Time management

Miguel Cabral – NMO Management Sessions – 2nd August 2011

Fast Check-in

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- Time management talks by Randy Paush

- “How to get fast, going slowly” – Lothar J. Seiwert

- IFMSA training CD 2007

Resources “A good thief is worth10 good scholars"

Randy Paush

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Importance of time management

- We give our time but not our money...

- “Time hunger"

- Bad time management=stress

- life leadership / slow movement

- Is it working?

“Remember that time is money"

Benjamin Franklin 1748

“You can’t add more days to your life, but you can add more life to your days “

Lothar J. Seiwert

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How to do a good time management?

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Objectives “How many people, in their death bed, wished that they could have had more time for working? "

Stephen R. Covey

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- Mission statement and life goals:

- with a destination I can better know a good direction

- Life hats

- Long term perspective – short term motivation

- Enphasyses what is a waste of time or not

- Predict distractions and obstacles

- Evaluate, evaluate, evaluate…

Objectives

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Objectives

• S – Specific• M – Mesurable • A – Achievable• R – Relevant• T – Timebound

Objective ≠ Task

Long term list

short/medium term prioritize

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- Drucker's Dictum: doing things right is not so important as doing the right things

- Cost / benefit

Priorities

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Beside the nobel art of making things done, there is the nobel art of not getting things done. The wisdom of life is in eliminating what is not essentiatal.

(Chinese proverb)

- Important Vs Urgent:

-Important = values, people, actions, goals, future

-Urgent = time, deadlines pressure, stress, crisid, problems

Prioridades

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Prioridades

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- 80/20 rule

- 80% of success comes from 20% of work

- Bad experiences experience good perspectives

- Be flexible: Year Month week Day

Plan

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“If you fail to plan, you are planing to fail."

TO DO lists

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Tools/ Tips

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”NO!”

- Treat people well

- Also do the worse things

- You give the possibility of decision and autority

- Be specific in what you are asking, deadlines and rewards/punishments

Delegate

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- Time can be bought

- Time for yourself

- Create your “Pleasure box”

- Don’t think too much:

- Good archiving method

- use tricks (keys on top of the laptop in order to not forget the laptop)

-“If you think you can do it, You’ll do it. If you think you can’t do it, you are right." Henry Ford

Overall ideas

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-Stress compensate with sport, laughs, relaxation, etc…

Managing time… but not too much

“The art of being happy is in the limits that you put to yourself"

Wilhelm Schmid

“Life is what happens while we make other plans"

John Lennon

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I wish you time!

Thank you for your attention!