Time Management

Time Management

LaShawn D. Valrie

GEN/200

Monday, December 20, 2010

Dr. Joyce Mackey

Abstract

Time management can be very challenging anyone in the workplace or school environment. I have discovered that time management is my weakness since the birth of my son. Time management is all about taking your time with your tasks or assignments that were issued to you.

In my daily life, I find that time management has become my problem in the past year. Time management is a set of principles, practices, skills, tools, and systems working together to help you get more value out of your time with the aim of improving the quality of your life. It doesn’t matter if I have my day planned out, I still get easily distracted and move on to something else. Time management is an important factor in succeeding in the workplace, school, and life.

Despite the on how well I did in high school and my first couple of years in community college, and the birth of my son my problem with time management needs improvement. I start off with my inability to refuse work. This results me in taking on too much work and potentially causing damage in terms of raised personal stress levels, poor quality outcomes, and less time for what’s important. To prevent this from happening I have gathered some information on how to help me balance out my time management in everyday life.

I have gathered some information on how to help my time management problem. First I took a time management skills test determine on how good is my time management. And the results were that I’m good at some things, but there’s always room for improvement. That I also need to focus on the serious issues and to most likely find the work that becomes much less stressful. The test has also determined that I need to better prioritize my days. This information and test can be found on www.mindtools.com.

The process that I will take to help with my time management skill is to first I need to...