Importance of Time Management in Personal and Professional Life

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Time Management
ESSAY
Student
7/31/2019

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Introduction
In today’s competitive market, role concepts like basic human needs, wellness, time
management, interpersonal skills play crucial in establishing and preserving harmonious
relationships with the stakeholder. These factors have become essential for the survival of the
companies, as employees are the asset and their presence is crucial for the success of an
organization. Therefore, to sustain in the end, managers must promote interpersonal
communication skills on a professional and personal level and practice conflict management in
an organization (Farrell, 2017).
Moreover, maintaining a positive working environment in the organization will enhance
the productivity of the employees, which will result in the timely completion of a job, reduces
employee turnover, increase the coordination among the employees. All these factors contribute
to the achievement of personal and professional goals. Therefore, to understand the role concept
and employer’s behavior in a comprehensive way, the emphasis has been put on time
management (Mind Tools , 2019).
Question 1: Why did you choose the topic/video that you did?
Time is a key to success, but we hardly focus to keep ourselves on time, even we all have
24/7 hours to complete our task, however, we are not able to complete on time as we lack time
management skills, which result in confusion and overlapping of the task. Lack of management
skills affects our mental health and decreases our efficiency to perform better as we are not able
to divide time according to the task that requires urgent assistance (Vanderkam, 2016). The
motive of choosing this video was to understand the technique of time management skills so that

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I can effectively utilize every minute and invest them in achieving the task in a shorter period.
Moreover, time management will assist me to save a maximum of the time, which will increase
my concentration level at the workplace, and help in maintaining relations (Mangement study
guide , 2019).
Question 2: What were the important points emphasized? How does this correspond to the
course concepts?
To understand the concept of time management, I watched “How to gain control of your
free time” in which time management expert Laura Vanderkam explained that while focusing on
our priorities I could save ample of time, which can be easily invested to gain a bit of joy. She
further explained that everyone has 168 hours to complete the task and fulfill our commitments,
which are more than sufficient to bring changes in our daily routine of time (Adams , 2019).
Nevertheless, all we do is, waste is precious time over those things, which hardly matters to us.
It was the very energizing and motivating video for me as I learned how to identify my
prioritized goals and responsibilities on the personal and professional level. When I watched the
video a few sentences grabbed the attention that has given me the reason to introspect my
attitude towards my aims and responsibilities (Thomack, 2012).
 Time is choice: This line has highlighted the fact that every minute what we do and how
we spend is our choice, and rather saying that I do not have time to invest, it should say
that I do not like to spend my time in the activities, which are not priorities, and or
requires urgent assistance.
 We do not build the lives we want by saving time, we build the lives we want and then
time saves itself