| One of the best time management strategies | | | | his life at work so easily as to improve his home |
| begins at home with your family. Let's face it, | | | | life so drastically?" |
| your family is your foundation and it may consist | | | | The answer is, "It wasn't easy but it was well |
| of a wife and kids, or for a single person, friends | | | | worth the effort." |
| and family. In this article we'll peek into the life of | | | | The first lesson of Joe's time management |
| 27 year-old Joe the engineer, who has a wife and | | | | training course showed him how he had been |
| two children, and lives in the Silicon Valley. | | | | wasting a lot of time. After the first week of the |
| Joe the engineer had been neglecting his family. | | | | course Joe the engineer rearranged his schedule |
| He had been leaving early for breakfast at | | | | based upon the two hours a day he had managed |
| Starbucks-a coffee and a pastry-and had a habit | | | | to save. The amazing thing is that the changes he |
| of returning home late. The deadlines had been | | | | had made were all fairly simple and none of them |
| piling up at work and Joe was really getting | | | | caused him any more stress or added work. On |
| frustrated. | | | | the contrary, his stress level had been lowered |
| Joe sought some help in the form of a personal | | | | substantially. The hardest part of it was |
| time management training course that he was | | | | committing to the changes that he had made. |
| able to complete at home, with the help of his | | | | What were these changes? Believe it not the first |
| wife. The e-book course taught Joe how to | | | | one was to simply ask for help regarding a couple |
| better manage his time and the first thing he did | | | | of issues Joe didn't understand regarding a project |
| was to arrange his life so that he always returned | | | | at work. Once he did understand the issues then |
| home by 8 pm. From 8 pm to 9 pm Joe and his | | | | Joe had no reason to procrastinate so he got |
| wife worked on the time management course | | | | them under control. Once he got all his issues |
| and from 9 pm to 10 pm he helped the kids with | | | | under control he prioritized them. Once he |
| homework and read them stories at bedtime. | | | | prioritized all of his work issues he was able to |
| This caused smiles all around. | | | | dump some of them entirely. Once Joe got all of |
| You might ask, "How was Joe able to rearrange | | | | his work prioritized he saved two hours a day. |