At work
- Do not lead empty conversation
If someone calls you or stops near the desktop and after 2 minutes you still do not understand why, ask about it directly. Do this every time someone tears you off from work without a purpose. A simple phrase: "How can I help?" - directs the conversation in the right direction. Especially with people who are known as chatterboxes.
- Do not get distracted by trifles
Email is a giant time eater. And it's not just to read the letter and write the answer. Every time you are distracted, you need time to switch back to work and concentrate. If you do not expect an important business letter, there is no need to answer the letters this very second. To start, turn off the sound, notifying about the arrival of a new message, then give yourself the word to look into the box only once an hour (or even 2).
- Establish a limit on communication
If you have a basket with a cookie on your table, and an empty chair beside you, you not only attract the hungry colleagues with a magnet, but you create all the conditions for them to wander around all day. Hide the cookies in the closet, and the chair in the pantry. Or eloquently heaped it up with folders. Do you like to be in the center of events? Fill a chair when you really need to work, and leave it free when there is a minute to chat.
At home
a device that absorbs a lot of time, and an excellent communication tool that allows you to tirelessly chat with your mother or best friend while you load laundry in a washing machine, clean a frying pan or put things in order in the nursery.
- Use progress
Can not miss the evening TV show? Do not be angry - we promised that we will not deprive you of pleasure. Just record your favorite program on the video recorder instead of watching it on the air - and you save at least 15 minutes, scrolling through the credits and ad units. In a week you will get a whole hour of free time, which you are free to use in your own way. Walk exercise. Spread 100%. If you usually practice for 40 minutes, try to keep up half the time, but at the same time, put it all to the full. Many people think that more is better. In fact, better and better. Short but intensive classes are more effective.
- Become unreachable
Each of us has at least one friend (sister, neighbor) who can be called a "vampire of the time". You pick up the phone, planning to talk for 10 minutes, and she hangs on the phone for an hour and a half. If you do not want to lose a decent part of life in conversations, from time to time disappear from her field of vision: do not take calls, do not respond to emails, refuse to meet at a cafe, referring to urgent matters. Your vampire will not go anywhere today or tomorrow, even if you do not answer her this instant.
- Work and talk
Headphones are a great tool for saving time. Your hands are free and you are free to cook dinner, wash dishes, put clothes in the closet and at the same time chat with your girlfriend. Leave one or two classes a week. Fitness instructors admit that 70% of people spend more time in the hall than necessary. In truth, daily training does not benefit the body. If you sweat 5-7 times a week, he does not have time to recover properly.
- Do not lose a minute
If you remove the workout from the diary, make the body sweat a little during the day: park the car far away and pass, at least a block on foot. And climb the stairs, not the elevator or escalator. The lack of time complaining residents of all megacities.