Do you feel that you would need the day to have more hours? Do you think that time would reach you time? Everyone lives running, without knowing many times behind what. The truth is that time is the only thing we cannot recover, it is the most precious thing we have and that is why we have to take care of it and give it its value. What we can try is to optimize it, to be more productive to make it better and not feel that we run without a clear goal. But what price are we willing to pay for that year -year -old? Many times high productivity is associated with stress, but, in reality, we propose the opposite: you organize better to lower your stress level! And this applies both for the workplace and personnel.
"Awareness learning to better manage your time you will approach your goals much faster and abandon the habit of procrastinating."
- PRIORITIZE COMES FIRST
Do you have an endless list of things that "you have to do"? Make a stop. I learned to prioritize. We live stressed and with the illusion that one day we will have free time to dedicate ourselves to that hobby that we love or that project that we long for. So we propose that you separate the professional issues of personal and assign the category of urgent, important and unimportant to lead to all your projects. On the other hand ... how difficult it is sometimes to say no! But It is important to learn to take an agenda aligned to their own desires, and not to others. So, in order to prioritize, it is key that you put your homework over those that others ask for.
- YOUR MIND IS NOT AN AGENDA
It is impossible for your brain to store everything you have to do. Eliminate that overload of unnecessary information and opts for the paper agenda, the cell phone or any alternative that results in.
- Write down absolutely everything, whether particular or labor, important or secondary, to generate habit
- I distinguished what is personal of work, for example, with a different color
- Check your agenda every morning and check if you need to add something or simply clearly see what is scheduled
- Always carry your agenda with you and do not accept any meeting or commitment without consulting it
- At the time of schedule, try to be aware of what you will be able to do. Do not overload your agenda
- And remember: what is not scheduled, is not done, does not exist!
- TO GET EARLY IS TO ACTIVATE
According to several scientific studies, most people are more productive in the early hours of the day. They are the ideal hours to carry out activities that involve creativity. However, it is common for us to procrastine during the day the tasks that are more complicated to us. I had the habit of starting the day doing what most effort implies in the early hour. It is known that Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg wake up very early! And they will know, right?
- LEISURE IS PRODUCTIVE
All those activities that we do in our free time, generally recreational and that have nothing to do with our work, are more valuable than you think. Many companies incorporated the issue of leisure in the workplace to boost the performance of their employees, which, feeling happy in their work, increase their productivity. If you are entrepreneur or work from your home: it is essential that you establish your own schedules and cuts to achieve your own balance so necessary!
- TOMATO TECHNIQUE
Consists in dedicate a time of absolute concentration to a task (generally, 25 minutes), without any interruption. After each Pomodoro block, a short pause period is happening (It is usually 5 minutes). A Pomodoro cannot be paused or divided; If it is not possible to postpone the interruption, the Pomodoro is canceled and then restart it. For this it is necessary to eliminate any type of distraction agents such as cell phone or social media consultation while we do the task.
- NO AL MULTITASKING
We are used to doing several things at once: work, domestic chores, tasks related to children's care, organization, decision making, enough! It is proven that this increases stress and anxiety, with the consequent physical and mental exhaustion. In addition, the efficiency of the tasks that we develop simultaneously lower. Therefore, try to "attack" the issues of one at a time. The issue of prioritizing again takes prominence and you have to discern between the urgent and what is not so much. And if you work at your home, work hours are that and nothing else! Neither the washing machine nor a pudin for the oven are part of the process. In short, becoming aware and learning to better manage your time, making use of the management techniques available, you will get much faster to your goals and to abandon the habit of proclasting: What are you going to change in your routine from tomorrow to get more juice in your time?
METODO GTD (getting things done)
David Allen created this method that proposes a serene state, like that of a quiet lake, to focus on the present and be more efficient in what you do. To make your mind as calm water, the GTD method proposes to outsource your mind in a trusted system to keep an empty head.
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Por Sandra Felsenstein
Industrial engineering
Director and founder of Dinkka
