Time management continues to be one of the most demanded topics by my readers, so I dedicate some letters to it again. A correct management of your time will allow you to achieve better results and will also eliminate stress from your life.
It is important that you invest time and resources in managing it, since as I just mentioned it is not a loss, it is an investment. It will be a small amount of time invested that will be returned to you in results, effectiveness and health due to the decrease in stress.
I show you in this article some keys for you to manage your time effectively
Schedule
Keeping an agenda is essential for managing your time in which you can free your head and focus on carrying out the relevant activity in the present moment.
It is true that it will take you a little time to manage it, but this will come back to you, since you will carry out all your activities, because you will need less time for them because you will have your head free to concentrate on what you have to do in each moment.
Your schedule will also allow you to keep in mind the activities that you must carry out and know how to be able to execute others in the best possible combination so that you can do everything without delay and even with plenty of time.
I often hear the excuse, "I don't have an agenda because then I don't look at it." Well, it will be a matter of starting to look at it, a small new action that will take away a lot of stress and work. I think it's worth leaving behind that lousy habit / excuse.
Learn to flex and prioritize
You don't have to do everything, every day. This in addition to being impossible, will generate stress and on top of it at the end of the day you will have a feeling of dissatisfaction for everything you have not been able to do.
Get organized and distribute your activities in the day, in the week, in the month. The important thing is that there is a record in the activity. It is better to do a task twice a month than never do it because you intend to do it every day and, of course, that is impossible.
I understand that you may have many concerns and that there are a lot of things you would like to do. With a good organization, and with flexibility you can do many, but the day has only 24 hours and you have two arms and two legs, so there is a limit, so you will have to learn to prioritize by asking yourself what activity is most important to you, or which leads faster to that important goal.
And if for reasons of agenda, you are thinking of giving up a goal or illusion that does not have so much priority, perhaps it is not a matter of leaving it, but of postponing it for later.
Calculate times realistically
We always try to schedule as many activities in the day, and that is a serious mistake. It is better to plan less activities with more time than to execute them. If you have time later, you can always fill it in with other new tasks and move on, but your work will be better done and you won't have that feeling of frustration at the end of the day.
In addition, applying this tip, you will see how you stop having problems with punctuality, the one that is often said to be inevitable, and is not true at all. Inevitable may be a day exceptionally, because an unforeseen event arose, but not as a custom.
Take care of what's important and not urgent
If we deal with what is important and with time, it will never become urgent. So it will be very rare for us to encounter those setbacks or unforeseen events that sometimes when crowding together, cause us to be unable to do anything planned and spend our days putting out fires.
If this happens to you, reflect and ask yourself if you are one of those who usually leave things until the last minute. Solve what you have pending and do not postpone it anymore, this way you will avoid these situations.
Invest time in your rest
I see so many people exhausted, and they don't stop because they say they don't have time. If you rest a little, the rest of the time will give you better and you can do much more.
For starters, if you strictly follow the other guidelines in this article, you will be able to leave a gap for your rest, but also if you still do it despite not having time, the rest of it will be 100%, so that although this is less, the results will be greater and better.
For a better use of time and performance, rest is not optional but mandatory.
Implement these keys in your life without excuses and you will see how you will not be deceived again with that of: "I do not have time".
