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Show "The Woman's Touch" MANAGING HUMAN RESOURCES Time is the most completely limited resource, since no day can contain more than 24 hours nor can any of these hours be saved. Planned time means more time. Most orderly and productive days begin the previous pre-vious day or evening with thought fill planning. Wise investment of time is particularly important to home-makers. home-makers. Some believe that it is impossible im-possible for a homemaker to-make to-make a plan for the use of her time due to the frequency of emergency activities each day. Hiis is because they think of a plan as something that is rigid and unbending that requires strict adherance to be of any worth. A plan or budget for the spending of your time will defeat its purpose if it is "iron clad. " Every good plan is adjustable to suit circumstances. As a home-maker home-maker you would do well to allow time in your daily or week ly plan for unplanned -for -activities. Balance in the use of time is most important. To you, a homemaker, it means that there must be time for work, rest, and sleep, with sufficient leisure for some phase of living that will keep you emotionally stable sta-ble and intellectually alert. Don't let peak loads get you down. If you are a wise manager of time you will, if possible, level off peaks either by starting the work early enough ,to avoid the last minute rush, or "by completing other regular work in advance so more time may be free for special demand when the peak load arrives. Delegating Delegat-ing some work to others is another means of meeting the situation. The most efficient time management is achieved by stopping work before you ce-come ce-come really tired. You will be able to accomplish .more work and feel less tired if your work periods are broken up by short periods of rest. A rest period need not mean complete discontinuance dis-continuance of work. Alternating Alter-nating types of work may slow down the development of . - fatigue. A sitting down job after a working one, or a menta task after a physical exertion will prove restful. The most effective results can be expected if you lie down and relax completely. Complete Com-plete relaxation in a sitting position is the next most effective effec-tive means of relieving fatigue. Rest periods are of value both for increasing output and for postponing fatigue. Lost wealth may be regained by industry, and economy, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance and medicine, but lost time is gone forever. |