Schedule for Tomorrow:
6:00 - Wake up
6:00 to 6:05 - Jog
6:05 to 6:30 - Breakfast
6:30 to 7:00 - Stroll with Pet Dog
7:00 to 7:30 - Preparation for Work
7:30 to 8:00 - Travel Time to Work
8:00 to 8:30 - Finish Uncompleted Work from Yesterday
8:30 to 9:30 - Break Time
9:30 to 4:00 - Work
4:30 to 6:00 - Hang-out with Colleagues
6:00 to 6:30 - Travel back to Home
6:30 to 6:45 - Pre-date Workout
6:45 to 7:00 - Preparation for Date
7:00 to 7:30 - Travel Time to Date Venue
7:30 to 10:00 - Date
10:00 to 10:30 - Free Time with Date/Sleep

The next morning....

6:00 - Alarm Clock Rings
6:00 to 6:15 - Request Alarm Clock for Grace Period
6:15 - Alarm Clock Rings Again
6:15 to 6:30 - Request for another Grace Period
6:30 - Alarm Clock Rings Again but Didn't Notice
7:00 - Wake Up Under Panic
7:00 to 7:15 - Preparation for Work
7:15 to 8:30 - Travel Time and Drive-thru Breakfast
8:30 Onwards - Panics, Frustrations, Cancellations, and Unexpected Insertions, and Procrastinations

That looks familiar, right? That is definitely not a classic example of effective time management. The alarm rings, you ask for 15 more minutes, then another 15 more minutes and you wake up and ask yourself what time it is. You cancel so many miscellaneous activities that are nonetheless essential. In obtaining effective time management abilities, the first thing that is to be kept in mind is avoiding any unnecessary delays. In fact, as much as possible, make it a point that no delay happens.

Waking up early in the morning is the most common problem people face when it comes to following a schedule. People have several reasons for this. The most common ones are having a bad night's sleep, insomnia, too many nighttime activities, or just simply the enjoyment of sleep. It really feels so good to delay waking up in the morning when that stupid alarm clock begins nagging on your ear.

As for the problem in alarm clocks, the solution is simple, get rid of the annoying alarm clock, and get a new one with a nicer tune. To get rid of insomnia, consult your doctor. For the bad night's sleep and nighttime activities, just get up and open your eyes. Having a very long sleep is not really much of a solution for the lack of a nighttime sleep; it is better to slowly recover from that by sleeping earlier on the succeeding nights.

Making a linear schedule with an interval of 30 minutes or so is not really an effective time management technique; those numbers are just causes of frustration so get rid of those. It is better to just simply set the time only for waking up, and then arrange your activities without setting an exact time for them. Just keep in mind that you are going to finish those things as fast as you can. Delays and unexpected changes always happen and removing those numbers in your schedule decreases the frustrations that they cause and it also makes your schedule appear more flexible.

No one in this world has all the time in the universe; everybody just has 24 hours a day to spend and in those 24 hours, the time to accumulate energy is the most important, so be sure to give enough time for sleeping and eating or else you are just going to spend the rest of your day with your mind wandering aimlessly and finishing nothing important in the end.