What do you do when you are watching TV? Do you just sit there and watch it? Catch up on social media and email? Do homework? Cook dinner?
There are endless possibilities to what you can be doing when watching an hour of TV. A lot of people I know like to do a quick work out when they watch TV. This way they are not wasting time throughout the day. The problem with a lot of others is they just sit there and watch TV. Unless you are watching something informational that will really help you succeed in your career TV should be on the background. Time management is huge to be a successful leader. My previous notes about what you do when you watch TV is probably the easiest way to create an extra hour in your day.
This is a video from Bruce Almighty. He takes on the role of being God. He with such an important job comes huge responsibility and a lot of work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0cG11lTS1E At first Bruce does not know how to use his time and divide his tasks up so he is not overwhelmed by answering every single thing in the world. This particular example shows Bruce trying to figure out how he is going to sort all of the prayers. He shows good leadership when he decides which method to use. First, file drawers. Second, sticky notes. Third, E-mail. What he does not do well, and what most of us fail at, is designating time for certain tasks.
Do you have a budget for your money? You know you have a certain amount of money for that particular day, so you designate money to the most important products/services you must buy and go down the list. Time should have a budget as well. We all want 8 hours to sleep, 3 hours to eat (all meals added together), 8 hours to work, 1 hour to work out, 1 hour of traveling, 3 hours to study… etc. That is 24 hours already with out whatever entertainment or activities you want to add onto the basics. So to have proper time management one must decide which tasks are the most important to them and designate the most time to those. Maybe you have to cut out 2 hours of sleep every night so you can prepare meals for the day or get ahead on your work tasks. A good leader will know when to stop doing a task as well if they need to move on to a new one. Just because you got assigned a project that will take 8 hours of work doesn’t mean you have to do all that in one day. A good leader will break it off into segments.