Personal Management – A Key to Success

It is not only important to understand the significance of personal management or at least this article is not ideally meant for the purpose. The aim of this article is to help you figure out how small and easy steps can help you with better personal management that will consequently lead you to your desired goals.

There is one assumption that we make before moving further; personal management is as important and as vital to success as strategic management. The reason why this is safe to assume is because it is a well-managed person who leads to a bigger, organizational success; hence, the person has to be managed first.

Coming back to our objective of making it happen, there is one change in perspective that is vital to growth and success; today is all I have to make it happen! This does not mean that we start believing that there is no tomorrow but rather what it implies is to be as productive and valuable as s/he can be on a particular day. Once you are on the path of productivity with distractions minimized, here is what the easier part is.

Peter Bregman, who is an adviser to many CEOs and their teams to tackle priorities, suggests the following:

1.       Set Plan for Day: Before you start your day, sit down, relax, sip your coffee and set a plan for your day (writing it down is preferred). This should help you in listing down the things and filtering out what to prioritize and otherwise.

2.       Focus: Follow the list. Check your list every hour to evaluate how productive you have been the last hour. The aim of this exercise is to help you re-focus on the tasks you prioritized, filtering out the distractions.

3.       Review: At the end of every day, review your list to find out how productive have you been today to check and mark your success on the right lines. This should help you for a better tomorrow.

Why we at Nixon University believe that this area needs greater emphasis is because Time and Personal Management are becoming more of an art in the modern day scenario and thus it is imperative to manage yourself better and making full use of the time that you have.