Project Mapping Provides These Opportunities to Save Time

The key to this time management training idea is to quickly get everything that’s important for the project down on paper. Begin by writing a project name in the center of your horizontally placed paper. Please recognize that this isn’t an exercise that requires neatness or beauty. Rather it’s an exercise that gets all your important thoughts down in one place for quick reference and easy organization.

Now that the project is in the center of the page you want to start filling in around the project. You may want to put the project name in a circle or box to make it stand out on the page. Next make another box labeled “the big benefit”. Draw arrows from this box and write out the big benefit that results from the completion of this project. You will find that occasionally when you evaluate the potential benefits of a project before you even start, that you find the project isn’t even worth doing, and then you save yourself a whole lot of wasted time, effort, and resources.

It’s always a good time management training practice to evaluate the bad consequences of not doing something. Make another box labeled “bad consequences” some where on the page. Now draw arrows from the box and write out the things that would happen if this project doesn’t get completed or completed on time. The funny thing is that most of the time you are more motivated to avoid the really bad things than you are to enjoy the really good things.

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