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Five Effective Methods of Time Management - By: venturiwang

Time management is essential in our high speed, always-on culture, yet most advice you will find on this article is very vague. ¡°setting goals¡± and ¡°making time work for you¡± are, um, great, but so are practical efficiencies, because oDesk is home to thousands of self-starting contract workers. We have seen many efficiency tricks.
The headline promises five steps for time management, but they all come from one single principle: You can only do one thing at a time, so do it right.
Finish what you have started, this is the core idea.
Where possible, working a single task to completion is more efficient. When you sit down, spend a few minutes just getting ¡°settled in¡± before you are productive. If you jump from task to half finished task all the time, that¡¯s a lot of minutes lost to ¡°rolling up your sleeves¡±
Think small.
You can¡¯t always speed several hours to working straight through on a single big job, don¡¯t think in those terms. Use a simple to-do list, and take each item to completion without interruption, unless something is literally on fire. An example for job-seeker: it ¡®s not ¡°I will look job this afternoon,¡± it¡¯s checking emails for replies to previous applications. Scanning preferred job sites, writing cover letters, and tweaking your resume for each solid lead, etc.
Quit stalling.
Once you¡¯re organizing by simple components, it¡¯s easier to dive right into the small tasks. It takes a lot of warm up and deep breaths before you jump off a high-dive and we are not hesitant about walking down a flight of steps.
Play well with others.
When you¡¯re working as part of a team, make sure you¡¯re prioritizing what you do to get the most important parts into production line. Nothing will be worse that having people standing around you to waiting for you to produce. In a job search, prioritize anyone who is waiting to hear from you, hiring managers looking for self-starters (and who isn¡¯t) will appreciate and remember you promptness.
Analyze our output.
How could you have been more efficiency? How much of your time goes to trivial, mundane work rather than the challenge stuff you enjoy and that your boss values? Job seekers, log the time you spend at various job sites, and count how many real leads that effort yields. This way you can reprioritize your efforts for high value results. Why are you still lurking on the job board dried up two years ago?
This is a multitasking world, and there¡¯s no changing it. But when a dozen things are clamoring for your attention, you can still manage them in your terms.

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