Time Management Deck Flashcards
You want Straight A’s? Those Straight A’s start with Time Management. What are the 3 Straight A’s of Time Management? (Dierdoff)
Awareness, Arrangement, and Adaptation
What’s Dierdorff’s analysis of his article’s time management study?
Dierdoff analyzed a study of more than 1,200 individuals, less than 1% of people self rating overlaps with their time management abilities.
Define Awareness in Time Management (Dierdoff)
Thinking realistically about your time by understanding it is a limited resource
Define Arrangement in Time Management (Dierdoff)
Designing and organizing your goals, plans, schedules, and tasks to effectively use time
Define Adaptation in time management (Dierdoff)
- Monitoring your use of time while performing activities
- Adjusting to interruptions or changing priorities
Which feedback avenues can help accurate self-awareness of your time management skills? (Dierdoff)
- Microsimulations
- bosses and peers
- Establishing a baseline for behaviors against which gauge improvements
Does your personality matter in time management? (Dierdoff)
No, it doesn’t. What matters are skills. They are the greatest return on investment of time management not personality.
How do you prioritize the time management skill you need to improve? (Dierdoff)
By focusing on developing the most pressing skill need first.
In time management, What is the difference between effectiveness and efficiency? (Dierdoff)
- Effectiveness is about doing things well
- Effectiveness is about doing things fast
What is TM?
Time Management
TM Awareness Skills: how do you find your peak performance time?
Break over your day into 3 to 4 timeslots over a week. Take note of the ones in with your most productive
TM Awareness Skills: You should Treat your time like money. how do you do that?
Create a time that budgets how you spend that in a week.
TM: what is timing up?
Record how long you’ve spent on tasks instead of how much time you have left
TM Awareness Skills: How do you realistically evaluate how you assess time?
After finishing a project evaluate how long it actually took vs how long it you thought.
TM Awareness Skills: When should think about the sunk cost fallacy?
Think about this when you’re spending too much time on something. This is since it might be outweighing the benefit of even doing it.
TM Arrangement Skills: What plans should be prioritized?
Activities and obligations
TM Arrangement Skills: How do you avoid the Mere Urgency Effect?
Understanding that not all tasks are both urgent and important.
TM Arrangement Skills: What is an important task?
Important tasks have significant and long term consequences.
TM Arrangement Skills: What is an urgent task?
A task that needs to be completed immediately
TM Arrangement Skill: What should you use to time manage?
Use a calendar app, put things down as they arise.
TM Arrangement Skill: How does one Schedule Protected time?
- Make calendar appointments for your most important project moments
- Plan the specificities needed to purely focus on one task during a time block (I.E. muting phone, taking dog on walk before hand)
TM Arrangement Skills: How do you reduce underestimation errors?
Ask a neutral party for feedback on your plans.
TM Arrangement Skills: When struggling to attain a goal that seems too difficult, what can you do?
Set a much less difficult version of that goal
TM Adaptation Skills: What is Habit Staking
Tie your time management behaviors to habits you already exhibit
