I am quite sure that you've heard someone to yell by saying 'I cannot manage my life'. Managing life is not an easy task to handle. On the other hand, it is not an impossible task to accomplish. All you need is to gain competence in this skill.
Management is an important task that is meant for the organization. Nonetheless, if you know what is management and how to imply this in own life, it would be easier for you to handle everyday tasks. Management is the process of reaching organizational goals by exploiting human and other resources of an organization. Management comprises of four activities: planning, organizing, influencing, controlling.
In our daily lives, we need to plan ahead of everything. For instance, if you want to buy clothes, you may need to decide what type of cloth you want, where to go to buy that cloth, what should be the price, and so on. Even if you want to buy online, you would need to decide on from which site you would buy that cloth. These are all included in planning. So, if you know planning very well, your work will be half done before even doing it.
After planning, comes organizing. Organizing refers to coordinating the activities planned before to the resources at hand. If we go back to my previous example, now we have decided what to buy, where to buy, and how much to pay, we would now need to decide on the number and pattern of resources to be allocated for each task. Organizing turns a plan into an action. Thus, if we know the proper allocation of resources, it would save our money and time.
Influencing refers to the action by which a person can lead, monitor, motivate, and direct the activities of other people in order to accomplish the goal. In our example, if we need some other people to help us with buying the intended cloth, we would need to influence them in a way so that they feel motivated to do so. Influencing needs patience and ability to get people's attention.
Controlling is a process of having a glimpse to find out the difference between what we were supposed to do and what we have done so far. This is very important to know to keep track of how things going. From our example, when we finally but a cloth we start evaluating if we could buy something that we were planning to buy, or even we buy something from our plan, would that meet our expectations.
It seems management is very important in our daily lives. We need management while preparing for exams, planning to go on a trip, arranging a party in the house, and so on. Sometimes, it is difficult to employ all four activities of management on the same activity. In that situation, one needs to analyze and find out which would be perfect to execute the intended actions. One should first gather knowledge on how to manage things and the extent of each of management's activities. This will surely help one to get things done easily.
