- Assess your time management skills.
- Evaluate how these skills have increased your locus of control.
- Identify three new areas in which improved time management skills would reduce stress.
- Add an action plan to integrate these to your daily routine.
I believe my time management skills are very good
and have grown a great deal over the years. It seems as though every time I
hold a new position in an organization, I learn more and more ways of
implementing new strategies where I am able to use my time management skills
and enhance the creativity and effectiveness behind them. I believe that as
time goes on and the more and more responsibility that is placed on me in both
my professional and personal life, will allow me to engage my thought processes
behind the efficiency of my time management, how it relates to my current
skills and how I can further assess them for future success in managing my time.
I believe that evaluating my time management skills
has allowed me the opportunity to increase my locus of control by understanding
where I lie within it. I feel as though when I was younger I began with an
external loci of control. For example, if I did poorly on a test, I felt as
though the test questions were too hard, and if I performed well on a test, the
test was easy or that I was lucky in the grade that I received. Now that I am older
I feel as though I have a more internal locus of control which allows me to believe
that me performance has more to do with how much work I put into something. My
internal locus of control allows me to understand where I lie with my time management
skills and leaves me responsible for my success or failures of how effective my
time management will be in various situations.
The first area I feel in which time management would
reduce stress would be at work. There are a variety of policies and procedures
I have to follow at work. On top of that there are a variety of responsibilities
that I hold both as a team member of my team and as an individual. I have a
variety of to do lists that I use as well as systems such as Evernote and Skydrive
which allow me and my team to stay focused and on track with where we are in
the day.
The second area I fell time management would reduce
stress would be in my personal life with my husband. My husband and I tend to
have very opposite schedules where one of us is home while the other is out. I believe
it is necessary to get this schedule under control as there are many things we
must get done in our personal lives that are sometimes, missed, overlooked, or
completely forgotten about as we hold these very different schedules. Time management
in this area would greatly reduce stress.
Lastly, I believe that time management is going to
be a huge factor for when my baby is born. My whole world is going got turn
upside down and I am going to have to learn how to care for a child, as well as
work, as well as take my online courses, as well as do the day to day stuff a
wife does in the household. My time management skills here are probably going
to be the most important, as it will affect me and a variety of other people
the most.
I believe that continuing to use Evernote and Skydrive
will help me to continue to be successful. I also use a calendar to ensure
things are getting done on time and when they are supposed to. I also use a
number of apps in my phone to ensure that I am on schedule with the things it
is I need to do. I also sometimes purposely leave notes for myself either at
work or at home so I know I have something coming up that I know I cannot miss.
I believe that using all of these resources and continuing to find other
resources that are helpful, will assist me with my time management skills and
allow me to be successful with mastering the skills that are going to be necessary
to make it through both my professional and personal life.
