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Top Ten Tips for organizing your time

The ‘Ready for a Change?’ campaign has been launched by Pitman Training in Cardiff to help women claim back their confidence and get ahead in the world of work. The training centre has put
together a package of fact sheets which provide lots of top tips for taking control of your life and achieving your career goals.
“Learning a new skill can be a really positive step towards changing your life,” says Leanne Waring from Pitman Training in Cardiff. “But our confidence and self-esteem depend on a variety of factors - from our qualifications, or lack of them, to the way we look and feel about ourselves.”
Personal time management plays a part in everyone’s life and our failure to organise our time can result in stress and frustration. “How often do you realise that you’ve run out of time, missed a deadline or simply can’t cope with all that is being asked of you?” continues Leanne. “As modern life gets increasingly hectic we seem to have more and more tasks to do, either at work or in our personal lives, and less and less time to do them.”
“One way to deal more effectively with this situation is to stand back and look at the way you organize yourself and see if there are ways to improve what you do or find new ways to create more time for some of these tasks,” says Leanne.
Margaret Burnside is Managing Director of the Centre For Personal Development Ltd, an independent training, coaching and development organisation.
Pitman Training asked Margaret for her Top Ten Tips on getting organised.

Top Ten Tips for organising your time

Plan your time: don’t let it control you.
Make appointments with yourself in your diary
Select your personal and work ‘best’ times to get things done and plan to do your most important work then.
Break a big task down into smaller, more manageable chunks.
Use a ‘To Do’ system – identifying deadlines, priorities and outcomes.
Write it down - don’t try to keep your ‘To Do’ lists in your head.
Leave some time for the unexpected.
Stop being the ‘nice guy’; all the time - learn to say ‘No’.
Do one thing at a time – focus – don’t ‘butterfly’.
Finally, Plan, Plan, Plan, what you have to do, who is going to do it, how it is going to be done, where it is to be done, by when it has to be done, why it has to be done.

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If you organise yourself more effectively in these ways you will have more time to do something well rather than less time to do lots of things badly!
The first step for any new Pitman Training learner is a confidential session with a training advisor so they can recommend the best course to suit each individual’s personality, ability and aspirations.
Everyone who signs up for a Pitman Training course as part of the “Ready for a Change?”
Campaign will receive the full set of confidence fact sheets.

To find out about the Pitman Training ‘Ready for a Change?’ campaign please call Leanne Waring on 029 2034 2020 or visit www.pitmancardiff.com.