Time is unlimited but your time is limited and you must use it in such a way that you can make the most of it. This does not mean that you must put your life on fast forward. Maybe instead of doing things as soon as possible, you should try doing them as well as possible. Everyday we meet people always on the run, even people who declare themselves beaten in the battle with time. Most of them also know the solution: time management training. But they do not have the practice or the patience to put time management techniques into practice.

It takes time to change one’s time management and there isn’t a unique method or the best method. There is the best method for you and you must permanently test until you find the best way that suits you. Everybody likes systems because we all assume from the very beginning that they work. But you have to create your own system, to adapt it to your own life and needs.

Here are the most used methods in time management training from which you can pick, or you can modify or even mix:

1. A to-do list of your daily tasks

2. Organizing them in Outlook

3. Using a diary for this purpose

4. Organizing your activities on categories such as:

- Urgent and important

- Urgent but less important

- Less urgent but important

- Less urgent and less important

5. Organizing them after the type of action: mails, phone calls, meetings, letters, etc.

6. The classical notebook, where you write the things you must do

7. Post-its of different colors which help you maintain a quick visualization

8. An online organizer (Google has one, or you might want to check out Joe’s goals), etc.

If you want to do something, you only have to start doing it. But to begin doing something means to finish doing something else. So it is a question of choice. We are permanently choosing and more than that, we always evaluate the importance and urgency of the things to do. The key to this whole concept of time management is self-discipline and persistence. You must stay motivated, must stick to your goals. This means that time management training implies a practical approach because you must focus on the practical issues and also that you must commit to change. If you want to read a book, the first thing to do is to open that book.