Time Management can always be tricky especially when you cannot anticipate the things that might affect your day. Often, there are factors that change the way we want our lives to roll out.
Especially with the pandemic affecting the entire world, it is very vital that we get structure incorporated in our daily lives since the new normal right now is to work from home, not just for safety but convenience as well.
I have been working from home even before the pandemic so not much of my schedule has been affected. I am a Social Media Specialist.
Here are some of my 3 most important Time Management Tips that are guiding me through every week. Of course, these are flexible and are always changeable whenever there are emergencies or other stuff unexpectedly happening in my life.
MAKING SOCIAL MEDIA CALENDAR AND STICKING TO IT
After closing with a client, I transcribe everything that we have discussed in the discovery call. What the client wants as contents in their business, posting schedules, and consistency of postings. This is very vital to manage the client's expectations, as well as to not get sidetracked with posts from others. The hardest part of coming up with a Social Media Calendar is coming up with contents for the entire month.
Ideally, a Social Media Calendar should contain all your supposed content for the whole month. It should serve as a guide for when you are in a creator's block.
CALENDAR BLOCKING
Calendar blocking is very simple. It's taking your calendar and using the blocks/events to space out time for all of your routines, work and social events. Essentially taking your calendar and blocking out every hour block to totally co-ordinate the day ahead.
TIME BATCHING
Time batching is a time management technique that includes grouping similar tasks together and setting aside time to complete them all or work on them until a predetermined point of progress. The purpose of time batching is to minimize distractions for a workflow that enables concentration, attention to detail, and productivity.
I time batch according to what I will be doing for the week. I entirely work from home (I MISS TRAVELLING!), so that will mean do I need to go out or not. If yes, I need to look presentable, I will schedule selfies, photos and/or filming or whatever that would need me to be presentable on those days. If not, I can just throw on my pajama, with my bare face and focus on content creation and blog posting on those days.
But since everything can be delivered now and I don't have to out anymore for any government transaction (The PH government announced a "bubble"), I won't schedule anything for the filming day.
