Creative Time Management by Barkas

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Do you find yourself constantly preoccupied with too many things to do so you end up with many unfinished projects? Creative Time Management by J.L. Barkas is a very beneficial book when it comes to learning how to manage your time more efficiently so that one can still enjoy the more pleasurable things in life. Creative Time Management shows how to manage personal and work time, the obstacles to effective time management, how to become organized and more effective, how to improve your time at work, how to save time on household chores, how to improve your personal time management, and how time management works.

The first chapter shows how to manage your personal and work time. Barkas uses the "ABC Approach" to show how to manage your time effectively. "A" is knowing what you've got which means knowing what your current work and personal responsibilities are. "B" is knowing what you want which means having specific daily and long-term goals. "C" is using "A" and "B" so you get what you want which means that you apply the questions of who, what, where, when, why, and how to your thoughts and actions. Another way to manage you personal and work time is to set goals. If you don't know what goals you need

The final chapter deals with how time management works. The first part of how time management works is structuring time. Time structuring is broken up into four parts namely the nine-to-fivers, the self-employed, students, and homemakers. Some tips for students are to have an academic calendar that matches your schedule for the upcoming school year so that you can reserve the week before finals so you can have adequate time to study for all your tests.

The next chapter is concerned with improving your personal time management. The first topic of personal time management is recreation. It is unhealthy and quite stressful not to have any type of recreation in your daily and/or weekly routine. The next pertinent issue of personal time management is relationships, which usually deals with socializing, friendships, and making time for partners and children. Most people only socialize and spend time with their friends after work because there is not sufficient time to do so during a busy workday. When it comes to family a person should try to schedule maybe one lunch per week with his or her spouse so that there is a relationship during the workday, not just after work. The most crucial part of personal time management is spending time with children. If a parent doesn't spend sufficient time with his or her child the child is deprived of one of the most important ingredients of nurturing. There should always be time for your children. The final aspect of improving personal time management is improving communication at home. Communication problems can be solved by simply taking the time to understand, and change, the verbal and nonverbal cues that couples give each other, and if they work to improve their listening skills and their ability to give feedback.

Another topic Barkas covers is how to improve your time at work. The first step is understanding your work environment and most work environments differ from others. One way to improve your time at work is to become more efficient. For example instead of calling someone back the same day you could call them the next day if the call is not of great importance. Another way to improve your time at work is to have the ability to work well with others. Make sure you have good relationships with all personnel all the way up to and including your superiors. Work and school related goal

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Approximate Word count = 1584
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)

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