By tracking your time and understanding where it's going, you can identify areas where you can make more time for what's important both personally and professionally. (Shutterstock) By tracking your time and understanding where it's going, you can identify areas where you can make more time for what's important both personally and professionally. (Shutterstock)

Too many time management systems, however, focus on setting up complicated labels and lists for your to-do items, with complex flowcharts designed to help you choose what to do when. In practice, it always seems to be a bit much to stick with.

Although having a plan, priorities, and a to-do list is important, you must first understand time in a much broader sense before you can begin divvying up how you spend yours.

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