by Paula Eder
Time management tips can be lifesavers in these transitional times. Your productive time habits provide essential traction, moving you forward on uneven ground. Every wise time choice frees more of your energy to develop your skills to greet upcoming challenges.

Wouldn’t you like to create a list of New Years Resolutions that builds on your successes last year? And what if it also reinforced all the time choices that make you feel like you are riding the perfect wave?

Here’s where you can start to put together a list New Years Resolutions you look forward to reviewing. No more guilt-inducing “should do” lists - just friendly coaching from yourself to get you where you really want to go!

Take advantage of this time to conduct a self-affirming assessment of your best time choices and your current strengths, as you prepare for this approaching year. By training your focus on your effective time choices in times of change, and cataloging your strengths that support your good time habits, you provide yourself with these three important benefits:

1. You establish a realistic basis for self-confidence when coping with sudden change.

2. You can use this self-confidence to support you as you create additional productive time habits.

3. You clearly identify which values and activities to prioritize when the rhythms of your life are disrupted.

There is a sound basis for this practice. It is well documented that in times of stress and unfamiliarity, people automatically revert to more rigid behaviors. By establishing your healthiest priorities in advance, in writing, you provide yourself with a customized “instruction manual” for crisis times.

Because these are times when others also operate under stress, it’s doubly important to chart an independent course. You will be able to avoid the snares of urgency, irritability and oversight, easing your relationships with others when they need your clear thinking the most.

This exercise helps you the most if you take the time to write down your answers so that you can refer to them later. Make a list of all your time choices for each category.

Transitional effectiveness list:

1. Time choices that maintain your health:

2. Time choices that maintain an adequate sleep schedule:

3. Time choices that maintain your fitness:

4. Time choices that maintain your support system of friends and family:

5. Time choices that allow you to flex, to meet unexpected challenges:

6. Time choices that maintain healthy eating:

7. Time choices that enable you to review and update your support systems, such as insurance, financial planning, and emergency preparedness:

8. Time choices that support your sense of well-being:

Time habits that build your effectiveness in times of transition are your anchor. By maintaining your fitness and connectedness to those you care about, you optimize your ability to exercise the focus, alertness, humor, and resilience to thrive and grow no matter what!

What is your next step to build your transition effectiveness?

Coach Paula Eder, Ph.D., The Time Finder, has 35 years of success helping individuals and small businesses align time with values. For free Time Templates + Tips, visitFinding TimeEnjoy our blog! TheTimeFinder

Article Source: PLJMagazine.com