| Time management can make your life orderly and | | | | task into smaller parts is one way of organizing the |
| hassle free. Who wouldn't want that? However, if | | | | task itself. |
| you have noticed, people who manage their time well | | | | Rewarding yourself is also effective. A simple |
| are people who have the drive to finish a task and | | | | chocolate is enough for a task well done. If you do |
| prioritize what is really needed. And that is what we | | | | this, the task will be associated with the rewards and |
| call motivation, which is the drive that pushes us to | | | | it will be so easy to finish the task because of your |
| do a certain task. We can also call also it desire, the | | | | desire to get the reward. Other forms of rewards |
| force within that enables us to achieve what we | | | | after accomplishing something could be sleeping all |
| want. | | | | day, eating your favorite food, shopping, watching |
| What makes a person practice time management is | | | | your favorite television program, going out with |
| the fact that he is motivated to do the task. He | | | | friends, etc. |
| wants it to be perfect and to be systematic on what | | | | Having personal standards is helpful. Personal |
| he plans to do. Some people may apply time | | | | standards are like goals but much immediate. For |
| management but lacking motivation is like sailing a | | | | example in doing a project, set a standard on how |
| ship without wind, the wind is the motivation that | | | | and what you want the output to be like. For |
| pushes the ship who happens to be the person. It is | | | | example when you're working on a project about |
| difficult to imagine time management without | | | | writing an essay, set a standard like- to finish it in |
| motivation because it will be useless. People can't | | | | one day, essay should be 200 - 300 words, etc. This |
| bring themselves to follow the schedule because | | | | can also be called your personal criteria. Achievement |
| they are not motivated at all. | | | | of those personal standards will be quite intrinsically |
| Motivation can be in the form of reward like praise or | | | | rewarding. |
| material things. It can also come from within the | | | | Keep track of your goal. Schedules, post-it notes, |
| feeling of completeness when finishing a task or it | | | | planners can help monitor what you're doing. You can |
| can also be a simple striving to achieve a thing. | | | | also write the task and it's corresponding reward. |
| So the key to time management is motivation. In | | | | Another way of motivating yourself to work is doing |
| order for time management to be successful, the | | | | first what you like before working on a task. For |
| motivation issues must be addressed first. The level | | | | example, if you like playing computer games, play |
| of motivation in a person also varies like we have the | | | | first but set a time limit on the length of your playing |
| extrinsic motivation and the intrinsic motivation. In the | | | | time then after you finished playing proceed working |
| extrinsic motivation, the person is motivated because | | | | on your assignment. Don't push yourself to the limit if |
| of outside forces like the people around him, the | | | | it will compromise your health. You should enjoy the |
| expectation or the promise of a reward. While in the | | | | things that you do. |
| intrinsic motivation, which is the desire inside the | | | | Indeed, practicing time management is quite hard |
| person, he is motivated to do the task because it | | | | especially if you do not apply self-discipline. You |
| felt good. | | | | should be motivated intrinsically and extrinsically to |
| Here are some of the tips about time management | | | | succeed in managing your time. There are several |
| and motivation: | | | | ways on how to do that like setting goals and |
| Setting goals is one way of increasing your | | | | standards, rewarding yourself, keeping track of your |
| motivation. These goals must be specific and clear. In | | | | goals and doing first things that you like to do before |
| order to make a huge task attainable, break it down | | | | working on a task. |
| to smaller pieces. Once accomplished, it will bring a | | | | Once you start managing your time coupled with |
| feeling of achievement and it will motivate the person | | | | motivation, you can and will go on and on. |
| to proceed to the next smaller task. Breaking the | | | | |