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2. SCHEDULING YOUR DAILY ACTIVITIES

Do you remember the good old days when you were

back at school and your entire day was governed by

the timetable? Six or seven subjects had to be
covered within the constraints of a school day and

the timetable functioned as the schedule.

Basically, the academic day was chopped up into
half hour slots and the range of seven subjects was

neatly allocated to specific times of the day so that
the syllabus of each specific learning area was

adequately covered. Without the structure of a

schedule or timetable, there would be no accurate way of determining whether
or not each subject had been given an adequate time allocation.

Just as in the above example, scheduling in the workplace allows you to

control the workflow and streamline operations in your work at your desk to

maximise efficiency. Because productivity depends on good tools and
effective environments, and on using them both well, it is vital that precious

time is not wasted.

To be effective, you must schedule time to actually get the work done. That’s
the reason why most New Year’s resolutions usually expire or evaporate just

a few days after the close of the festive season. People commit them to
memory, but not to paper. What gets scheduled usually gets done. What gets

postponed usually gets abandoned.

How to develop a schedule according to established business practices:

Here are some examples of scheduling:

Drawing up a timetable for completing a project. This may be anything

from building a house to implementing a new computer system.

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