Time Management Skills

Struggles with time management skills can impact so many areas of our lives including home life tasks, work, and school. No one should have to go through life without learning the skills and strategies to change repetitive patterns of behavior that leave you feeling frustrated, defeated, and overwhelmed.

This page outlines an example of how I like to tackle time management skills. This goes at your pace (you set the frequency), and we can add on to this as needed depending on what we uncover as we get to work. I recommend starting with the basics, which is a 6 session package (outlined below). Between session skills practice is required, as is completion of a questionnaire prior to each session to optimize session time and personalize recommendations.

Goal Setting

We will work to set clear and defined goals and develop a customized way to track your progress of time management skills building. We will cover goal setting skills, and various tracking strategies so you can take these skills with you for the rest of your life. We will also discuss note-taking skills (if desired), and how to increase focus during meetings, or conversations with others.

Organization

We will discover how to set up and manage a personalized way to organize your life that works for “your brain”. We will cover how to create strategic “to do” lists and reduce overwhelm and avoidance that can come from maintaining these. Organization (when done correctly) should save you time and improve efficiency, and therefore become inherently motivating. We will also discuss organization of overwhelming spaces or an optimized environment for improved focus.

Reduce Procrastination

We will explore what I call “planned procrastination” (no, not all procrastination is bad), but a mindful and planned delay can be strategic to accomplishing your task list. We will also explore potential reasons behind chronic procrastination or task avoidance such as fear of failure or fear of success. We will learn to reframe automatic negative thoughts such as calling yourself “lazy”, or predicting that you “can’t do it”.

Reduce avoidance of hard or boring work

We also focus on reducing avoidance of hard or boring work, or reducing the difficulty tolerating or completing a task you find difficult or complex. We will explore the thoughts or feelings that you experience when faced with a difficult task, or one that requires sustained mental energy. Most importantly, we will cover skills to help you hold yourself accountable.

Prioritization

It is also important to learn how to prioritize tasks, manage deadlines, and break large tasks up into smaller, easier to accomplish portions. We will learn scaling skills, how to do weighted pros and cons lists,

Decision Making

We will practice decision making skills, delegation, and outsourcing for preserving your own resources.