short to get the tasks done and a long-range plan is just too far in the future to be motivating.

personal organizer

Whether you download a weekly planner or use a personal organizer, the important thing is to have a snapshot of your week on paper.

A weekly plan helps the student, business professional and busy family organize and schedule their time.

I talk more about the importance of using a time management schedule so that you can get you high impact activities done.

I find that constructing a weekly plan on a Sunday night is a great way to plan the week.

Planning your tasks highlights any bottlenecks of activity and allows you to implement various time management strategies, such as delegation, in a systematic manner.

By planning your work and then working your plan you are well on the way to using your time more effectively.

Time management worksheet 4: Use your goal setting worksheet

Did you know that goal setting is fundamental to time management.

Why?

Because setting goals identifies your top priorities.

One of the things that characterizes successful people is their long-term planning and the daily steps that they take to achieve their long-term plan.

These goal setting templates help you to take those small steps so that today’s dream becomes tomorrow’s reality.

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