Good Time Management is something many of us struggle with so here are eight tips to creating your time management list of “things-to-do”

Time management can only be mastered by creating and using a key master list. These eight simple tips on creating your own key list in order will help increase your time and your productivity:

1. Avoid using small pads and make your list on a bigger sheet. With plenty of room there will be no reason to leave anything off of your list.

2. Write everything down. Even if it seems so small and unrelated. If it must be done, then get it on your list!

3. Use a legal pad for additional pages. Do not use single sheets of paper. Many times it takes a lot of items to list down when we really clear out our mind of things to do. It is vital to pour everything on paper.

4. Cross off completed tasks each time they are finished.

5. Prioritize your list from the most important to least important.

6. Schedule the most important items to be done first thing in the morning each day.

7. Avoid rewriting your list everyday. This is only a waste of time.

8. Understand that this list is not something that has to be done in one day. Your list may be something that can cover the entire week or even the entire month.

If you subscribe to this list idea then you will see a marked improvement in your time management, but you must be consistent in your efforts.