4 Ways to Enhance Time Management in 2025
So, your alarm clock blares after you hit snooze for the 3rd time on a Monday morning. Work needs you by 9 am, but you groggily roll out of bed a quarter till. Yes, you get there on time, just barely, since you skipped breakfast and drove over the speed limit. Or maybe you’re cramming a project into the last few hours before it’s due when you had two weeks to complete it beforehand.
Does this sound familiar?
If the answer is yes, don’t fret—we have 4 effective and life-changing tips to enhance your time management. It’s common for time to slip away and for plans to be more prolonged or shorter than expected but, through the uncertainty, you can evolve and adapt to the demands of the ticking clock.
One thing to ponder: Is this snowball effect avoidable?
1) Time Blocking
Have you ever found yourself daunted by the 24 hours of the day? In theory, we have all that time, but in practice, different priorities and commitments slice right through those hours. But with time blocking, you’ll divvy up tasks throughout the day. Todoist defines time blocking as, “a time management method where you divide your day into blocks of time—kind of self-explanatory, right?
Meet Lily. Lily must prepare for an important presentation tomorrow, respond to a never-ending list of emails, and meet up with her friends for dinner. With 24 hours (give or take) knocking at the door, she takes a deep breath and opens an excel spreadsheet. She types out all the hours of the day and allocates, or blocks off, time for her various tasks. So, from 8:00- 9:00 am she’ll get ready and eat breakfast, from 9:00-10:30 am, she’ll work on her presentation, and continue to block out time as so. Lily finds that her tasks aren’t whirling around her since she sets boundaries for when she’ll work on each one. Bonus, she’s fully relaxed while hanging out with her friends all thanks to time-blocking!
2) Reclaim.ai
DIY is great, it’s rewarding even, but sometimes blocking off your tasks yourself can be pretty taxing. That’s why we suggest Reclam.ai! This interactive and innovative app tracks your analytics like tracking how much time you spend on tasks every week. With this info, it uses AI to auto generate a time blocked schedule that works best for you!
So, maybe Lily forgot she signed up for Reclam.ai two weeks ago, and decided to check out what kind of schedule they generated for her with her presentation and other tasks in mind. She finds that schedule to be effective and dives right into it!
3) Intentionality
You never felt so proud after time-blocking your schedule for the week perfectly! However, on a lovely Monday, you’re going a few hours over the marks, causing the rest of your day to unravel at the seams. You become so frustrated you nearly trash the entire idea of time-blocking and perhaps time management, too! But, your 2025 goals remind you that time management was in your top 5! So Instead of erasing the idea, you sit at your desk and deliberate over your schedule and make adjustments that work for you! The pressure lifts as you realize it’s okay to struggle; changes can always be made while learning new methods.
Intentionally is a foundational step to efficient time management. Google defines intentionality as “the fact of being deliberate and purposive.” Can we break that down more? Absolutely! As much as you consider what obligations and tasks you must fulfill throughout the day, and how much time you block out for them, you must be intentional about practicing these skills. Even if that’s setting mini goals for yourself like sticking to your time-blocked calendar for a full week, that’s a step in the right direction!
4) Pomodoro Method
Not a big picture person? You see the forest is full of trees, shrubbery, and so on? Then you’ll love the Pomodoro Method.
Imagine you have a PowerPoint presentation due by the end of the week. Your work is cut out: research and filling in the slides. Let’s not forget your assortment of daily tasks simple as eating lunch or taking your dog for a walk. As you stare at this mountainous presentation you think about the Pomodoro Method you’ve been wanting to try. So, you make a list of steps it will take to complete the project and assign 25 minute intervals to complete them. You spend 25 minutes on finding sources, 25 minutes compiling the info into slides, and so on. Most importantly, you take 5 minute breaks in between and extend them after four 25 minute intervals (todoist). Although you don’t complete the presentation in one day, the mountain turns into a foothill you merrily roll down thanks to tiny intervals The Pomodoro Method consists of.
This method emphasizes working on tasks in “bite-sized” time intervals, generally 25 minutes per task and taking breaks in between. Also, the task can be one huge project where you take smaller steps to chip away at.
So, to return to our question earlier: is this snowball effect avoidable? Absolutely, through methods and resources such as Time-blocking, Reclaim.ai, Intentionality, and Pomodoro Method, you can manage your time well in advance to be well prepared!
Eager for more positive change in 2025? Check out this 12 week Chaos to Clarity Journal: a self-reflection journal designed to inspire change and cultivate healthy habits; most importantly, learn more about you!
SOURCES:
https://www.todoist.com/productivity-methods/time-blocking
https://www.todoist.com/productivity-methods/pomodoro-technique
