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Foundations of effective time management

Foundations of effective time management

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Foundations of effective time management

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- There are two underlying qualities that you will need if you're going to be effective in your use of time. And these two personal qualities are assertiveness and self-discipline. If you think about it all of your time wasters are going to come from either other people using up your time in which case maybe you weren't assert enough, or they're going to come from you wasting your own time because you weren't self-disciplined enough. So all time wasters in the end come down to a lack of either assertiveness or self-discipline. So then the question is how can you be more assertive and how can be more self-disciplined? Where do these things come from? And the answer is they come from having clear personal goals or in many cases not having clear personal goals. So if you've got clear personal goals they will help you to focus and be more self-disciplined but also to be more assertive with other people when it comes to your time being wasted and that's why in the next section we're going…

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