110: Time Management

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Questions about the Video File:

  1. What does RAC stand for? What does it help you with?
  2. How can you record your daily activities?
  3. What are you supposed to highlight in your record?
  4. How can work stress be minimized?
  5. What does work stress have to do with your home life?
  6. What are the three ways that can make you a better time manager?
  7. What’s wrong with multitasking?

 

General Questions:

  1. What was the last thing you were doing right before this session? Was it really necessary or helpful?
  2. Are you good with tight deadlines? Do they make you stressed? Do they turn out to be problematic?
  3. When was the last time you missed an opportunity because you didn’t have time?
  4. Do you ever plan your day/week/month/ year? How much time do you put into planning it? To what extent do you meet your plans?
  5. What takes the largest proportion of your time on a typical day? Do you enjoy it?

 

Related Quotes:

  • “Either you run the day or the day runs you” Jim Rohn
  • “Plan your work and work your plan” Napoleon Hill
  • “Proper planning and preparation prevents poor performance” Stephen Keague
  • “Time is what we want most but what we use worst.” William penn
  • “The way we spend our time defines who we are” Jonathan Estrin

 

Related Idioms and Expressions:

 

  1. Chunks of time: a part of time, usually a large one
    • Plan big chunks of your time first, then look for smaller activities to fit into smaller chunks
  2. Blocks of time: a part of time with clear start and finishing point
    • Divide your day to 16 blocks of time simply one for each waking hour.
  3. Spend time on something: use time doing something
    • Don’t forget to spend some time on planning.
  4. To kill time: to waste time by doing something useless or nothing
    • Are you really watching that nonsense movie or just trying to kill your time?
  5. Time flies: time passes quickly
    • Time flies when you’re with friends having great time.
  6. Round the clock: 24 hours a day
    • Some people enjoy working round the clock
  7. Upset someone’s plans: to ruin someone’s plans
    • Mary’s unexpected presence upset all my plans for finishing my assignment before the holiday.

 

 

Related Words and Phrases:

  1. Feel/be in control of: rule someone or something
    • When you plan your time you certainly feel in control of your life.
  2. Dive in: to start doing something suddenly and energetically
    • Dive in things that make you feel more positive.
  3. Progress (v): continue gradually
    • Take care of the level of your energy as the day progresses.
  4. Prioritize (v) to decide what is more important to deal with first
    • Prioritize your to-do list to avoid missing important tasks.
  5. Declutter (v) to remove unnecessary items from a place to organize it
    • Declutter your office as well as your home to feel organized everywhere you are present.
  6. Multitasking (n) the ability to do more than one thing at the same time
    • Human brain is designed for multitasking in many aspects that allows us to survive.
  7. Procrastinate: do something at a later time because it’s unpleasant or boring
    • He definitely has the habit of procrastinating important but unpleasant tasks.
  8. Schedule (v, n) plan and arrange activities to happen at a certain time
    • Schedule your big goals by breaking it into smaller ones.
    • The new schedule really includes all the aspects we have discussed in the meeting.

 

Please leave a response to the following question as a comment: 

Do you consider yourself a good time manager? Please elaborate.

 

 

There are 6 Comments

Actually, due to my job and my responsibilities I must be a good time manager. As a matter of fact I am a marketing manager in a pharmaceutical company and I should have a plan for my stuffs as well. I have designed a time table for each one and determined their tasks and a deadline for each task. For example if we want to implement a marketing plan at first we are thinking about our goals and deadlines then we try to build up an effective schedule with dedicated time blocks then regarding to this schedule, we put our stuffs through this plan considering their abilities and their job titles and keep them under close evaluation in order to meet their deadlines. So not only I should stick to my time management plans but also I should keep my stuff under observation to be loyal to their time tables and help them to manage their time more effectively. And I never forget they consider me as a leader as you may know "leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It's about one life influencing another".

Thanks Alireza!

1. Stuff>>>>> staff
2. Full stop before "Then" in line 6
3. Omit "then"  + to in line 7 (.... blocks. Regarding this schedule, ....)
4. Last line: one's life influencing ....

 

My question is: Is it necessary to have a strict time management plan for whole your life?

Time management has an effective role in my progress in life. I observe the RAC (Record, Analyze, Change) exactly in every plan of my life. I should say that I write anything about my programming in a paper. I think by writing I can be more concentrated on to have better schedule. If I want to speak about my time management more precisely I should beckon on some levels:

  1. Firstly, I write all my tasks in a paper. After that, I go to prioritize them based on their value in my future. I can title this level diving in. I have experienced this level is very important in time management. When you procrastinate some efficient tasks in your programing, certainly it will be noxious for you.
  2. Secondly, I go to declutter the designated task from prior level. I arrange my time for a week. I assign a little of my time for some other tasks with lower priority.
  3. Thirdly, there are a lot of unforeseen tasks in each work that I should arrange them in my programming. I think such tasks happen in anyone’s life and you cannot do anything with them.
  4. Finally, at the weekend, I analyze my performance during the week and I try to eliminate time wasters in my schedule.   

Eventually, I should say that, without managing my time I cannot do my tasks in their best status. By programming, I can diminish my stress and anxiety about my tasks.  

 

My Question: To what degree do you agree or disagree with the following idea? “Time management is more essential in academic life”

Great!

1. Line 4 >>>> omit "on"
2. Item 1, on a paper
      Item 1, line 3>>>> experienced that
3. Item 2, prior level>>>>previous phase
4. Item 4, on weekend
General comment>>>>> the word "my" is used many times in the writing task!!!

Actually I am not a good time manager but this situation easily will be changed when I have an exam

Or my tasks have a deadline.

I think in general, women are better time manager than mans because based to stereotypes, wrong traditional and cultural norms, it has been idea that women have responsibility for care and domestic affairs or in the other hand “unpaid work”. Therefore women force to learn how to manage their limited time.

Nowadays we have seen women work likes mans and do domestic works too and this impossible without time management.