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Effective Time Management Strategies

This is a total of more than 6 hours wasted due to
poor planning and a lack of organization.
When people are asked why they are not
organized, the number one reason given is:

‘I don’t have the time.’

The fact is, people choose to be disorganized. Most
people could save this wasted time by spending
just two hours a week organizing and planning. In
just two hours of planning, you could free an
additional three to four hours every week of prime
time.

Effective Time Management is about behavioral
change. Learning how to spend more time acting
instead of reacting. The skills described herein will
help you become better organized and manage
time more effectively, which will increase
productivity, but only if you adapt the behavioral
changes as outlined throughout this book.

The fact that most organizations do not have a time
management program in place suggests that they
do not feel that this is an issue that needs to be
addressed. However, nothing affects the ability of a

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