Know why I am doing a series
on this?
What Psychologists Don’t Talk About Self Management?
What appears to be a straightforward concept is a very complicated phenomenon. Managing things and people is much easier than managing oneself. This is something What Psychologists Don’t Talk About Self Management?
Self-management will help with not only time management but scores of other aspects of an individual’s life. I have said enough about the topic in my earlier articles, so let me direct you to some of them. You
can choose whichever article interests you and go through it at your leisure.
Who is in charge of our lives?
Transforming Difficulty to Ease
Converting Weakness to Strength
The 12 C’s of the Cooperation Cycle
Does Stress Make You Abnormal?
Manifestation of Distress and how to overcome them?
What Psychologists Don’t Talk About Happiness?
What Psychologists Don’t Talk About Choices?
Psychologists Don't Talk About Work-Life Balance?
Let me just provide you with 42 Tips for
Effective Self-Management
SET1
1. Set
up a strong value system
2. Let
not others interfere unnecessarily with your value system
3. Make
your value system known to others
4. Communicate
that your values are very important to you
5. Define your objectives clearly
6. Plan
systematically
More about Value Systems in ‘What
Psychologists Don’t Talk About Value Systems?’
SET2
7. Identify and fix priorities
8. Do not attempt too much at once
9. Do not set up unrealistic deadlines
10. Do not accept unrealistic deadlines
11. Allow enough time for waiting for an appointment,
plane, bus, or train in your planning schedule
12. Use your travel time judiciously
SET3
13. Avoid haste and impatience
14. Get personally organized
15. Remove the confusion about roles, responsibility, and
authority
16. Avoid duplication of effort
17. Make sure you do not have too many people to report to
18. Reduce paperwork
SET4
19. Organize your filing system; Know where what is
available
20. Ensure adequate facilities
21. Never waste time searching for lost things
22. Make sure to delegate work based on systematic
planning
23. Do not include too many people to do the same job
24. Let not others waste your time
SET5
25. Make sure that your routine is systematized
26. Keep motivating others; otherwise, they will come in
your way
27. Do not tolerate indifference from others
28. Learn and practice co-ordination
29. Reduce interruptions
30. Learn to say “NO”
SET6
31. Do not be satisfied with incomplete or delayed
information
32. Give maximum importance to self-discipline
33. Do not leave tasks unfinished
34. Develop standards/controls/progress reports
35. Reduce visual distractions/noise
36. Develop
clarity in communication
SET7
37. Deny idle conversation
38. Develop listening skills
39. Stop procrastination
40. Reduce indecision
41. Do not wait for all facts; make decisions with what is
available to you
42. Learn to make snap decisions
Know why I am doing a series
on this?
Let me know if I am wrong. I have started this series because there
are hundreds of things psychologists don’t talk about. I feel that it would
benefit everyone if they did so. I hope at least now, they will make a
beginning.
This is an attempt to bring to the fore what has been hidden for a very
long time.
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