These Time Management Tips Are Changing My Work Productivity

The art of managing time to give yourself more of it

Photo by Marita Kavelashvili on Unsplash image edited by author.

I used to endlessly write to-do lists. It got so silly that there was a point where I would spend more time writing to-do lists than doing anything on the list. Ridiculous right? There is no question that time is the most important asset we own. But in my attempt to save it, in my attempt to be as organised as possible to mean that I was making the most of my time, I inadvertently wasted it. Whoops.

But it wasn’t until I realised that my obsession with list writing wasn’t getting me any closer to my goals that I had to have a serious word with myself. If you’re anything like me, you probably have had a similar experience. In the pursuit of efficiency, you forget what you were really trying to achieve all along. It’s only to you realise that you got lost that you can retrace your steps and see what went wrong.

Use a timer relentlessly and compassionately

Between my first and second cup of morning coffee, a weird thing happened, I realised that by allocating your time somewhere you are removing it from somewhere else. I know, who’d have thought, but it was only between sips that I realised I’d been getting this time management thing confused. So, in an…