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In both our work and home lives we can often find ourselves overloaded with jobs that we need to complete. Trying to tackle all these tasks at once can be a nightmare and only lead us to panic and the end result can be that nothing gets completed on time. So what can we?

I have included a few tips below which can help:

• Figure out where you are wasting your time. Is it on making personal calls or reading unnecessary emails? Once you have determined your time wasting activities, set yourself goals whereby you can try to eliminate these tasks.
• Implement a plan by which your goals can be tracked. That way you know if things are working. Use a software program such as Outlook to physically manage your time and plan out how long you will spend on each task throughout the day.
• Prioritize your tasks. Some will be more urgent than others and so it is important to spend your time effectively, and not just take on tasks as and when they come in.
• Delegate your work to colleagues. Sometimes it is important to realise than we cannot do everything ourselves and so some tasks can either be delegated in house, or even outsourced.
• Lastly, set time limits for each of your tasks. This may be difficult at first, but the more you do it the better you will get at estimating. It will also help to realise which tasks are realistically possible for each day.

Time Management is much more about changing our behaviour towards our work and can help to us to cope with our workload and hopefully lead to less stress.