How to use your time efficiently

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Don't let your time pass unnoticed, catch it, control it and make it work for you. How to do this - we will tell you in this article.

The second step towards any change in life after planning is organization, that is, finding the resources and people who contribute to our development.

There are three key life resources:

• time;
• energy;
• money.

In this article we will talk about time, because it is very difficult to effectively use this resource, but each of us should be able to do it.

- What do you want?

- I want to kill time.

- Time does not like it very much when it is killed.

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

I am sure you have heard such phrases: “I don’t have time for this” or “I can hardly manage to work, whatever…”. Of all the resources, only time is absolutely irreplaceable.

The philosopher B. Fuller said: “I have lived for 70 years. This amounts to 600 thousand hours. Of these, 200 thousand I slept, 100 thousand went to eat, drink, restore my health, 200 thousand hours I studied and earned a living. Of the remaining, 60 thousand hours I spent on the road. The remainder - the time that I could have freely - was only about 40 thousand hours, or about one and a half hours a day."

The main question is: how to spend this time with benefit?

Dozens of good time management books have been written. I'll share just a few guidelines to help you better manage this resource.

Control

Don't be fooled by your calendar. There are as many days in the year as you can use. So, in the year of one person there are only seven days, in the year of another - 365.

Charles Richards American pentathlete

Control your time. To have 24 hours in your day, and not two, three or five, you must clearly understand what you are spending them on.

There are people who say in the evening: "Well, another day flew by unnoticed." And there are those who spend this evening with benefit, for example, reading books, only because it was planned in advance.

Start a diary, use notes, put crosses on your hand. You only realize the value of time when you start noticing it. Don't let your time fly by, catch it and make it work for you.

Victim

Don't say you don't have time. You have exactly the same amount of time as Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, Pasteur, Helen Keller, Albert Einstein had.

Jackson Brown

I really like this aphorism. Few realize that we all have the same number of hours in a day. We see people running in the morning or doing overtime and wondering how they do it?

It's very simple: these people made certain sacrifices. You should understand that the goal of developing a skill in yourself or to achieve something good results should inevitably push other things out of your schedule.

There are students who sit in smartphones during lectures, and there are those who listen carefully to the teacher. There are those who sleep at seven in the morning and those who meditate. There are those whose Friday night ends with a party in the club, and those who are working on a new project at this time.

Don't be fooled. In fact, the phrase "I'll start learning English" sounds like "I'll start learning English instead of spending time at the computer."

Always immediately indicate what you have to give up in order to achieve the intended results. And constantly remind yourself that it's worth it.

Discipline

People don't change overnight.

"Cruel Intentions"

You have an inspiring goal, a plan is ready, and you begin to follow your new schedule. And then a day passes, two, three, but something is definitely not right. You ask yourself, “Well, where is the result? Why haven't I become a millionaire yet?"

The source of motivation is running out. But discipline will give you something more - consistency in working on yourself.

Our motivation is a hand-held generator. We receive its charge and begin to convulsively twist the handle, generating energy for change. We watched an inspiring film, went to a training, read a book, but a day or two passes, and we do less and less until we say to ourselves: "Okay, I give up."

Discipline is the engine. You build it step by step, improve it, increase its power. If you've turned it on once, it won't slow down. Monitor its work and make adjustments. Yes, it also does not last forever, but its charge will last you for a long time.

Build discipline with little effort every day. Constantly work on yourself, develop new habits, abandon old ones. Most importantly, don't stop following your plan for a minute. If it’s too difficult, just tell yourself: “You can give up, but only tomorrow, but today keep working.” And so every day.

This is not a psychological deception, this is an acceptance of the fact that you need to change at the moment and carry it out with maximum benefit.

What to do?

• Start a day planner, download a calendar app, buy a time management book. Calculate how much time you have left to work on yourself.
• Before you go towards your goal, make a list of what you will have to sacrifice for it. Answer yourself what is more important to you, and only after that start working.
• Learn discipline. Follow your plan for today and keep repeating it until it becomes part of your routine. Remember, habit builds character.

If you have your own ways to improve the organization of time, please write to me at [email protected] or VK.