Stress Free Living – 7 Signs You're Experiencing Time Management Stress

Living stress free requires time management skills.  The most difficult part of time management is to resolve that you actually do want to manage your time. In life, you quickly learn that your days fill up incredibility fast. You find yourself hurried and rushing to do all that you have on your to-do list. Constantly putting out fires, dealing with last minute crisis, and taking care of the unending details leave you little spare time for anything else and quite frankly exhausted and unable to think clearly.

If you never seem to have enough time to get anything finished you might feel constant, chronic stress. Have you ever seem to notice an hour might fly by like it’s five minutes or crawl by like it’s three hours. Sometimes your workday is over in a flash, and sometimes it feels like 5:00 P.M. when it’s only 11:00 A.M.

Fortunately, managing your time more effectively is something you can learn. Maybe you don’t experience time-related stress. Let’s find out. Take a look at the following list and check off what seems to describe you.

1. I feel that I don’t have enough time for myself, my family or my friends
2. I feel I waste too much time
3. I find myself always rushing
4. I find I don’t have the time to do the things I really enjoy
5. I find I frequently miss deadlines or late for appointments
6. I find I procrastinate too frequently
7. I virtually never work with some type of priority or to-do list

Stress Free Living- 7 Signaling You’re Experiencing Time Stress

Checking off one or two items on this list indicates your time management skills require a tune up. If your time is organized and you are able to devote your full concentration to one task at a time, times seems to expand in quantity and quality. You get something finished. You feel a sense of satisfaction. The time won’t creep by, like it does when your enduring something painful.

Learning how to manage time efficiently takes some practice, but if you have a plan, time management is easy.

1. Begin Small
2. Identify your time management issues
3. Concentrate on your top three
4. Just say no
5. Let it go

You can begin living stress free today.