110: Time Management

Questions about the Video File:

1. What does RAC stand for? What does it help you with?
2. How can you record your daily activities?
3. What are you supposed to highlight in your record?
4. How can work stress be minimized?
5. What does work stress have to do with your home life?
6. What are the three ways that can make you a better time manager?
7. What’s wrong with multitasking?

General Questions:

1. What was the last thing you were doing right before this session? Was it really necessary or helpful?
2. Are you good with tight deadlines? Do they make you stressed? Do they turn out to be problematic?
3. When was the last time you missed an opportunity because you didn’t have time?
4. Do you ever plan your day/week/month/ year? How much time do you put into planning it? To what extent do you meet your plans?
5. What takes the largest proportion of your time on a typical day? Do you enjoy it?

Related Quotes:

• “Either you run the day or the day runs you” Jim Rohn
• “Plan your work and work your plan” Napoleon Hill
• “Proper planning and preparation prevents poor performance” Stephen Keague
• “Time is what we want most but what we use worst.” William penn
• “The way we spend our time defines who we are” Jonathan Estrin

Related Idioms and Expressions:

1. Chunks of time: a part of time, usually a large one
   • Plan big chunks of your time first, then look for smaller activities to fit into smaller chunks
2. Blocks of time: a part of time with clear start and finishing point
   • Divide your day to 16 blocks of time simply one for each waking hour.
3. Spend time on something: use time doing something
   • Don’t forget to spend some time on planning.
4. To kill time: to waste time by doing something useless or nothing
   • Are you really watching that nonsense movie or just trying to kill your time?
5. Time flies: time passes quickly
   • Time flies when you’re with friends having great time.
6. Round the clock: 24 hours a day
   • Some people enjoy working round the clock
7. Upset someone’s plans: to ruin someone’s plans
   • Mary’s unexpected presence upset all my plans for finishing my assignment before the holiday.

Related Words and Phrases:

1. Feel/be in control of: rule someone or something
   • When you plan your time you certainly feel in control of your life.
2. Dive in: to start doing something suddenly and energetically
   • Dive in things that make you feel more positive.
3. Progress (v): continue gradually
   • Take care of the level of your energy as the day progresses.
4. Prioritize (v) to decide what is more important to deal with first
   • Prioritize your to-do list to avoid missing important tasks.
5. Declutter (v) to remove unnecessary items from a place to organize it
   • Declutter your office as well as your home to feel organized everywhere you are present.
6. Multitasking (n) the ability to do more than one thing at the same time
   • Human brain is designed for multitasking in many aspects that allows us to survive.
7. Procrastinate: do something at a later time because it’s unpleasant or boring
   • He definitely has the habit of procrastinating important but unpleasant tasks.
8. Schedule (v, n) plan and arrange activities to happen at a certain time
   • Schedule your big goals by breaking it into smaller ones.
   • The new schedule really includes all the aspects we have discussed in the meeting.

Please leave a response to the following question as a comment: 

Do you consider yourself a good time manager? Please elaborate.