{"id":103765,"date":"2015-11-04T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/103765\/juicy-tidbits-time-management\/"},"modified":"2015-11-04T09:16:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T07:16:29","slug":"juicy-tidbits-time-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/opinion-edition\/2015\/11\/04\/juicy-tidbits-time-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Juicy Tidbits \u2013 Time management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life is nothing if not a delicate balancing act.<\/p>\n<p>However, this balancing act is often easier said than done.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>As a journalist working on a breaking news story or even a weekly deadline, when the week has been full of appointments and unexpected setbacks, time management is of the utmost importance.<\/p>\n<p>But I wanted to see if there was a more effective way of managing my time other than my \u201cTo-Do\u201d lists and occasional flat panic.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Some replies to my question posted on Facebook:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Malinda Markham said, \u201cI work with two kids around me. Tackling time management is a joke.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Tiffany Oates said, \u201cPrioritising is what works for me.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Claire Jean Erasmus said, \u201cI prioritise what is important and work logically through what I have to do. Have to work clever too. Ignore the unimportant things.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Suzanna Muka said, \u201cI procrastinate!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Michelle Jordaan said, \u201cRoutine, routine, routine, and sticking to it. Being disciplined and prioritising things will equal success.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Saskia Janse van Vuuren joked, \u201cI deal with the issue of time management with haste.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seems that routine and prioritising are the fan favourites when tackling a work load, I suppose the next question in a long list of work tasks is\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>What is more important?<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='c2c7ffbead20a173f41e55773c10a930'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To procrastinate or not to procrastinate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":103766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8518,6],"tags":[1166,8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730],"class_list":["post-103765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-opinion-edition","tag-blog","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Opinion","SubCategory":"Blogs"},"tag_labels":["blog","community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}