Ever feel that there is not enough time in the day to get things done? Do you often feel time-pressured? Have a problem with procrastination or figuring out how to prioritize your days? If you said yes to any of these questions, then you should know that you are not alone. You fall into the category of millions of people under time associated stress. Much of your stress can be alleviated through effective time management. Although you may feel that you are not a good manager of your time, there are strategies that you can learn and apply to your life in order to gain more control of the use of your time. Follow the following 6 tips and begin to live life like its smooth sailing!
Become a Great Writer
You’re probably asking yourself, ‘What in the world does being a writer have to do with time-management?” Well, that’s a great question and I’m glad that you asked. The answer is EVERYTING! Effective time management begins with planning your time, which means WRITING down your plans on paper. There is power in the pen! There are literally thousands of thoughts that race through your mind throughout the course of the day. In order to focus your time on what’s really important requires you to have something tangible to look at. That requires you to decide now to write down every task you will need to accomplish. This not only includes on the job tasks, but at home stuff also. Remember, write, write, and write!
Schedule Your Priorities
Effective time-management begins with scheduling and anticipating upcoming activities and events both personally and professionally. This is where goal setting will assist you enormously in prioritizing what is on your schedule of things to do. Setting written down goals will help you to differentiate between what is urgent and vital, what can be done now and what can wait.
Invest In a Planner
I find that a daily planner is a very effective tool in helping you to become a better manager of your time. I would suggest purchasing a weekly-at-a-glance planner and then write down everything you need to accomplish in it. I like the weekly planners as opposed to the daily planers because you can open it up and have your entire week in front of you at one time. You can simply transfer your already written down goals to your planner in addition to the on-the-job tasks that you must fulfill.
Write a “To Do” List
Sometimes you may have more on your plate than you’ve bargained for. Writing a “to do” list will help you to overcome your feelings of being overwhelmed. When you find yourself to be extremely busy or unexpected things pop up, take the time out the night before to write a “to do” list. Decide in order of priority what things you absolutely must get done and by what time. Write it down and do it.
Learn To Say “No”
This is a difficult task for some people. Some people do not want to be perceived as a non-team player or make others feel that are not important enough to do favors for. Trust me; your peace of mind is not worth sacrificing to appease others. Remember, you cannot be all things to all people and you cannot do everything that everyone asks you to do. That type of mentality will drive you to a nervous break down. Keep in mind that you are saying no to the request and not the person. Mature people can accept when you truthfully are not in a position to accept any additional projects at this time.
Learn To Delegate
There will be times in your life both on the job and off when you will need to enlist the assistance of others. This is simply wise decision making. When you simply have too much before you to do, consider what things you can pass on to others to do for you. Most people really do not have a problem giving a helping hand to others when the need arises. You are human and sometimes you have more to do than what is humanly possible. Utilize the services of others and by the same token, be ready to assist others in their time of need.
So there you have it folks, 6 tips to help you have more smooth sailing days. Utilize the suggestions and you will definitely be able to enjoy your time much more instead of wondering where time has gone without you feeling productive. Plan and prosper!
Archive for July 5, 2008
Effective Time Management
Mind Power: Tame your Mind to better Your Life
One of the more interesting aspects of the Law of Attraction is found in it’s teachings. Essentially, it teaches people how to think and not what to think. This process of learning how to think helps the practitioner to focus the mind. Many people discover that focusing the mind, helps improve their life.
The Secret that took the world by storm did a great job in introducing the universal Law of Attraction, and the possibility of anyone acquiring great material possessions. And there’s nothing wrong with that.
It’s not wrong to be well fed, well clothed, drive a nice car and live in a nice home. If you create a feeling of self that’s capable and worthy, you’ll attract what you want. You can take care of yourself as well as others.
The main points of the Law of Attraction are to be grateful for the things you have in your life. To improve your life by focusing your thoughts on the positive things instead of the negative.
There are many people that see the Law of Attraction as a deeply religious experience. Connecting them to others and to a higher power.
