Directing Personal Time Management Effectively To begin personal time management, it will be good to look at first on how much time is really available for us and having a good grasp on how much is that time worth. Everyone has 168 hours to spend every week. If you are like most of us, taking away the time required for sleeping and rest, personal hygiene and grooming, time needed for meals and snacks, travelling and other personal necessities will leave you with 90 hours for the week that you can divide for work and leisure. And yet if the college student is to be a professional some day, this is also one of the best advises that they have to take. The following is a simple illustration on how time blocks should be assigned to ensure that time divisions are set for the achievement of basic goals. The Two Main Hour allocation Fixed/Given Time = 113 hours every week. We are trained to be smart. You and I It is different though when you are hearing it for the first time or while you are already on this page, you want ideas to be reinforced. The fun thing is, your idea may just be as good as mine. We all have that at the back of our heads, unwritten, unspoken and often unheeded. You may also get a recommendation from time management training centers and websites. For a purpose, I am not making here recommendations on time management books. Reviews you see are either opinions of the reviewer, are paid advertisements or worse are both. Time management books are good references but they can not substitute for the formal learning and interaction provided by time management outfits whether join them online or in the classroom and delivered live by a speaker that is respected. Typically, time management software's contact manager lets you view everything on one screen that eliminates missing out on other data that usually results when those are on another screen. Real time sharing and easy networking is its common features. They are easy to learn, can be installed and uninstalled immediately for quick cleanup. Start with the most important and unpleasant then work you way down. The things that you think is not really needed immediately and not important can be done as the day wore on and if you have the time. Assign work time frames for each. Assigning work time frames for each task, even if it is not so realistic at first can give you a good idea later on regarding the a more realistic approach.