Goals are a Time Management Skill

Goals help you to make the most effective use of your time and they help you to reduce your stress. You understand that goals are important but you probably aren't very good at setting and getting them. Without the clarity that goals provide you lack focus and that lack of focus causes you to make poor time related decisions. Trying to set up too many goals at once sets yourself up for goal failure. You can't focus on or track too many goals so you're better off setting a few goals and really concentrating on getting those than trying to do everything at once. When you only have a few goals it's much easier to plan the next actions you need to take.

Goals help you to focus your energies on doing the right things. You have to know what the right things are though before you can take those actions. When you have written well planned out goals you know what actions you need to take.

When you write your goals out you can identify what's keeping you from having that goal now and what you'd have to do to get it. That means you have to think through both your obstacles and your best options to overcome those obstacles. This helps you to identify the actions you will have to take.

You can make better use of your time when you know the actions you need to take and the most important actions that produce the best results You need to plan each goal down to the level of the specific actions you can take each day to make those actions happen. Plus you can make better decisions before you take an action.

You spend a large portion of your day responding to interruptions. When you do that you're taking a reactive approach to time management that increases your stress and reduces your productivity. It's a whole lot easier to allow distractions and interruptions to use up your time than it is to decide on the actions you will take before you take them.

Goal focus requires that you retrain your behaviors and the behaviors of those around you. Train yourself to take at least one action everyday that will move you closer to the accomplishment of your goals. And you have to train those around you that you will respond to their needs but not necessarily at that moment.

To really understand how to get the most value from your time you have to understand what you want to get and how you can get that. Clear goals that are written in terms of actions is how you start to improve your time management. Back those goals up with your commitment to make those actions happen on a daily basis.

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