The numbers are just as large that consider the Law of Attraction spiritual but not religious. Religious or just spiritual, the results are the same: To change our way of life for the better through the change of our thinking.
Even if you consider the Law of Attraction as neither religious nor spiritual, the benefits are the same. You are what you think. Your thoughts are manifested into reality and you definitely wish to get the most out of life with the Law of Attraction.
Short cut To A Successful Marriage
As far as I could understand no one enters into marriage intending it to end. No one thinks that will happen to them.
You wanna be?
Yet you’d have to be a supreme ostrich not to have some awareness of the odds of your marriage lasting “‘til death do you part.”
So here are a few keys to increase your chances of your marriage being one of the successful ones. (You know the kind: when the press asks you on your 80th anniversary, “What’s the secret of a successful marriage?”)
Successful Marriage Key 1 – Know Your Outcome.
Ideally, you should do this before you propose or accept the proposal, but it’s never too late to change!
Ask yourself, (not your beloved – yourself!), what kind of relationship suits you.
For example, whilst equality may be one of your ideals, if you’re scrupulously honest with yourself, are you actually naturally drawn to being dominant in other areas of your life?
If you’re bossy at the office, (even if you’re not the boss), the leader and motivator of your social group, it’s unlikely you’ll be happy being a mouse at home! If that’s your personality type, for you to have a successful marriage, choose a spouse who’s happy being led by you.
On the other hand, if you’re comfortable being the deputy, and you’re a great organizer as long as someone ’s told you how they want their filing cabinet sorted or their garden to look, then you don’t want a mousy partner if your marriage is to succeed.
Are you extrovert or introverted in nature? Are you optimistic or pessimistic? How resistant are you to change like moving house or career change?
Give yourself a personality workout. It’s these kind of characteristics far more than “interests in common” that make a couple compatible.
If you’re already well into a marriage by the time you read this, at least you know where to look, (inside yourself!), for where the causes of any struggle might lay. Once you get some clarity about this, have a really deep and honest conversation or ten with your spouse.
Successful Marriage Key 2 – Learn Each Other’s Language.
It has been said that only 7% of communication is verbal. The old chestnut of “my wife doesn’t understand me” – the almost cartoon excuse for an extra-marital affair – isn’t going to wash in the twenty first century.
The main reason that couples don’t understand each other is because they don’t know each other’s language. I’m not talking about what you say in words.
You each will have codes. Facial expressions, tones of voice and of course, codes of conduct. These are behaviors each of you will have grown up with. I know of at least one couple whose marriage suffered badly in the early days because whenever they argued the wife would leave the room, whilst the husband was yelling “Don’t you dare walk out on me!”
It turned out that he had grown up in a family who believed that no matter how big or bad the disagreement, you stayed until it was resolved. His wife, on the other hand, grew up in a family where it was considered the ultimate insult to dignity to be shouted at, and you simply didn’t stay in a room where that was going on.
Once they discovered this, they were able to at least come to some agreement about how to disagree!
Successful Marriage Key 3 – Dare to be honest.
It sounds simple but this can be the toughest one of all because every one of us has fears that if “you knew X about me, you wouldn’t like me.”
We all have them because no one gets through childhood without ever receiving some kind of message that parts of us are not perfect. We are reminded that it ’s rude not to say thank you, impolite to belch publicly and so on.
Then there are social, moral and religious codes that we are “obliged” to follow, not to mention legal rules. Most of us, at times, walk tightropes on some of these areas of life, and a few of us have even been known to cross the odd line from time to time. (No one I know ever has, of course! But I’ve heard the rumours).
But the more you are prepared to “psychologically unpack” with your nearest and dearest, the more you’ll build up trust between you, but there ’s a much more important result to this.
You’ll feel more loved, because you’ll discover that the parts of you that you yourself had thought unacceptable, even unlovable, are now accepted and cherished as part of you by the person who matters to you most.
In return, you’ll love her or him all the more for loving you.
