ABSTRACT
Administering a counseling program and counseling children are demanding and often physically and emotionally exhausting. The pressures on time are continuous and relentless. Yet, through the development of carefully negotiated habits, time can be a resource instead of a threatened commodity. School counselors do not have to succumb to the "Pareto principle" or the 80:20 rule. Simply stated, 80% of unfocused effort generates only 20% of results, and the remaining 80% of results are achieved with only 20% of the effort. Time management strategies are critical if school counselors are to avoid spending the bulk of their time doing the clerical, trivial, or mundane with only a small portion of their time spent on significant activities that contribute to their role as a counselor. Counselors try not to project an image of being enmeshed in clerical and administrative tasks, but since the currency of a bureaucracy is paper, school counselors have often become the "designated tellers."
