Paul, Jeremy
Professor Olvera
Strategies for Academic Success
07 Oct 2011
Personal Mission Statement After reading and analyzing the thirteen steps of the emotional intelligence skills I have discovered two specific goals that I would like to work on to become a better leader and more confident in my own abilities. The two areas I’m going to talk about are time management and self-esteem. I chose these two areas because I recognize their importance and my deficiency of these skills in my personal leadership arsenal.
Time management is the act or process of exercising conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase efficiency or productivity. Time management may be aided by a range of skills, tools, and techniques used to manage time when accomplishing specific tasks, projects and goals. This set encompasses a wide scope of activities, and these include planning, allocating, setting goals, delegation, analysis of time spent, monitoring, organizing, scheduling, and prioritizing. Initially, time management referred to just business or work activities, but eventually the term broadened to include personal activities as well. A time management system is a designed combination of processes, tools, techniques, and methods. Usually time management is a necessity in any project development as it determines the project completion time and scope. Time management strategies are often associated with the recommendation to set personal goals. These goals are recorded and may be broken down into a project, an action plan, or a simple task list. For individual tasks or for goals, an importance rating may be established, deadlines may be set, and priorities assigned. This process results in a plan with a task list or a schedule or calendar of activities. Authors may recommend daily, weekly, monthly or other planning