Get Organized & Balance TimeGet Organized & Balance Time

By: Sumera MuhammadBy: Sumera Muhammad

Getting Out of BalanceGetting Out of Balance

Ignore your health Postpone family time Don’t plan your financial life Stay away from intellectual development Let your social contact decide your future Let your professional life just happen Avoid spending time in your spiritual area

The Zen of OrganizingThe Zen of Organizing

Become aware of your surrounding Create a plan Simplify Less paper De-clutter and group Investing in organizational products Celebrate your accomplishments Maintenance

3 Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity, from discord find harmony, in the middle of the difficulty lies opportunity. -Albert Einstein

No-Fuss, Affordable Ways to No-Fuss, Affordable Ways to Contain Your StuffContain Your Stuff

De-clutter Group like items together Re-use and recycle Use the space you have efficiently Appropriate solution for each room

--living room, bathroom, bedroom, kitchen Streamline your approach Find various solutions for long term and short

term storage Be creative

7 Habits to Ensure You’re Being 7 Habits to Ensure You’re Being EfficientEfficient

Efficiency is “the state or quality of being efficient; competency in performance or the accomplishment of or ability to accomplish a job with a minimum expenditure of time and effort

2. Schedule your day3. Prioritize-Prioritize-Prioritize4. Multi-task small projects and details5. Say NO more often6. Delegate as much as possible7. Organize8. Control your procrastination

Organizing Your KitchenOrganizing Your Kitchen

Today’s women spend on average of 1,092 hours a year in kitchen

Identify kitchen zones--food preparation zone, serving zone, baking zone, cleaning zone, meal planning zone, etc

Invest both time and thought--Consider your cooking habits, kitchen flow and areas of convenience

Sort, then purge Assign everything a home

--Things that work together should be stored together

Clever Storage Ideas for Small Clever Storage Ideas for Small Living QuartersLiving Quarters

1. De-clutter2. Time to organize3. Rethink storage4. Creative counter-

space5. Think up

1. Think double duty

2. Mount up3. Hooked on hooks4. Bathroom

storage5. No linen closet?

No problem!!

One Dozen Travel Smart TipsOne Dozen Travel Smart Tips

1. Start early2. Call ahead3. Apply the 50% rule4. Use a packing list5. Take an empty

suitcase6. Make a schedule

1. Carry one on2. Bag it3. Bring games for

kids4. Safety first5. Play catch up6. There’s no place

like home

Outsmart Procrastination 1-2-3Outsmart Procrastination 1-2-3 So how do you eat an elephant Try completing a task immediately Reward yourself when you complete a task or a

series of tasks Create a to-do list Create a schedule and set deadlines If possible, do the worst, most difficult or

uncomfortable task first and get it out of the way

Whenever possible, eliminate distractions Goal visualization Use a timer No one and nothing is perfect

Time Management Time Management Time management is really life management Women differ from men in their approach to

manage their lives In addition to balance their time, illusive

expectations permeate women in our society Super women syndrome Society does not encourage women to set

goals God created each of us with a plan-Greatness

Time Management (contd.)Time Management (contd.)

Meaning of our lives is tied to our contribution to society

Wisdom is the result of time and activity simultaneously producing a desired result

Our lives are composed of our days Teach me to organize my life so that I

can know when to do the right thing at the right time

You must find your own hidden treasure

How We Waste TimeHow We Waste Time

Lack of discipline Indecisiveness Personal disorganization Procrastination Inability to say “No” Poor delegation skills Day dreaming Worry

Time Waste-Caused by OthersTime Waste-Caused by Others

Telephone interruptions Drop-in visitors Unscheduled meetings Poor communications Confused chain of authority

4 Key Elements to Effective Time 4 Key Elements to Effective Time Management SkillsManagement Skills An accurate understanding of how long

task really take to complete---time your task, learn to say “no”

A single focus on the goal or task at hand

---don’t allow yourself to be distracted Efficient uses of small amounts of time

you don’t even realize you have More efficient ways of completing the

more mundane, but necessary tasks in your life

D-O-I-T N-O-WD-O-I-T N-O-W

D=divide and conquer what you have to do O=Organize your materials, how you will do it I=Ignore interruptions that are annoying

distractions T=Take the time to learn how to do things

yourself N=Now, not tomorrow. Don’t procrastinate O=Opportunity is knocking W-Watch out for time gobblers

Tips for Better Time ManagementTips for Better Time Management

1. Make a time diary2. Learn to say “No”3. Time-based, to-do list4. Let your computer help5. Multitask6. Don’t be a perfectionist7. Reward yourself

Doing a better job of managing our time is meaningless unless we are managing it to accomplish those things that are of greatest importance in our lives

Many people think too much of destinations and too little of preparations. They don’t realize that today’s actions will determine tomorrows achievements

A Final Thought on TimeA Final Thought on Time