The Skills Needed For Better Personal Productivity And Time Management

Personal productivity is something that happens

, when we have a skill or gifts in certain areas of life. These areas are: learning, organization, time management, mental control, creativity, and decision making. All six skills are very crucial for keeping "balls turning" and projects going forward. They are all necessary to achieve results in today's competitive world. People have started to talk about downsizing in life, but productivity still rules. Let us have a little deeper look at the skills just mentioned, one by one.

Learning is important for personal productivity. Just think about all the new stuff and things we constantly need to learn, only to keep going in our everyday life. If nothing else, the user interface of Facebook has suddenly changed, and you have to learn that all again. Ways to learn more easily include faster reading, using mind maps, and for the more advanced also mnemonics (the art of memory tricks for better remembering).

With organization skills, we mean the ability to organize things physically. A structured approach to this often helps for better information retrieval. Questions like "Where did I put that important letter?", tend to be frustrating, and especially when you are in a hurry. Two good measurements for your level of personal organization are: 1) the size of your email inbox, and 2) the tidiness of your desk at work. You know what I mean.

Then we have time management skills. I classify time management as a sub-art to personal productivity. I say "time management" when I refer to managing tasks & email, calendar events, and managing procrastination. Skills in time management are key, as they relate directly to doing your work efficiently.

In order to get results, we also have to keep fit mentally. Stress will wear you down, if you are not careful. For this, there exists practices like mediation, but doing sports and meting friends will do as well. The point is this: even in the most hectic work situations, you should be able to keep calm. With a stable mind, this is easier to do.

Creativity is also needed for optimal personal productivity. Luckily there exists generic ways to solve problems, something we often need to do at work. It is unpleasant having to come up with a slide show to your boss on some specific problem, if you don't have solution ideas. Luckily, good ideas can be generated.

Last but not least we have decision making. We all know people who cannot make even the smallest decision, as they simply don't have the guts to do it. What do I say again? There exists tools to help persons like this.

Putting in some effort and studying the areas above will help your personal productivity. That is guaranteed.

by: Harri Jussila

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