Time Management Plan

Devising a Time Management Plan

Since time management is such a valuable component of success many people look for a reliable time management plan to help them set up the type of schedule that will benefit them immensely. Of course, this can present a bit of a dilemma. Not everyone is an experienced job performance coach. That is to say, the average person on the street may not be familiar with the required complexities that allow for drawing up a solid time management plan. But is a time management plan really something that is complex? Honestly, this is a major misconception about time management; time management is often very easy to figure out and does not require much complexity to work.

Simple Works

Please do not assume that a time management plan needs to be something highly detailed and grandiose. That is to say, you do not have to come up with a profound or "magical" schedule to boost you time management situation. In fact, sometimes it is very small and minor moves that can form the center of a powerfully helpful time management plan. In fact, even making a change of one hour a day can lead to huge results. To illustrate this point, let's take a look at how the minor manipulation of one hour of a schedule can lead to major time management gains.

A Different Perspective

Let us say a student invests one hour a week to study math but there are no improvements. In order to improve the math scores the student opts to study two hours a week. Unfortunately, the student's comprehension in math is not improving. Worst of all, the student's test scores did not improve either. This can lead to a tremendous sense of despondency on the part of the student. However, the problem is a time management problem but it is not a problem of volume. That is, the way to work a proper time management plan does not involve adding three hours of study to the schedule; it involves jostling the schedule a bit.

The stuffy block of time that the student has employed is 7pm Sunday night. The reason for this is that the student believes that he needs to get a jump on the school week and Sunday night would aid in this regard. But, this is a poor time slot for him. On Fridays nights he goes out with his friends; on Saturday he plays soccer all morning with a league; and Sunday is church and relative visiting time. By 7pm Sunday, he is in need of bed not studying!

So, the student opts to move his one hour stuffy time to Weds since his class schedule on Weds is mostly 'easy' classes as well as being devoid of extracurricular activities. This minor change in his time management plan ultimately has the end result of the student's math scores improving dramatically.