Managing Your Time

1. Setting Goals

Few people have the time to do everything. So it is important to focus on priorities.

1.1 Establish your goals if you want to allocate your time effectively.

• Aim to spend your time on activities which help you to achieve your goals.

1.2 In allocating your time, activities which are important and urgent should get the highest priority.

• For example, important activities involving other people where your input is essential. Any delay by you may cause delays all down the line, reducing other people's ability to function effectively.

1.3 High priority should also go to things that are important but not urgent.

1.4 Consider whether you need to spend time on things that are urgent but not important.

• Can you delegate them to someone else?

1.5 Consider whether you should be spending any time at all on things that are neither important nor urgent.