Mastering Time Management

Mastering Time Management

Time management if mastered will be the foundation of completing any task successfully and the leverage to produce a stellar project. I suffer with not mastering time management and I want to correct the problems and patterns that hinder me from doing so. The key areas I know about myself that need to be addressed are procrastination, organization, prioritizing, and building confidence in the areas that I lack.

In my opening statement I stated the areas that needed addressing and people may think that the order in which they were placed was in random order, but they were not. Procrastination is the number one problem that screams for my attention. When I procrastinate it sets off a chain of events that begins with increasing my stress level, followed by anxiety and self-doubt. Stress presents itself in a variety of different ways. Depending on the person what may send one spiraling downward with a sense of losing control will do the complete opposite to another. The idea of tackling an assignment at the last minute due to poor time management on my behalf would send me to an unpleasant place. Being stressed from a task at work for example does not mean when you leave the job the stress level will necessarily reduce. Stress can follow an individual and have a drastic effect on their social life, relationships, and even cause physical illness. According to "3 Most Common Physical Illnesses Related To Stress" (n.d.)," Physical illness related to stress can differ in magnitude and seriousness. It can range to extremes; from simple fatigue after a bad night of sleep resulting from the mewing over of a stressful situation past, present or future, to the life changing event such as a heart attack or stroke" (para. 2). The next hurdle that I need to address is my organizational skills. When I begin working on a specific task I have numerous ideas of what I will do to complete said task. I begin to work on the ideas by gathering information and materials that will be useful to the success of the task. Now I have all the resources needed for the task and it begins to resemble an overwhelming amount of material without a clue of which direction to start. This is also due to not prioritizing well. Prioritizing and organizing go hand in hand to me. You have to have one to make the other work, so when it is missing or lacking the vision of the overall success of the project becomes blurred. This feeling begins to raise the question of doubt in completing the task.

Self-doubt is the beginning of the end that tears down my confidence. When self-doubt becomes a factor in completing a task it causes confusion to the point that of knowing the task needs to be finish and likely producing one that is mediocre. That is the result of throwing pieces of all the material gathered together, not necessarily in the best possible configuration.

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