Will 48 hours per day make difference?

Do you feel the need to be more organized and/or more productive? Do you spend your day in a frenzy of activity and then wonder why you haven't accomplished much? Do you think that 48 hours per day will make difference if you didn't change your habit? You will use more time in chatting, facebooking, "lim teh"-ing. To be more realistic, why don't we just learn about time management skills and just do it right now instead of dreaming "How good if there is 48 hours per day...".

Time management skills are especially important for university students, who often find themselves performing many different jobs during the course of a single day. These time management tips will help you increase your productivity and stay cool and collected.

1) Realize that time management is a myth.
No matter how organized we are, there are always only 24 hours in a day. Time doesn't change. All we can actually manage is ourselves and what we do with the time that we have.

2) Find out where you're wasting time.
Many of us are prey to time-wasters that steal time we could be using much more productively. What are your time-bandits? Do you spend too much time 'Net surfing, facebooking, MSN, reading email, or making personal calls? You can try tracking your daily activities so that you can form an accurate picture of what you actually do and where you are wasting time.

3) Create time management goals.
Remember, the focus of time management is actually changing your behaviors, not changing time. A good place to start is by eliminating your personal time-wasters. For one week, for example, set a goal that you're not going to take personal phone calls while you're working.

4) Implement a time management plan.
Think of this as an extension of time management tip # 3. The objective is to change your behaviors over time to achieve whatever general goal you've set for yourself, such as increasing your productivity or decreasing your stress. So you need to not only set your specific goals, but track them over time to see whether or not you're accomplishing them.

5) Use time management tools.
Whether it's a Day-Timer or a software program, the first step to physically managing your time is to know where it's going now and planning how you're going to spend your time in the future. A software program such as Outlook, for instance, lets you schedule events easily and can be set to remind you of events in advance, making your time management easier.

6) Prioritize ruthlessly.
You should start each day with a time management session prioritizing the tasks for that day and setting your performance benchmark. If you have 20 tasks for a given day, how many of them do you truly need to accomplish

7) Learn to delegate and/or outsource.
No matter how small your task is, there's no need for you to be a one-person show. For effective time management, you need to let other people carry some of the load.

8) Establish routines and stick to them as much as possible.
While crises will arise, you'll be much more productive if you can follow routines most of the time.

9) Get in the habit of setting time limits for tasks.
For instance, reading and answering email can consume your whole day if you let it. Instead, set a limit of one hour a day for this task and stick to it.

10) Be sure your systems are organized.
Are you wasting a lot of time looking for files on your computer? Take the time to organize a file management system. Is your filing system slowing you down? Redo it, so it's organized to the point that you can quickly lay your hands on what you need.

11) Don't waste time waiting.
It's impossible to avoid waiting for someone or something. But you don't need to just sit there and twiddle your thumbs. Always take something to do with you, such as reading your note of lecture, make daily planner.... Technology makes it easy to work wherever you are; your PDA and/or cell phone will help you stay connected.

12) Sleepless
This method is quite difficult for majority people, so I’m not going to discuss about it in this post. If you are interested, you can do research about "Polyphasic Sleep" or even "Dymaxion Sleep" to decrease your sleeping time exponentially without affecting your health (short-term... long term still don't know yet...).

You CAN be in control and accomplish what you want to accomplish - once you've come to grips with the time management myth and taken control of your time. You no longer need 48 hours.