Brought to you by www.upskilled.edu.au Presentation Summary Time has increasingly become harder and harder to control. A quick Google search for “Time Management” will unearth thousands of hits, all with tips and tricks on finding the balance between work tasks, family time, and personal projects. Modernity has made it even worse with the popularity of shared calendar systems. In the present workplace someone can literally plan out your life for you. Elizabeth Grace Saunders, time coach and author of The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: How to Achieve More Success With Less Stress, suggests that the process of taking control of your time is actually quite simple. All you really need to do is dole out your time wisely and set early expectations for both yourself and your peers.

1. You are wasting
your time. Want
to know why?

2. “your time is your life. So when you surrender control of your calendar to people,
you put them in control of your destiny.” – Elizabeth Grace Saunders

3. Out of time to do what you want to do?

4. Ready For A Change

5. 4 Ways to Keep Your Calendar In Check

7. Saying “No” OFTEN and Early
frees up time for you to do the thing that matter instead of the things that don’t.

8. Tip: Will my Desire to Complete a task Increase the more I put it off?

9. Step 2:
Balance the Structured & Unstructured.

10. Spend X amount of time on fresh projects
and X amount of time on your current ones.

11. Tip:
Think: What is taking up most of your time?

12. Step 3:
Shift your
PARADIGM to
Progress>
Deadlines

13. Instead of putting a DEADLINE on EVERYTHING,
Assess what is urgent and what can wait

14. TIP:
Communicate with superiors, peers,
and family members. Find out from
them what they need your help with
and when they’ll need it

15. Step 4:
Don’t Be A Hero

16. “being known as a problem
solver is a good thing. But
when people start looking
at you to put out their
fires… that is different. They
will keep coming back and
you will soon be an
expected service.

17. Tip:
Clear expectation & have
Consistent follow-ups are
the key to slacking
coworkers.

18. “You teach people how to treat you, so respect others and
respect yourself enough to take back control of your schedule”
- Elizabeth Grace Saunders

19. Let’s Recap

20. 1. Just say “NO!”
2. Balance the Structured and Unstructed
3. Shirt your PARADIGM to Progress > Deadlines
4. Don’t Be a Hero

21. Make Your Time Count

23. Want to Know More?
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