Our life is full of things to do, haste, obligations… The hours do not give us for everything we want to do and many times we consider improving the management of our time.
The amount of time we have each day is predefined, it is given to us. We have twenty-four hours, no more, no less. We cannot change it. What we can change is how we manage tasks. That is, we cannot act on the time we have, but on how we manage our activities. It is a matter of tasks, not time.
To be efficient, we first need to know what sense what we want to do makes for us. Ask ourselves why all this? This question connects us with our deep desires and makes us discover the reason and objective of our activities.
It is a matter of tasks, not time.
To be efficient, we first need to know what sense what we want to do makes for us. Ask ourselves why all this? This question connects us with our deep desires and makes us discover the reason and objective of our activities.
Have you ever found yourself doing something without knowing why? Someone just told you to do it, it's pretty common.
Sometimes we perform a task correctly but in the end we realize that the wrong thing was the performance of the task itself. It was not necessary, or it was not what we really wanted.
That is why it is important to ask frequently what we are doing something for, what is our motivation and what it is for.
1.- Avoid interruptions.
Meetings, shared coffees, emails, social networks… all this can be part of the job, but if you do not have it under control, they will become your great enemies because they will prevent you from fulfilling what you had programmed.
What are the hours in which you advance the most in your work? Probably first thing in the morning and at night, right? The main reason is because at that time the phone, visits and meetings do not interrupt you. Dead calm.
2.- Get enough sleep.
Subtracting hours from sleep, on a regular basis, to dedicate to work, is something that takes its toll over time, in addition, your performance, creativity and attitude will suffer the next day.
Being productive does not mean working more, if not using your creativity to find solutions that require less effort and when you have slept little, it drops to minimal levels.
What can be a fix and point solution should never become a habit. Get organized better and get enough sleep.
3.- Take care of your motivation, setting intermediate objectives.
If you set goals too far away, it is easy to get discouraged, lose your illusion and end up abandoning.
The less time you need to achieve something, the easier it will be for you to achieve it. Spending a year working without receiving feedback or having results can be daunting. We all like to finish some things and start others, not being "stuck" in an endless task.
In my article How to turn your dreams into achievable goals we talked about dividing goals into stages, maybe there you will find keys that will help you.
4.- Plan each day what you will do the next day.
If every day at the last minute you specify the agenda for the next day, you will start each day with clear ideas and fully focused.
It is a ten minute investment that is very profitable.
5.- Postponement robs you of time.
At some point we all postpone something, in fact some companies have developed business strategies based on it, such as express parcels or those that open on Christmas Day thinking about those who leave the purchase of gifts until the last day.
I have adopted the habit of doing in the moment any task that I have pending and for which I need to invest less than three minutes. And I recommend that you try it. If you leave the small tasks for tomorrow and add it to other pending things, it will become precious time that you will have committed and that you could dedicate to other more rewarding activities for you.
If you can control this common trend, you will have taken a big step to improve your personal efficiency.
Remember that you are the owner of your life, turn your freedom into value.
