Here
is a story from the life of an architect,
Rushing through your workplace, on the way to
a meeting, with unorganized print outs after spending 20 straight hours in
front of your computer averaging 2 cups of coffee per hour. You are in all
likelihood suffering from caffeine high, merely you don’t realise it since you
have been surviving these submissions on coffee since design school. You show
up at the meeting a few minutes late and regardless of your obvious appearance
(after a 20 hour duty period) you manage to impress your guests, then once the
meeting is over you rush to yet some other task which is already behind
schedule.
Does this sound like a familiar scenario to you?
Even though you may bag a perfectly good
project in a state like this, it is not just your performance with other people
that indicates your time management skills it is likewise your own layer of
satisfaction and joy from work. A very common and easily spotted indicator or
poor time management is irritability and stress. It is almost impossible to
work with someone who is overly stressed thus degrading the working environment
for those around them.
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Inability
to manage time and your projects not only cause stressful, overworked,
unappreciative and unhealthy lifestyle, but it is also a basic formula to lose
your business. Poor time management can be established by one or several of the
accompanying symptoms:
1. Stress: If your work is not planned out properly and is
not given the time and attention needed, it is only obvious for you to undergo
strain. If you are stressing out about not being
able to complete a certain task or whether or not your appointment with your
client is confirmed, you are suffering from ineffective time management.
2. Missing Deadlines: It can be hard to
keep up with important deadlines when you're constantly putting out
fires. But when you notice you're missing deadlines consistently, you may
want to ask yourself if you planned well enough to accomplish this task by the
deadline?
3. Lack of Preparation: When everything is an urgent fire to
pose out, it's really easy to miss sight of your really important priorities. When this occurs, you will concentrate
on the urgent, not important, activities. No time is spent planning how
to prevent crises in the hereafter. As an outcome, the crisis just
continues and may become even larger.
4. Dissatisfaction: If after all your effort, you are not satisfied
with the end result and you keep thinking that a little more time and you could
have done a much better job, you are not good with managing your time.
5. Delay: If you build up the habit of setting away your
work for later and thus piling them up and straining over the amount of work
that needs to be taken care of. This
is a sign that your skills in managing time are not effective.
6. Overtime: Working overtime or more hours than you
initially expected or planned to; working all night ended a small detail of a
project due soon or a detail that you initially overlooked, are all indexes
that you necessitate to pay attention to your time-planning.
7. Addiction and Health issues: Other than constant stress, if you find an
addiction as a means to escape and/or develop health issues due to your
unfathomable hours of work it is possible that you are not managing your time
well and end up working in ways and times that can deteriorate your health
condition.
8. Deteriorating quality of work and a win for the other
designers: With stress comes the inability to execute quality work and thus
other designers, who are maybe better at bringing off their time, come in and
bag the projects that you spent hours developing your proposals for.
You must have experienced that these are some
symptoms which not only affects your professional but also the personal life. You
continuously feel stressed and uneasy. At this point, take some time off, and
catch hold of our questionnaire to key away your possible time-wasters and
habits. Download the Questionnaire: HERE
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