
suggests spending less time on activities that are not important (regardless of their urgency) to gain time for activities that are not urgent but important. While activities that are both urgent and important must be done, Covey et al. Covey, Merrill, and Merrill (1994) categorize activities into four quadrants in their Time Management Matrix: urgent, not urgent, important, and not important. However, we tend to let the urgent tasks dominate our lives. Experts agree that the most important tasks usually aren’t the most urgent tasks. Managing your time effectively requires a distinction between what is important and what is urgent (MacKenzie, 1990). Many apps exist to help you keep track of your time, as mentioned in Strategy 3. Having a good sense of the time required for routine tasks can help you be more realistic in planning and estimating how much time is available for other activities. Identifying your most time-consuming tasks and determining whether you are investing your time in the most important activities can help you to determine a course of action.

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Have more free time to do the things they want.Have more energy for things they need to accomplish.People who practice good time management techniques often find that they: It must be protected, used wisely, and budgeted.

Much like money, time is both valuable and limited.

How you use that time depends on skills learned through self-analysis, planning, evaluation, and self-control. You may often wish for more time, but you only get 24 hours, 1,440 minutes, or 86,400 seconds each day. You cannot manage time you manage the events in your life in relation to time.
