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Time Management Goals
 Poor
Time Management Some
indicators of poor time management are:
- Constant rushing (e.g. between
meetings or tasks)
- Frequent lateness (e.g.
attending meetings, seeing clients or meeting deadlines)
- Low productivity, energy and
motivation (e.g. ‘I can’t seem to get worked up about anything
apart from pay day’)
- Frustration (e.g. ‘I always seem
to be at the beck and call of others’)
- Impatience (e.g. ‘where the hell
is that information I’ve asked him for? He’s holding me back
from getting on with my work’)
- Chronic vacillation between
alternatives (e.g. ‘I’ve been scratching my head for weeks over
this. Whatever option I choose is going to put me at a big
disadvantage. I don’t know which way to jump’)
- Difficulty setting and achieving
goals (e.g. ‘I’m not sure what my role is or what is expected of
me’)
- Procrastination (i.e.
continually putting off starting a task or activity. This may
occur because you fear failing to do a good job or baulk at the
effort required from you)
To this list could be added inter alia:
- Perfectionism (i.e. the
uncompromising pursuit of exceptionally high standards, e.g. ‘I
will only accept one hundred per cent achievement; anything less
is crap’. This may mean you go very slowly to avoid making any
mistakes or try to avoid the task because you fear doing a less
than perfect job. Perfectionism is often a cause of
procrastination)
- Getting bogged down in details
(i.e. you cannot grasp the main issues because of your
over-attention to details ‘I can’t help being a dot the i’s and
cross the t’s type of person’)
- Feeling overwhelmed by your
workload (e.g. ‘now I understand what being stressed-out really
means!’)
- Unassertiveness (i.e. not
standing up for yourself, e.g. ‘I don’t like arguments, so even
though it’s not my job, I’ll do it to keep the peace’)
Little delegation of work (e.g. ‘if you want a job done
properly, then do it yourself’)
- The essence of time management
is knowing what your values and goals are in life and making the
optimum use of your time to achieve these ends. However, knowing
what your goals and values are does not mean that time will
automatically subordinate itself to your new-found sense of
purpose. You will need to review how you use your time and phase
out those activities that are not goal-directed. This process
requires adopting new attitudes and behaviors and tackling those
obstacles to change (e.g. unassertiveness, perfectionism) in
order to make time management a daily and lifetime reality
rather than an intriguing but elusive concept. (Jones, K. 1998)
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