Personal Time Wasters - Do You Know Them?
Time is the most valuable resource that every human being has. There is no way you can recover the lost of time. Therefore, we need to identify any time wastage before it is too late.
1. Watching television
According to statistics, the average American spends more than 4 hours a day watching television. This is a quarter of our day after minus off 8 hours of our sleeping time. It is good if we practice responsible moderation but sadly, most of us often watch whatever programs shown on television.
2. Internet surfing and social networking.
Recently, Facebook was been labeled a $5b waste of time. Internet surfing can be addictive and waste of time when we do not stay focus on what we want but simply follow all the links that are attracted to us.
3. Inability to Say No
Often, we will receive invitation from friends to join social functions, meeting, gathering or request for help on something or charities. Socializing is part and parcel of life and doing good deeds is commendable but we have to control and balance them with our life.
4. Unimportant Reading
Today, there are ton of reading materials (physical or soft copies downloadable from internet) available for reading. Instead of spending our time on quality and relevant books, majority of people spend their time on newspapers and magazines, which contain a lot of unimportant news, stories and advertisement.
5. Socializing and Chat-Chat
It is true socializing and chatting are part of our socialize life but without proper plan and control, it can chew up our personal time.
6. Indecision
The cause of indecision is fear of making mistake which lead to waste a lot of time in analyze the available information. The will be no result or output till we have taken our action. In summary, it is paralysis by analysis.
7. Procrastination
We try to delay or avoid a task fearing it will cause a mistake or criticism. A lot of time is been wasted for delaying the task until an action is been taken. "Time and tide wait for no man".
8. Disorganize
When our things are not in organized way, we will waste the time to find an item, recall any meeting or simply interrupt our work schedule. However, re-organize our work have to be done in moderation before it will turn into another time problem, perfectionist.
9. DIY
Some people prefer to Do It Yourself (DIY) type of work. If it is cost effective or it is your hobby, by all mean continue with the DIY, otherwise, it is advisable to outsource or hire other experts to work on it.
10. Do Not Enjoy Our Work
According to John Spalding, we will find time to do what we love to do. Time will be wasted as we may procrastinate when we want to work on the job that we hate to do. Either find a way to make the job interesting or change your job or career, rather than waste your own precious time.
Once you have identified all your time wasters, take immediate action to overcome or minimize them because you may delay the action but time will not.
1. Watching television
According to statistics, the average American spends more than 4 hours a day watching television. This is a quarter of our day after minus off 8 hours of our sleeping time. It is good if we practice responsible moderation but sadly, most of us often watch whatever programs shown on television.
2. Internet surfing and social networking.
Recently, Facebook was been labeled a $5b waste of time. Internet surfing can be addictive and waste of time when we do not stay focus on what we want but simply follow all the links that are attracted to us.
3. Inability to Say No
Often, we will receive invitation from friends to join social functions, meeting, gathering or request for help on something or charities. Socializing is part and parcel of life and doing good deeds is commendable but we have to control and balance them with our life.
4. Unimportant Reading
Today, there are ton of reading materials (physical or soft copies downloadable from internet) available for reading. Instead of spending our time on quality and relevant books, majority of people spend their time on newspapers and magazines, which contain a lot of unimportant news, stories and advertisement.
5. Socializing and Chat-Chat
It is true socializing and chatting are part of our socialize life but without proper plan and control, it can chew up our personal time.
6. Indecision
The cause of indecision is fear of making mistake which lead to waste a lot of time in analyze the available information. The will be no result or output till we have taken our action. In summary, it is paralysis by analysis.
7. Procrastination
We try to delay or avoid a task fearing it will cause a mistake or criticism. A lot of time is been wasted for delaying the task until an action is been taken. "Time and tide wait for no man".
8. Disorganize
When our things are not in organized way, we will waste the time to find an item, recall any meeting or simply interrupt our work schedule. However, re-organize our work have to be done in moderation before it will turn into another time problem, perfectionist.
9. DIY
Some people prefer to Do It Yourself (DIY) type of work. If it is cost effective or it is your hobby, by all mean continue with the DIY, otherwise, it is advisable to outsource or hire other experts to work on it.
10. Do Not Enjoy Our Work
According to John Spalding, we will find time to do what we love to do. Time will be wasted as we may procrastinate when we want to work on the job that we hate to do. Either find a way to make the job interesting or change your job or career, rather than waste your own precious time.
Once you have identified all your time wasters, take immediate action to overcome or minimize them because you may delay the action but time will not.