How to Manage Your Busyness

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By Althea DeBrule
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Busyness

Every person has a maximum of 16 hours in a day for work, play and other responsibilities (assuming 8 hours of sleep that doctors recommend). Many people are acutely aware that their lives are out of balance. The marketplace requires that more be done with less and that it must be better than last year or the year before. To successfully control and manage your time, consider these solutions, and spend some time contemplating and analyzing the value-add of “busyness” including the highs and lows, drawbacks and consequences.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Managing Your Busyness Tool
Career Journal

Step 1

Busyness Tool

Scroll down to the “resources” section of this article, click on the first link and download the Managing Your Busyness Tool.
Step 2

List the routines and usual ways you perform tasks and arrange daily activities. Rate the degree of busyness each one causes from low to high.
Step 3

Record the directional changes you make in your life on a regular basis (job changes, relocation, education, etc).
Step 4

Describe how you utilize your physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual energies for maximum effectiveness without burning out?
Step 5

List the coping strategies you use to de-stress your work and life.
Step 6

Busyness Wheel

Using what you collect from the previous steps, plot your current level of busyness on the “Busyness Wheel” (included in the packet you downloaded in step 1).
Step 7

Develop 12 strategies you will use to balance your personal busyness.
Step 8

Describe how you will arrange and organize your activities to reach your desired time management goals.

Tips & Warnings

Keep your sense of humor. A sense of humor helps you to keep things in perspective, “A merry heart is good medicine”. A good laugh now and then is therapeutic and releases endorphins—natural stress relievers.
Refuse to get bogged down in a rut. Try new approaches to your work, relationships or life in general. Be deliberate in your selections—choosing creative activities that do not require an outpouring of additional energy.

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