Now who’d want to leave a marriage like that?
Its opposition to the deal is still a mystery
Inod-US Nuke deal
The BJP’s opposition appears to be motivated more by the fact that the deal was completed by the Congress rather than any serious objections to the deal itself. If the BJP is a party with a difference, this is the time to prove it by looking at the deal in a larger framework of the national interest rather than by trying to score political debating points.
The BJP initially tried hard to nitpick on the details of the deal, but has recently focused on the right to test as the key issue, arguing that the deal would prevent India from conducting future tests. This is a false claim: nothing in the deal says that India cannot test.
There may be consequences if India tests, but even this has been minimized because under the conditions of the deal, the US will have to take into consideration whether India was forced to test because of circumstances such as nuclear tests by India’s neighbors. Moreover, if India conducts a test, it will have to face some international opposition irrespective of the signing the deal or not.
It should also be noted that the vast majority of the BJP’s constituency comes from the middle class, much of which supports the deal. The Left’s opposition to the deal may help it to solidify its base, but the BJP’s position is actually driving a wedge between the party and its core support base. Repeated statements from the BJP leaders that they have no objections to closer Indo-US ties only makes their position on the nuclear deal more confusing to their supporters.
Even Brajesh Mishra, the National Security Advisor of the Vajpayee government, and someone, who initially opposed the deal, has now endorsed it. But the BJP refuses to, arguing that while an individual could change positions on policy issues, a political party cannot.
This is stubbornness, not consistency. If it is truly a party with a difference, the BJP can start by proving it by changing their position on the nuclear deal.
Outsourcing Market In India
GetFriday, Bangalore
India’s Outsourcing Revenue
India has revenues of US$10.9 billion from offshore outsourcing and US$30 billion from IT and total outsourcing (expected in FY 2008). India thus has some 5-6% share of the total Outsourcing Industry, but a commanding 63% share of the offshore component.
Why India?
Productivity and growth can somewhat be called the teaser benefits of outsourcing and the country at the number one spot that provides these two is India. All over the United States and the United Kingdom, India is the preferred destination for outsourcing assignments. In recent researches, forty four percent of the world’s offshore outsourcing back office and software services are in India. It has also been noted that as many as 400 of the Fortune 500 companies have their own branches in India or are outsourcing to India utilizing Indian technology companies.
Processing knowledge
What makes India such a hot spot for outsourcing jobs?
1. Skilled Labor – India has a myriad of skilled people that are very available in the country. The highly skilled work force in India provides not only high quality service but also other added services that are very valuable. An added advantage, which puts India on top of the list, is the ability of the people to speak in English. It boasts of being the 2nd largest nation to have the most number of English speaking citizens thus companies based in the United States or the United Kingdom opt for outsourcing in India.
2. Huge Labor Force – Because of this vast number, India can afford to trim down the cost of services without having to cut down on quality. Just by looking at the list of companies that have back office operations in India one will truly understand and believe this. Airlines such as Lufthansa and British Airways outsource their ticket reservation in India. HSBC and GE outsource accounting in India. Dell and Microsoft outsource research work in India. Standard Chartered has its full back office operations for its global business in India.
3. Government Support – Another reason why India is an outsourcing hot spot is because of its government policies. Because of the support it gives to the outsourcing industry in the country, the government and its policies have ensured the growth of outsourcing in India. As of today, its value as an outsourcing destination has reached high status.
4. Stable Democracy – The stable democracy that India has been experiencing for the last six decades gives India an advantage in the outsourcing industry. The country’s GDP rate of 9.2 percent, ever improving infrastructure and its status as a country that provides high quality of service, and rapidly developing technology makes it a hot spot destination for outsourcing.
5. Global Recognitions – Five Indian cities are among the top 10 global emerging outsourcing destinations with Chennai topping the list. Among the top 10 cities, Hyderabad is ranked at the second position followed by Pune (3rd), Kolkata (5th) and Chandigarh (9th).~~~~~
