How to learn to plan your time

Are you complaining about the lack of time? It's not worth it. Better learn how to plan it. Can not you manage anything? Try to take a critical look at your usual daily routine. Surely there will be a couple of lessons in it that are wasting time. Getting rid of them, you can manage everything, and maybe even a little more.


At work

How many times a day do you check your email? This manipulation prevents you from working productively. Switching from this case to another. You spend about 4 minutes to regain concentration. It turns out, looking through the folder "Inbox" twice per hour, for a working day you lose 60 minutes! A whole system of working with mail has been developed.

The main principles: immediately delete unnecessary correspondence, sort the letters for urgent and urgent and check incoming not more than five times a day. Of course, we are not talking about those cases where you conduct business correspondence and must immediately respond to partners.

Best the enemy of the good

If you do a lot of times to redo the work, looking for and correcting shortcomings, most likely, you're a perfectionist. You strive for perfection, which, as you know, is unattainable. Psychologists say that perfectionists tear down the terms of not rezhelentyas. However, even such an "ideal" employee can be taught to save time.Business coaches advise you to schedule, first, simply record what you did and how long it took.For example: accounted for the sale of African elephants - 4 hours and 35 minutes, reread the report, that it does not have enough comparison with the sales of Indian elephants, added - 2 hours 10 minutes, read again, found that the word "elephant" is found too often, looking for synonyms - 1 hour 23 minutes. Realize the scale of your perfectionism, be horrified and immediately move on to drawing up a work plan: 10: 30-15: 00 - to make a report on the sale of African elephants, to surrender. And strictly follow it.

I worked myself - let me work another

Lothar Zayver, one of the leading experts on time management in Germany, is ready to answer questions of German precision. He is the author of several best-sellers, which abound in graphs, charts and tables. Among Lothar's numerous councils there is this: "Set priorities and refrain from work that others can do for you." This does not mean that you have to blame all your affairs on colleagues. Just remember that secretaries, couriers and, of course, direct subordinates are needed for In order to save your time, you will be able to spend on more complex and skilled work.

Chatterbox - a find for a spy

According to the Institute of Organizational Counseling, Russian companies spend up to 40% of their working hours on conversations. It is not surprising that we all have to stay up late at the office - it's necessary to do the same. It seems that near you like honey smeared? Perhaps it is. If on your desktop it is always possible to get hold of a confet or pechenyushkoy, colleagues will constantly come to communicate. In fact, this is a very effective technique, if you just got a job and you need to make friends with the team. But when the introductory stage is finished, hide the sweets in the table. If the cookies are locked up, and people are all going, the headphones will save. It is not necessary to listen to music, the main thing is that the cord sticks out plausibly. Surprisingly, it's a fact: loitering colleagues are much easier to tear you from working on a computer than to wrest melodies and rhythms from the world.

The obvious probable

We will not waste your time and place on the page, just give the figure: by refusing to Facebook, "facebook", Twitter, "Classmates" and ICQ at work, you'll save six hours every month. In six hours you can do a manicure, pedicure, styling and see a nice man a romantic comedy. Now, when you know about this, write posts "No time even for a date to go" is simply indecent!

At home

Accounting and control

There are a huge number of applications and programs that are able to keep statistics of your work at the computer and compile reports in the form of graphs and diagrams. Believe me, once you see that you spend two hours in the Minesweeper on the "Minesweeper", you quickly prioritize differently .If this does not help, you can also put in a program that will turn off the power of the computer after a given time. And whether you are still at the third level, prescription chocolate cake, the app does not care.

The more you know, the more you sleep

A lot of life a person sleeps, and it's fine. Save the happy hours spent under the blanket, we will not. It is possible to win time if you sleep in science. Sleep is divided into two phases - fast and slow. If the alarm rings during the second, count, the day is a nuisance: you feel like a broken one. You can download the application for the phone, which considers the sleep phase of the ibudit during the fast. The device is more expensive - a light alarm clock. It mimics the light, causing the body to produce a hormone called cortisol, which responds to the waking from sleep. When the window is pleasant Russian autumn and the sun appears two or three weeks apart, such an alarm clock is a very relevant thing.

In public places

I always take with me ... Stephen King, the author of the chilling soulproducts, in life a fine family man and a generous soul man. He gladly shares knowledge and even wrote a guide on "How to write books." He advises everyone to start reading more, he admits that he always has a book with him, an example of a writer should be followed by all who value his time.The crooked ladies, standing in line, discuss the virtues and charisma of the prime minister, you will be able to learn much more interesting things, and when you still find a moment to communicate with your friends (and with our advice you can definitely do this), you will not have to blush because you did not read anything author.

Have risen, built up

By the way, about the queues. It seems that for Russians this is a national sport, the progenitor of social networks and the best way to train tolerance. Meanwhile, the civilization has long stepped forward, so that payment for utilities, cellular communications and the Internet can be automated. After spending the same 30 minutes, but only once, registering a bank for an urgent payment, determining the date of transfer of money and the amount.

Codes, passwords, appearance

Often in search of a favorable price, we knock down our legs and lose time. European and American shoppers have been buying everything on the Internet for a long time. True, before that they nevertheless look in the store to try on the thing, turn it in their hands. Then, if the model is suitable, you just need to scan its bar code using a special application for a mobile phone. The program will show in which online stores you can buy this item, compare the prices and even display on the screen of the mobile phone customer reviews otovare. Delivery can be ordered immediately.

Before you engage in self-organization, ask yourself the question of what you will spend free time. Sometimes just setting a specific goal allows you to solve an apparently unsolvable problem.