Learning to manage yourself is an important first step in effective time management. Every day new tasks will present themselves and knowing how to deal with them will go a long way towards helping you to manage your time. However, with the help of business coaching there is one effective method for dealing with all of these tasks. I call them the four Ds of self management. They are:  Do it – For tasks that need doing now. If something can not wait schedule to complete it as soon as you can.  Delegate it – Some things are better done by other people so you can make better use of your time. If so, delegate it.  Dump it – Many things are simply not worth doing. If so, dump them.  Defer it – Not all tasks have to be done immediately, if so you should defer them.