Time Loss Factors

Accepting too many jobs at the same time

Passing responsibility on to others

Changing your priorities without having a valid reason

Not disciplining yourself

Putting off making decisions

Being confused, disorganized

Being too organized, too systematic, too particular

No delegating jobs, or not doing it well

Not letting others you're responsible for work on their own

Not establishing your priorities

Not setting standards for yourself

Being often tired

Not being able to say no

Rarely, or never, spending time planning

Not knowing how to set up a good working team

Being often interrupted

Lacking the authority to carry out your responsibilities

Not having precise goals

Having trouble concentrating

Not being well informed

Lacking method when dealing with routine, daily problems

Not being motivated enough

Only taking your authority seriously when there's a crisis

Liking meetings

Frequently changing the order of your documents

Not having a daily agenda

Having old-fashioned working methods

Having conflicts in your schedule of activities

Having personal conflicts

Being insecure

Not communicating well

Not having a good filing system

Not being in the habit of listing things you have to do

Often putting things off that should be done today

Having a too active personal life

Involving too many people in your decision making

Writing too many emails or notes

Having a lot of projects that don't get past the planning stage

Making and getting a lot of unnecessary calls or emails

Spending too much time on the phone or emailing

Sometimes doing jobs of no value

Writing things that could be written by others

Adapted from The Complete Time Management System by Christian H Godefroy and John Clark