Strategies and Personalities and Time Management

The marketplace is swarming with topics on time management and few include personality types, which amazes me, since our personalities play a large role in time management. For example, we have disabilities, spontaneous, and so-called normal individuals, so how can one article tell us how to manage our time? Extensively I studied human behaviors and learned that all of us are different in more ways than science or researchers can explain. None of us has all the answers, but some of us can lead you on a path to time management if the right words fall into place. In addition, if we have an idea of what type of person we are, then we are well on our way to finding the solution for managing time. Time is complicated, since the bible shows us that one day to God is a thousand years. Moreover, man has his own ideas of time. So therefore, when time is used, we must ask ourselves, “Is it used wisely.” We can start by looking at our personality to determine which plan works better for us in managing time.

Personalities:

From beginning of time we all were created with our own personality type, and some of us went astray with the misguidance of researchers, experts, and so on. The basic rules were laid out however, when experts, philosophers and researchers set out to determine what types of persons make up the world. Taking for example the spontaneous personality type, we can see it differs from the neatly type. The spontaneous types often are unorganized, and fail to plan. Spontaneous individuals have an advantage since the focus on one day at a time vs. living each day on a schedule. The disadvantage is that the spontaneous individuals suffer throughout their life, since a time management plan is not in view. In order to cultivate a neatly individual, you would need to work with the personality type, by allowing them to act as themselves, but manipulating a neatly view in the plan. Spontaneous individuals require the need to be free and loose. So therefore there desks are most likely going to be free and loose: papers flying everywhere. To put a spontaneous individual in order, is allowing the person to work multi-tasking projects, which often benefit these types the best. If the person is multi-tasking, he or she is putting time management in focus. Still, the focus is there, but the plans are not in action, so therefore it pays to stay focus of your own individuality to find out what works best for your personality type. There is no single plan for these types of individuals that work the best. The neatly types have very little problem in time management, yet they have problems in other areas. Some of us may see them as perfectionist, but in fact, the neatly types are compensating. Regardless each personality type has its own individuality and learning your personality is the open door to a successful time management plan.

Strategies to Time Management

Strategy is a planning ahead to achieve a specific goal. Some of us plan a time management scheme for one or two years, while others plan five or ten years. In college, we were taught to manage our time according to long-term and short-term goals. The short-term goals are five years, so in this article we are going with the college teachings that were provided to me. I personally do not believe that anyone has the authority to plan, since tomorrow has no guarantees, but stepping aside from my beliefs, I noticed that when I do plan, organize and strive to manage my time, I find life is easier. At the same time, I watched as my plans fell apart at the seams, so today we are going to plan a strategy and add a backup plan.

Backup Time Management Plan

Ok, we have the plan laid out, and we do not see any future complications. We show up at work as usually and follow our list we have written to instruct us which task is most important to achieve first to reach our goals. Things are running smoothly! In the next half hour, the boss runs up and tells everyone go home, there is a horrible storm about the hit. The next day you come to work and find the company in chaos. What are you going to do? Do you have a backup plan? After you lay out your plans to manage your time, your next step is to layout a backup plan that supports your original strategic planning. Today many companies store their important documents on computers. This is fine as long as you have the files labeled accordingly. Some companies even back up their files to a storage medium, either in another computer on site, or else on discs or tapes. The tapes sometimes are stored in an off room on the premises. Bad deal! When that building is hit by a fatal storm, causing disaster what are the chances of those vital files surviving. The key then to strategizing to manage time is to send those documents to a storage medium off the premises and at least 50 to 100 miles away from the area. I studied backup, I do backup, and I backup, and know that the importance of backup data is VITAL to managing time. If you have a smaller company there are disaster backup plans that can meet your needs, but be alert that some of these disaster backup plans are ‘low end’ plans. The programs are for those of us with a single or a couple of computers, rather those large companies that often have a mainframe computer as the central communicator. The source provides a minimal source for storing checklists as well as storing company information. But again, if you do not have your data stored off the premises your backup time management plan is in trouble. While there are many solutions or methods for strategizing a time management scheme, no scheme is bullet proof unless your plans are backed up!