How to add one more hour to the day

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

Many of us often say that 24 hours a day is very little. We do not have enough time for work, for rest, for life in general. But not everyone realizes that we ourselves are desperate thieves of our own precious minutes. Today we'll talk about how to stop wasting your time and start living as if there are 25 hours in a day.

Time is one of the most important components of life. If you feel that your days often fly by so quickly, and you do so little, then it means that you are mismanaging your time … and your life.

Below are 23 tips to help you save time and be more productive.

Do you love life? Then waste no time; for time is the fabric of which life is made.

Benjamin Franklin

1. Seek privacy

You can all be completely different, and I am ready to respect that, but I need peace and quiet. I feel overwhelmed and unable to do anything when the TV screams, the dog barks, the kids scream, the cat meows, the microwave beeps, the dishwasher and washing machine hums, the smartphone vibrates constantly, and the notification of a new email sounds like an alarm. …

2. Use visual reminders

Visual reminders can be very helpful when you need to remember to do what's important. One of the easiest ways is to write down what needs to be done on paper and add a small note to it explaining why you need to do it. Place this piece of paper where you can easily see it: on your bathroom mirror, on the wall in front of your bed, or even next to your computer keyboard. This method may not be as effective if you do reminders for absolutely all of your tasks, but it works flawlessly for several high-priority tasks.

3. Don't be afraid to face the truth

If you lie to yourself or others, it will end up badly for you in the end. The truth will still ever break out, regardless of our desire. Lying can make a simple situation difficult and make us look bad. Surely you know many people who got into unpleasant situations simply because they were unable to admit the truth. You need to develop the habit of telling the truth even in situations where it is very difficult. This will save you from mental pain, a lot of suffering and will save you a lot of time that you would spend on eliminating the consequences of your own lies.

4. Find a source of passive income

Passive income is income that you receive without time or other costs on your part. You may need to do a little work at first, but keep in mind that the return on passive income can last for years. The money that you receive from passive income is money that you no longer need to earn while doing your main activity. Thus, passive income brings you closer to financial independence.

5. Complaining kills time and energy. Stop

When you complain, you blame the outside world for what is happening, not yourself. If you notice this habit and decide to fight it, you can make your fear your strength and no longer let it decide for you what to do. As you take responsibility for your thoughts, emotions, actions, and the consequences of your decisions, you will let go of many fears and realize that what seems difficult and impossible at first is not.

6. Train yourself to wake up early

Don't waste your time. Here's a little trick to get you up on time: place your alarm clock not by your bed, but on the other side of the room. In this case, to turn it off, you have to get out of bed.

7. It's okay to just say no

Sometimes, saying “yes”, we deprive ourselves of many opportunities, while a simple “no” can save us these opportunities. Your life is a limited number of hours, and are you really ready to part with them so easily? If you don’t have time to take on a new project, do someone a favor or something else like that, then I have a good idea for you: just say no.

8. Delegate responsibilities or seek helpers

Let's say you have an idea for a new business and the means through which you can start this business, but, alas, you have absolutely no time for this. But there is a solution: you can hire employees to do the business for you, and then look at the results. If the business turns out to be really worthwhile, you can devote your own time and energy to developing it.

9. Use technology to automate tasks

Don't be idle. Make sure you have backups. And there is no need to do them manually - leave it to your computer.

10. Stop trying to make everything perfect

Perfection is an illusion. We strive for perfection because we have an idea of what we should be, but this image is far from reality. Understand that perfection and imperfection are the result of conflict that unfolds in your mind. In reality, these concepts do not exist. You have to make mistakes in order to grow and move forward. Don't let perfectionism paralyze you.

11. Pre-study what you are going to devote the lion's share of your time

For example, when starting a business on the Internet, a successful person carefully calculates the risks and benefits that he will receive. A potential bankrupt will not do all this - he will first create a certain product and only then think, and who, in fact, might be interested in this?

12. Remember: if you hurry, you will make people laugh. Sometimes it's worth it to hesitate

Working in a hurry can lead to blunders and disastrous results in the long run. Sometimes something unsettles us: a child is ill, problems at home. It is at such moments that you need to stop the frantic pace of business for a while and focus on present, not future problems.

13. Be clear about your goals and remember your priorities

Assess your life balance. To do this, visualize your life, for example, using a pie chart. It will let you know if you are truly living according to your priorities. Print it out and hang it where you can see it at all times. What does the diagram look like? Exactly how you want it?

14. Don't waste time worrying about things outside of your control

There is something inevitable. Some things we simply cannot control. So isn't it better to put aside worrying about them and start just living your life, in which there will always be something good, as well as something bad? Your concern can never change this fact. But your actions will be able to.

15. Enjoy. Suffering is waste

Have you ever just stopped and thought about why you are doing all this? Have you ever felt like your main goal in life is to complete tasks from your to-do list on time? Perhaps if you are not enjoying life, you are wasting all your time. Are you bored, scared, angry, in a hurry, or generally unhappy - don't you consider this a real waste of time?

16. Get rid of the clutter at home and in the workplace

Take some of your time to clear out the clutter in your life. Let every thing of yours have its own place. And you will be rewarded: you will become more comfortable in your own home, there will be less stress in your life, your self-organization and productivity will be at a high level. Clutter pulls us down, distracts, and brings chaos into our lives.

17. Turn off the TV

Communication, sports, reading … There are so many wonderful activities in the world that can serve as a great alternative to useless sitting in front of a drawer.

18. Analyze different situations and anticipate events

Remember, any action has consequences. If you analyze every situation in which you find yourself, then over time, get used to predict the results to which it will lead. This will help you make decisions more thoughtfully and effectively. Surely there have been times in your life when you made a mistake with a decision, for example, trusted people who did not live up to your expectations. And so that when you tell someone about your misadventures, they do not exclaim in response: "Dude, what did you expect?", Ask yourself at the very beginning: "What results can your decision lead to?"

19. If you want to remember something - write it down

The memory of many people is like a bucket of holes. And there are many good reasons to write down your thoughts. So you will safely save ideas from a useless stay somewhere in the far corners of your mind. If you don't write down your ideas, you will likely forget a lot of good ideas and some great ones.

20. Spend Time Usefully Waiting For Something

When you are waiting for something or someone, open the book and start reading. As a rule, even with a short wait, you will master several pages. Use these intervals and you will be amazed at how much more you get done. By dedicating one hour a day to reading for five years, you will be able to master nearly the entire university curriculum. So don't waste the minutes you spend waiting.

21. Do the most important tasks first

Starting the morning with the projects most important to you is a guarantee that you will have time to do something really important in a day. In advance (before this crazy world has time to disrupt all your plans) allocate your time in such a way that every day you can do what you like. Do not forget to record the time during which you are engaged in a task or group of tasks. Give each task a specific amount of time, and you will find yourself getting through things faster.

22. Add meaning to everything around you, to everyone around you, and to yourself

If you do not attach importance to events and people, then you are wasting time, and not only your own. Be valuable to yourself, your family, society and the planet as a whole. Otherwise, your whole life is a waste of time and oxygen.

23. Take minutes now to save hours later

You should spend a little more time now to save a lot later. In the long run, you will learn to work more passionately, not just longer in time. Just a few minutes spent productively and consciously can work wonders.