Time Management impacts all areas of one's life and relationships suffer when a person has bad time management skills. Respect, trust, dependability are impacted. People lose respect for an individual when promises are made and broken because tasks are not getting completed when they are committed to be done. Trust is impacted in the same manner and so is your dependability factor.
Whether they want to or not, people avoid counting on a person who has demonstrated the inability or lack of dependability to achieve a task in a timely manner. This takes away a basic foundational aspect of a personal relationship... trust. Over time this can be very damaging to personal relationships. When trust in one's ability to deliver on commitments is lost it bleeds into multiple areas of the relationship and becomes muddy water under the relationship bridge. This can build up, resentment can begin to take hold and believability is impacted on a grander scale.
This can happen at work or home.
Further impacts extend to more hours at work and less at home or the alternate can happen as well, more time spent at home which means less at work. Both of these can result in job security at multiple levels. This can then impact the financial bottom line and it is widely recognized the number one reason for break ups is financial.
Aside from the personal relationships, a person with poor time management skills often feels the weight of the world is on their shoulders, that they are unable to catch up, and many times they give up. Better to not try at all then to try and fail... this is not a comfortable place to be in. I'm writing this because I've been there. I know how poor time management skills is harmful to relationships because I went through it a long time ago and it is a tender reminder in times of need to motivate me to remain an effective time manager.
Being effective at time management isn't super difficult. It requires a person to create a process, stick to the process and resulting schedule, and re-evaluating every week to make sure you're on track. The hard part is getting into the habit of the process, scheduling, and follow through but once you've broken past that process you'll find in general you achieve more, you're more focused on the future, you have more time to balance home and work life balance, and people in your life will have more trust in your ability to keep your commitments.
There are many resources available online to developing effective time management. Coaches are great resources to help you develop time management skills more personalized to your needs and keep you on track with your goals. I work with many clients in this area.
I also offer great online courses about time management, goal planning and action planning which are all intertwined at an intricate level. Check them out below.
- Become an Effective Time Manager 101
- Design your Desired Future: Analyze, Self-Discover, and Create a Starting Point on Your Success Path
- Design your Desired Future: Short and Long Term Goals
- Design your Desired Future: Prioritize and Downsize Goals to Create Effective Action Plans
- Design your Desired Future: Action Plans, Setting it all In Motion
Anyone of the links above also has a referral to receive three months unlimited access to Skillshare (an online learning platform with over hundreds of classes taught by hundreds of teachers) for only $0.99. If you want to get started right away at becoming an effective time manager, are looking to work at your own pace, or want to learn coaching tools without going to a coach then these classes are a great resource.
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