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Time Management Games

Are you utilizing your most valuable resource efficiently? Are you wasting too much of your time when you ought to work? These are a few questions which need to be answered to analyze how we spend our time. The following time management game will help you tell how well you manage your time.

Answer these questions by marking any one answer.  (Please be honest; this time management game is for you not for anyone else. No one will know your answer except you.)

1. Each day I set aside a small amount of time for planning and thinking about my job.

• Almost never. 1. Sometimes. 2. Often. 3. Almost always

2. I set specific, written goals and put deadlines on them.

• Almost never. 1. Sometimes. 2. Often. 3. Almost always

3. I make a daily ‘to-do’ list and arrange items in the order of their importance.

• Almost never. 1. Sometimes. 2. Often. 3. Almost always

4. I keep a loose schedule to allow for a crisis and the unexpected.

• Almost never. 1. Sometimes. 2. Often. 3. Almost always

5. I delegate everything I can to others.

• Almost never. 1. Sometimes. 2. Often. 3. Almost always

6. I am aware of the 80:20 rule and use it while doing my work (80:20 rule says that 80 % of your effectiveness will come from achieving only 20% of your goals)

• Almost never. 1. Sometimes. 2. Often. 3. Almost always

7. I try to handle each piece of paper only once.

• Almost never. 1. Sometimes. 2. Often. 3. Almost always

8. I eat a light lunch so that I don’t feel sleepy while working

• Almost never. 1. Sometimes. 2. Often. 3. Almost always

9. I make an active effort to keep common interruptions away from me.

• Almost never. 1. Sometimes. 2. Often. 3. Almost always

10. I am able to say no to others’ request for my time when I am busy on some project.

• Almost never. 1. Sometimes. 2. Often. 3. Almost always

To get your score, give yourself:

3- For ‘almost always’
2- For ‘often’
1- For ‘sometimes’
0- For ‘almost never’

Add up your points to get your total score. If you scored:

0-15: Give some thought on how to manage your time

15-20: You are doing Ok but there’s room for improvement

20-25: Very good

25-27: Excellent

28-30: You cheated!!!

This is just one of the time management games which test how you manage your time. There are many more insightful time management games which can even tell you the areas where you can improve. These games are designed with a lot of discussion and keep in mind the requirements of different categories of people. Like for example there are different games for people who work at home while the game differs for those who work at office.

Often, such games give you an insight into aspects on which you need to work. You should take such time management games or surveys regularly to see whether there has been some improvement in how you manage your time. Our time and work can be better used and organized if each of us assertively takes charge of those things that are getting in the way of our productivity. These time management games help us in identifying those things and then we can work on them.