How to use this Insight on One Page worksheet:
Give yourself about one hour of quiet, uninterrupted time to complete this worksheet.
Print this page to get your worksheet and instructions (printer friendly). Write your
initial answers in your journal or on a separate piece of paper and then
summarize your main conclusions on the form below. Read about how to get the
most out of "Insights
on One Page." Below is your guide to completing each of the boxes.
The links offer resources to encourage deeper answers.
Time Management Process on One Page
Manage the time of your life!
Time is so valuable because time
= life. Are you making the effort to improve how you use it? Now is your
chance. Quickly get a snapshot of what steals your time. Reduce energy
drains that drag you down – the incompletes, unmade decisions, and habits
and obligations that are not meaningful. See how you can use your time more
wisely.
- Write in Box
1 what’s most important to you. Where do you most want to direct the time of
your life? (If you don’t know, then complete
Goal Setting Process on One
Page.)
- Look at the different aspects of your life: job/career, home maintenance,
family, parenting, health and fitness, care-giving, friends, volunteer work,
relaxation, recreation, religion and spirituality, learning and self
expression. Where do you spend too much time? Which areas do not receive
enough of your time? Ideally, how much time would you give to each? Note
your insights in Box 2. (For more direction, use the
Dream Calendar tool.)
- What wastes your time? (Review our
100 Time Wasters.) What drains your
energy? (Review our Energy Leaks list.) Write the top 5 problem areas in Box
3.
- What have you been procrastinating? Which goals have not been achieved?
Which tasks remain incomplete? Write them in Box 4 and reflect on why you
haven’t completed them.
- In Box 5 write down activities you can let go of by delegating,
discarding or delaying them.
- Where do you need to say ‘no’ to people who ask for or claim your time?
How do you regularly sacrifice your own goals to meet someone else’s needs?
Write your responses in Box 6.
- How can you protect time for what matters most to you? Book time for
yourself to work, reflect and review on your daily dream calendar and make
notes of these times in Box 7.
- How can you be more efficient? Explore our
150 Time Saving Tips and write
the top 5 time saver ideas for implementation in Box 8.
- In Box 9 create an action plan to take constructive steps to take back
the time of your life.
Alternative Steps:
Go back and check out our other Processes on One Page.
Time Management on One Page Date: _______
1. What’s
most important for my life? |
2. What
needs more time? Less time? |
3. What
wastes my time? What drains my energy? |
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4. What have
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5. What can
I let go of? |
6. Where do I need to say “no”? |
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7. What times of the day can I protect for
myself? |
8. How can I
be more efficient and effective? |
9. My action
plan |
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