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Estimating task length

Estimating task length

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Estimating task length

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- Do you find it's a challenge to estimate how long something is going to take? In my course "Time Management Fundamentals," I suggest that people schedule time in their calendar. Well, that means that you're going to have to estimate how long something is going to take but what if you thought that it was going to 30 minutes to accomplish something and it really took an hour? What do you do in that situation? Here are a few tips first to keep that from happening and then second, what to do when it happens. First, keep in mind that estimating time is like a muscle. I have seen many clients get better at it over time. If you feel like you need more help with it, start by using a timer, whatever you're going to do next, use that timer to estimate how long it's going to take and play a game. Let's see if you got it right. The more you practice doing this, the better you're going to get at seeing how good you are at…

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