Alex Mas: "The supreme time management"

Alexey Mas, one of the most successful Ukrainian entrepreneurs in the Internet industry, shared with us his thoughts on time management. Text below a little unusual for this blog, but it gathered during investigations Alexei on personal productivity and methods to achieve their goals.

TIME BELONGS TO YOU, NOT YOU TIME

This text serves to optimize your performance. But do not get carried away with optimization - do business.

result: Traditional studies (hospital, 5 years) - this is a dangerous thing. You need to have a very good reason (specific purpose) to spend as a huge chunk of time to an unknown result. In addition, the principle of 50-50 (theory-practice) is not applicable during school, everything is exactly the opposite, that is, in my opinion, the evidence on the harmfulness of the current teaching methods.

1. The need to time (s) for

We mean by "Effective time management"A process in which the following conditions are fulfilled in your life:

1. Are you happy with the results (progress towards the target);

2. You are absolutely free from the urgent and uninteresting cases.

Ideal is unattainable, but you are more than satisfied and have more freedom - the better time management.

resultIf you do not have goals - you do not have time.

USE TIME MANAGEMENT NO GOALS - PROHIBITED

Council: Do not reproach himself for inaction! It is often better to do nothing than to do something wrong.

How to develop a purpose?

It would not have turned the fate of the only goal that is worthy of you - change the world. All other goals - a selfish (then you just have not figured out to yourself and you early to think about AIMS), or reduced to "change the world".

result: Your goal is formulated as follows: I have decided (for the period of his life) to change the world, that there was more (transfer favorite affairs and feelings, but not things). Things - the main enemies of the time.

2. Adoption of time (axioms)

The phrase "time is money" is not very accurate. Time - money multifaceted.

Time - that is all that is given to us in this life. Time and life are almost synonymous.

Time you can invest. Nothing else can not invest without time.

Man needed and needs universal currency, to estimate the path which he selects every second. Historically, it's money. But time - a natural and far more universal measure. therefore Business naturally build on the resources of timeRather than cash.

3. The existence of time (concept)

Engage only favorite things. If you can not afford it - this text is not for you.

Justifications:

1. Nothing can be good to do if you do not like it.

2. The ability to do uninteresting things, leads to a dilemma of choice, which, in my opinion, the objective can not be solved.

Council: Tame forbidden to do

HOW TO CHOOSE need to do

1. Needful things interesting.

2. Need to do not need to do urgently.

3. Work needs to be done in the future.

(CAUTION: ANY OTHER BUSINESS AND HAVE NOT NEED)

Moving to a higher level of time management and daily discard CLOCK - you do not need.

rationale:

1. The man has a memory and sense of time. Both of these abilities - unique and absolutely necessary. Therefore, getting rid of the hours and daily logs, you train MEMORY.

2. Throwing out the clock, remember the time - it's your property, it belongs to you, not you to him.

The Council is not for beginners!

If you do not have a watch and calendar, you first need to purchase both, to understand why they are needed. And only then discarded. I think it is inefficient to avoid things that are not familiar.

Do not try to convince people. Their beliefs - that is their personal happiness.

What to do? Express their own opinion, I agree with those points that acknowledge and agree with those which do not recognize. Finish the conversation. Be it is absolutely open and honest. In this case your buddies will not have problems.

Love people and yourself first

1. Love for others will allow you to love yourself, and not to fall into selfishness. Also protect against conflicts. Nobody can take away and give you as much time as other people.

2. Love for yourself will allow you to save your own time from encroachment.

resultBe honest with yourself and others.

4. Manufacturing time (basic techniques)

a structuring TIME

A. NOT EVERYTHING IN TIME - get rid of feelings of guilt

You can not beat the time, if you assume that you are indebted to him. Report to someone to use their time - is harmful. After all the time - that's what really is yours. That someone may require you to only a particular result. But if your work is somewhere on the site and receive customer calls, the missed calls - the negative result of which you can easily be in the response.

B. Brought to automatism WHAT can be brought to automatism. This will allow you and your mind not to notice these things.

C. Does one job at every moment ...

+ Limit the number of cases hanging NEAR (delete stuff)

+ DO "GOAL" (remember why)

+ Trust your intuition. She knows more than you do (mind, a sense of balance)

Corollary 1: The Perfect Desktop - empty; Ideal mailbox - empty;

Corollary 2: Especially dangerous are "hanging" important matters. The case selects the time about 10% of its importance. To take on the 10 important things, and you generally will not work.

Corollary 3: It is much easier and more efficient to tell people that you prefer in this business since it will take time, and it (concerned) to remind you himself about it. In this case, your brain relax and enjoy life. It is better to remember something useful, than those things, which are not necessarily remember. By the way, it confirms the concept about pleasant things. He would like to remind you, and you do not usually pleasant to remember it yourself.

Corollary 4: Create perfection (each completed deal dissolves in space and do not get bored).

Corollary 5: Do not mix several things together. Do well individually. The phrase, "I'll take care of your business after another will do a thing" - I have to go out of your vocabulary. You do not know quite whether completed yet when something is another matter, and certainly - these cases are not connected at all.

