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Here is how busy professionals can manage time effectively and be more productive

Learn the tricks to finally managing your time properly so that you can be more efficient at work.

Here is how busy professionals can manage time effectively

But as American author and motivational speaker Zig Ziglar put it, "Lack of direction and not lack of time is the problem." The issue here is actually not being able to manage your time wisely. This is why we are here to offer you the following tips.

Here is how you can manage your time effectively:

Always start with the most important task

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"The first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog" - Mark Twain.

Once your day begins, figure out the most important task and start with that. Doing this doesn't just make you manage time properly. It also increases your general productivity. By getting the important tasks out of the way, you follow the golden rule of time management and reduce the chances of failing to execute your tasks.

Learn to prioritize

It's easy to get overwhelmed when you feel like you have so many important things to do at once. By prioritising, you take away this stress. Make a to-do list based on the importance or urgency of each task.

Your list can look like this;

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  • Extremely important and urgent - Obviously, you should start with these tasks.
  • Urgent but not very important - Despite not being important, these tasks might have deadlines attached to them. So, just do them as soon as possible and be done with them.
  • Important just not as urgent - Once you have completed your urgent but not necessarily important tasks, you should move to these.
  • Unimportant and not urgent - Last on the list is the low-priority stuff. You can save them for last.

Making this list and then checking off completed tasks will give you both a sense of accomplishment and motivation.

Stay committed to the task at hand

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Once you figured out what needs to be done, just do it. Do not procrastinate or make excuses. Simply, close all other tabs, find a quiet place and concentrate on this one task.

Avoid distractions

Thanks to social media and modern technology, its really easy to be distracted by a phone call, emails, notifications from Twitter or other platforms.

Some people think they can split their attention work and all these distractions. While this might seem like its working, what you are actually doing is called "half-work." An example is stopping to check your phone while working on a report or checking an email while making a business call.

The danger of this is that you end up failing at both because you are never fully engaged in either task. It also takes you twice as long to accomplish half as much.

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This is why you need to learn to avoid distractions if you want to manage your time wisely and be productive. You do this by blocking out distractions and simply focusing on one thing at a time.

Learning to manage time properly does not happen overnight. You start and cultivate the habit over time until you become a time management pro.

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