Recording Your Time and Writing a Daily Report
When you do a task, record the time you spend on doing it. Write down the schedule of your daily tasks in the To-Do list you have prepared. In your report, write down the unplanned tasks that you do. Write down the beginning and the ending time of each task and make it clear whether it was already scheduled in your daily plan or not. By doing this, you will gradually get the hang of scheduling your tasks and you will write down your plans more realistically and more logically.
A daily report is a good means to determine success in time management. Write down what task you have started today, how much time you have spent on it, and what mood you had while doing it, whether you were nervous, happy, confident or jittery. Finally, rate the accomplished tasks based on the ABCDE rating. For example: on Saturday morning, the 29th of June, at 10 am, I did the bank-related stuff prioritized as a B task. It took 40 minutes and I felt great while doing it.
After a certain amount of time, read this report and see what you can learn from it. Analyzing it helps you know yourself better and get ready for planning future tasks. You can also realize which tasks could be eliminated or delegated to others.
Allocate a realistic amount of time for each task. You must never consider a long time for a simple job to the extent that you will have to keep postponing it. Also, don't allocate a small amount of time for a difficult project so you'd have to stay on schedule by going through a pressuring process.