Haste slowly. Because any time pressure - is ineffective.

KEEP 33% FREE TIME (THEN 50%)

rationale: It is not possible to structure a time when it still occupied. You need room for maneuver.

5. Preservation time (caution)

Get rid of things. Things taken time. There are, of course, useful things, but they are useful and harmful at the same time. Sense of balance when things become harmful - get rid of them.

In addition, it will be interesting to know that 90% of things - useless in nature.

My observations: Car, take with you, robs me of time on UAH 5 per day, bringing the winning time, depending on the circumstances of 20 (tube) to 40 (transportation equipment, holiday trips).

Mobile selects and brings UAH 1 time for 4 USD.

Handheld (approx. Editor's Note: Article was written a long time ago) selects the time to UAH 4 and brings only 1 UAH, I do not wear the handheld. Amounts relative to the same I have it as a stole, which also led to a kind of wasting time (in useless excitement and data recovery, password change).

resultIf you love your time, you should avoid:

1. Reading thick books (especially disliked). In any case, the book should be read voraciously or Chitat all.

2. Lengthy negotiations with the participation of a large number of people. It is obvious that half of those present simply wasting his time.

Council: Learn to stop and go back, do not try to be right.

1. Many people and myself, I noticed a bias against to 5 meters to go in the opposite direction, to admit their mistakes, and so on. Get rid of this, any prejudice can be forgotten.

2. Be able to admit their mistakes. Then what you have done - will save your time and do not spend it.

E. Not get involved in long does (like simplicity), FAST (like the time) get out of NEPERESPEKTIVNYH events (like yourself) and thus keeps his word (like people).

Corollary 1: Do not spread your word.

Corollary 2: Do not engage in complex cases - either simplify or forget.

F. Does not work with those who work as well as you. Nothing takes so much time, as the inconsistencies with disorderly assistants.

result: People need to pay high salaries, because your level specialists are much

G. BUSINESS NEED:

1. Forget.

2. If you can not forget, do something immediately and correctly.

3. If you can not do, or not interested, then do give to another.

investigation:

1. Forget - the most effective method. You need a habit, but most cases are completely useless.

2. Remember, each "do" the same thing takes away time (to support, to consult, to express feelings of gratitude). Sincere positive emotions of other people, meanwhile, saves time.

3. Giving others do, select a lot of time control, but at the same time leave it (time) in stock.

PostSledstvie: VERY IMPORTANT. DO do the right (right - so that as a result of the sum you have received a gain in time and not lose), properly done deal selects 10-20 times more time later. DO doing wrong - DO NOT.

PostPostSledstvie:

CORRECT (with saving time) made the case strengthens your faith in power over time. It is very useful.

Council: Leave some time for the correct control.

Particularly harmful things: narcissism, selfishness, prejudice, and offended by offending people, luxury, euphoria.

Your image should generate a time rather than eat it. Watch this. If you have a euphoria - it means you have something to do too FAST, slow down. Keep a balance between the mind and the senses. Do not give any to any other prevail.

6. Implementation (methodology)

notes:

1. Do not try to force things too, nothing happens right away (it is better to climb the stairs than to climb on bare wall).

2. The philosophy is necessary to realize a whole and implement slowly and evenly (a cart on two wheels / beliefs / if it will go, then the curve).

3. Do not be afraid to experiment (there is no other true experience, but their own).

4. Where you need time, not art - stick to a consistent technology (do not argue with themselves).

5. Do not flatter yourself RESULTS

Applications (excessive)

While natural money

Why more than the natural measure of success than money?

Initially, when you birth a given time. And the purpose of your life (at the physical layer), there can be only one single thing - to effectively use the suitable you time. Under efficiency, you can understand what you want.

Negative connotation of money

Money - it is a kind of "fictitious" thing, Which was invented and originally did not exist.
Time - given to us by nature. There is nothing wrong with money, but just as every "dummy" (unnatural) thing, money has its limitations. And people who see these constraints facing them will condemn those who have chosen the measure of money. It would be inappropriate to record these people into enemies. Choose another landmark - time.

Conversion of money during

You have enough $ 1,000 for a couple of days? So, this amount can save for you this time. You can hire a housewife and it also saves you time. Unfortunately, money does not exist by themselves. If you plan to not only spend, but also to use them effectively (to invest) - they will not only give, but take your time.

Accounting for time

The main advantages of taking into account the time:

1. With rising incomes money loses its value, and remains unchanged.

2. natural money time (see. * While natural money).

3. Money has a negative connotation (see. * Negative coloration of money), and the time - no

Investments

The money can only be invested with the help of time. You can be really busy chores, if the grandfather bequeaths you a few billion. You need time for the selection of consultants (at least) if you want to really invest the money. Knowledge is almost impossible to invest, they are not amenable to accounting and valuation. You can invest in the decades of knowledge, but if you do not spend years on their use - knowledge will die with you.

Business and time

How much would you not paid its employees, whatever they may be - is to generate or consume time. therefore successful company from an unsuccessful distinguishes it temporary balance. A successful company produces many of the effective time, and it devours unsuccessful (as a result - with the money).