Time management skills can allow you more time with your family and friends and possibly increase your performance and productivity. This will help reduce your stress.

To improve your time management:

• Save time by focusing and scheduling time for yourself. Take time each week to review your calendar for the week and set time aside to complete your priority tasks.
• Keep a record of how you spend your time, including work, family, and leisure time. Using a free time tracker like Clockify is perfect for this.
• Prioritize your time by rating tasks by importance and urgency. Redirect your time to those activities that are important and meaningful to you. If you want to spend time with the family, make sure you list that as top importance.
• Manage your commitments by not over- or under committing. Don’t commit to what is not important to you.
• Deal with procrastination by using a day planner, breaking large projects into smaller ones, and setting short-term deadlines. Bite off small chunks each day of larger tasks or projects to feel more accomplished.
• Examine your beliefs to reduce conflict between what you believe and what your life is like. Review what is actually realistic for you to accomplish.
• Build healthy coping strategies. It is important that you identify your coping strategies. One way to do this is by recording the stressful event, your reaction, and how you cope in a stress journal. With this information, you can work to change unhealthy coping strategies into healthy ones-those that help you focus on the positive and what you can change or control in your life.