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Time Management- Key Vocabulary- Part 1

Let’s split them up and find what you need to learn.

Take your time to learn some vocabulary in part one. Decide which expressions could be used in your talk. Most of them are used in the video clips you just watched.



1. Time wasters/ Time suckers:

Also time-suck, are activities that take a tremendous amount of your time while end up with low productivity or no result. Like in this example: it’s no secret that social media can be a huge time-sucking black hole.

 


2. Activities of lower (higher) value:

An activity that is considered as less important. Trivial tasks. Like in this example: your time can be spent for activities of higher value rather than scrolling down your feed on social media.

 


3. To allocate time:

If time is allocated to a particular purpose, it is used for that purpose. Like in this example: Work expands to fill the time allocated to it.

 


4. Productivity:

The word productive often describes a person’s capability to do a lot of work. So, productivity is the state of being productive and able to bring desired outcomes. Professionally, Productivity is commonly defined as a ratio between the output volume and the volume of inputs.

 


5. Desired outcome:

The final result  of an activity, process, or situation. Like in this example: The economic security of local families is a desired outcome of conservation.

 


6. Tangible goals:

A goal is tangible when you can experience it with one of the senses, that is, taste, touch, smell, sight or hearing. When your goal is tangible you have a better chance of making it specific and measurable, and thus attainable. Like buying a house. The opposite is intangible goals.


7. Ahead of the curve:

To be out in the front with a new idea, or a new way of doing something


8. Dip:

A dip is a slight decrease in the amount of something. Like in this example: I usually experience a dip in energy and focus in the evening.

 


9. To schedule something (first in the morning):

When you schedule something first in the morning, it is the first task you complete in the morning. Like in this example: I scheduled gym first in the morning, but I experienced a dip in energy after that.

 


10. A short spurt (of something):

A short spurt of something is the short period of time or duration of a task. Like in these examples: Do multiple short spurt of workouts spread across your day.  For short spurts of time, even crazy Aunt Gertrude is tolerable on vacation.