Meet with your hronofagami

Perhaps you have never heard of the word - "hronofagi" but, believe me, a daily presence in our lives.

Hronofagi - term, came from a time management - it eaters of time or, in other words, all the things that distract you from the right and scheduled cases.

Countless varieties hronofagov, and since we are all different and each has its own troubles, then hronofagi we may be quite different. But even so, it is possible to identify the most common sink of our time.

Besides the ubiquitous hronofagov (social networks, television and so on. D.), Which are quite commonplace for to talk about them for a long time, there are other eaters of our hours and minutes, which should be paid Attention. Let's get acquainted with them.

Think about your hobbies

Your hobbies - is, of course, something that brings joy and variety to your life. But have you ever thought about how long it took your hobbies?

When I tried to calculate their hronofagov, it turned out that my most active hronofag - this is my favorite music. It is because of her I have a couple of dozen times late for work, to meet with friends, and once even I almost missed the train - so will hear your favorite tracks that drove stop station.

My second hronofagom, oddly enough, turned out to be a useful exercise, as reading. I love to read since childhood, at school and at the University of "readable" hours I arranged myself on the boring lessons and vapors. Now, when is the perfect time elapsed, read the clock has to steal from sleep. Often I notice that I can sit up with a book up to four in the morning, when the need to have to get up eight.

Let's find out whether your passion rewarding hobby, or it hronofag, which need to spend a lot less time.

Take a piece of paper and divide it into four columns.

In the first column, write down all your interests and hobbies.

In the second column, fill in all the benefits that these exercises give you (so you relax, it helps your self-education, so you have lifted the mood and so on. D.).

In the third column, record the time you have (on average) spend on them by day, week, month.

Admire the resulting picture. If you know that your hobby does not interfere with work and your other important matters - you are a lucky person, because your passions are not hronofagami. If, on the contrary, you can see that your passions take away from you too long (and free and not only), go to the fourth column.

In the fourth, the most important column you will need to porefleksirovat on how to drive their hobbies in certain time frame. Set yourself clear boundaries: read (watch TV shows, play video games, etc...), If it is a weekday for two hours before bedtime, for example. For every deviation from the norm of the time, "write out fines himself": if you are now playing computer games for 30 minutes longer, you'll be tomorrow to play for an hour less. carrot and stick method, as you know, a person acts very effectively.

Understand whether you are able to say "no"

Inability to say "no" - it is one of the most hostile hronofagov. Just think how much time you have spent because they were afraid to be rude and subscribed to it, then do not have neither the time nor the inclination.

Get rid of this hronofaga easier than it might seem at first glance. This does not need to invent mythical urgent matters or to hide from pesky friends, acquaintances and colleagues.

Take a piece of paper and draw your day. Yes, yes, draw Behold the eight hours you spend at work. Paint them a color marker and write in large letters the word "work." But these eight hours (ideally) you spend on a dream. In the reserve you are left with eight more hours that seem to be, you can spend at its discretion. But there it was: think about your morning routine, about the time spent on the road... the list is long.

When you draw your entire day, it may happen that you will have about an hour of free time. I think you do not really please the prospect of spending the 60 minutes is not on himself, but on the other person's business, which, if you recall, the same 24 hours in a day that you have.

The next time someone decides to load your own business, feel free to show him his art. In most cases, the other person everything becomes clear from one look at your "life now," and he would not insist on its request.

The desire to catch everything, everywhere and now

... is not the best desire. All of us to some degree perfectionists, and everything we want to demonstrate to others their importance, relevance and indispensability. Being accepted for multiple things at once, we forget that our possibilities are not limitless. We think it's cool - to do so much, but in fact we are showing a very great weakness - an inability to plan and prioritize.

Of course, in life should always be room for spontaneity and surprises, but things work - that's what it is worth to plan clearly and in advance. Determine that the priority for you and what is not so important. Do not deviate from your plan when to begin the task.

You - your most important hronofag

Have you noticed that often draw themselves wasted their time? You need to sit down and write this report, and you instead to invent other "urgent" matter. Yes, all of us are procrastinators very, very good. To curb the innate human ability to always postpone everything until later you can help Seven Simple Tips.

Hronofagi, which will not get rid

These are time wasters, such as traffic jams and queues. In our life, they are inevitable, and in any way affect them, we can not. But we can take advantage of the time that is necessary on these hronofagov spend.

You are standing in a traffic jam? Call your parents, which has been two weeks did not look. Sitting in line at the district hospital? Take a seat at someone and go out for some fresh air. The options are many.

Time - this is one of the most precious human resources. Try to use it to better advantage for themselves.

And what hronofagi and how to deal with them are known to you? Share in the comments.