"Careers are made or broken by the soft skills that make you able to hand a very large workload," says Merlin Mann, a very famous editor of the productivity blog 43 Folders.

Tips For Managing Time:

Don't leave email in your inbox. Rather go for folders to make it more symmetric.
"The ability to quickly process and synthesize information and turn it into actions is one of the most emergent skills of the professional world today," says Mann.
That is why it is always best to organize email in file folders. If you think that you still need to think more on the issue of a particular message then move it to your to-do list. If it's for reference, print it out. If it's for a very important meetind, then as a reminder, move it to your calendar.
"One thing young people are really good at is only touching things once. You don't see young people scrolling up and down their email pretending to work," says Mann.

Multitasking is bad.
The fact is that for a lot of students typing out instant messages and doing homework all at the same time, multitasking is deadly.Here I am talking about all those who have not growm up watching TV. But it decreases everyone's productivity, no matter who they are. "A 20-year-old is less likely to feel overwhelmed by demands to multitask, but young people still have a loss of productivity from multitasking," says productivity guru Gina Trapani.

Do the most important thing first.
The fact is that you should do the most important task first. This would allow you to properly allocate your time in the best way possible.
Trapani calls this "running a morning dash". She says that when she begins work in the morning, before she checks any email, she spends an hour on the most important thing that is written in her to-do-list at the top.

Know when you work best.
Industrial designer Jeff Beene does consulting work, but as per his work requirement, he can carry out his work at any time of the day. But, he says, "I try to schedule things so that I work in the morning, when I am the most productive." Each person has a best time.

Keystrokes are a must!
“If you're on a computer all day, keystrokes matter because efficiency matters. "On any given day, an information worker will do a dozen Google searchers," says Trapani. "How many keystrokes does it take? Can you reduce it to three? You might save 10 seconds, but over time, that builds up."

Make it easy to get started.
We don't have problems finishing projects, we have problems starting them," says Mann. He recommends you "make a shallow on-ramp." Beene knows the key creating this on ramp: "I try to break own my projects into chunks, so I am not overwhelmed by them."

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