I have now been on Steemit for about weeks and the I have now realised that I have a new problem in my life:Time Management
Before I joined Steemit I already had a problem with my busy life and now I am on Steemit whenever I have a chance!I find the platform amazing and I really enjoy the posts, stories and new ideas that are posted. I spend a lot of time reading and deciding what to upvote. I am a great believer that the good, honest posts deserves the recognition for the time people have spent to create the perfect post in their eyes. A lot of good content slips through the cracks. I always make sure I go down the Active and New pages as far as possible to find interesting and worthwhile content. We should actually all do this as I do not see any other way to give get more good content voted up.
Back to the Time Management.
My real job as a Business Development Executive in the ICT industry, is very time consuming. I sell solutions to problems for a living. This take a lot of time and I always need to be up to speed with the latest trends in ICT for corporates and the government sector. I read a lot, I mean really a lot, so Steemit is a natural extension to what I do.My problem is however that time is consumed at an incredible rate. Do you experience the same? If the answer is yes, my question to you is : How good is your time management?Time management is defined as The process of planning and organizing your time between specific activities. This enables you to work smarter and not harder :)This is however much easier said than done. In my life there are always things like tenders or new customers that always need assistance... like in yesterday, which confuses any management of time that I planned or organised.
This new platform is so exciting that it adds to the problem.
So I decided to implement some time management strategies, and I thought I will share it with those that are experiencing the same problem. I am not sure if the strategy is going to work, but I will provide feedback as I find things that work.
My current attempted time budgeting strategy is as follows:
Step 1 : Monitor time use for a week or so. Collecting as much data as possible. SO start keeping a record of what I'm doing every 20 minutes or so. Keep a chart, Excel Spreadsheet or whatever works.
Step 2: Examine the time used. Now that we have some data to work with lets analyse this. Categorise the information into sensible categories. Stuff like "work", "sleep", "social time", "meals", "tender response", "customer meeting", "STEEMIT READING", "Steemit Writing!!" etc.
Step 3: Add to a spreadsheet and Analyse the general pattern of time used. So answer a few questions. Is there something in the pattern that was not expected? What is not working well and what is?
Step 4: Go into more detail for the categories believed to be important.
Step 5: Examine the use of talents - We all have specific talents and specific things we HAVE to do. Make notes of these talents and things that I did not do.
Step 6: Look at the overall use of talents and talents not used.
Step 7: Ask the question : How do I really want to spend most of my time… I know the answer is to be on Steemit as much as possible…
Step 8: Do some problem solving. What things in life can be eliminated or combined? Could I watch a bit less TV? What activities can be combined. Example: Combine fitness time with family time?
Step 9: Do a reality check. - Easy to say I'm going to do something, but is it practically possible?
Step 10: Monitor for a while
Step 11: Schedule some time to review progress.Hopefully the approach to my new problem will help me free up some time in the long run to spend in Steemit! Thanks again to the steemit team.
I do not mind having this new type of problems.
If only I can have the time to do this on a more permanent basis.