Like everything in time, evolve and not provtykal life

About three years ago I fell off a lot of cases, which have to cope. At the same time we want to keep a balance, so that work is not swallowed with his head. I had to do most of the work, prepare the training course program and to teach, to go to training, learn English, socialize with friends, have fun and, most importantly, take a break from this. One should also bear in mind that I freelance and had to organize its work. And basically, I was able to develop a simple system.

I do not want to delve into the theory: I am a practitioner and not a theoretician. I just share the basic ideas and principles. It is not a dogma, and not everyone can come. But who knows, maybe for you, this article will be helpful.

Theory

Then I did not know about fashion right now GTD and other techniques of personal effectiveness, however, I came across information about the spheres of human life. Great when you still have time, for example, at work, but these advances do not bring satisfaction and do not make sense, if in other areas you have no traffic.

Usually, people think that everything in life happens by itself, money falling from the sky and gives them a rich uncle, health nowhere does not go away, good relationships are built on their own, the success of a person is randomly selected and dumped it, and so Further. This children's vision of reality from it is necessary to chip. A little more on that - in the article of causality.

According to psychologists, there are eight basic spheres of human life: family, relationships, health, finances, career growth and development, spirituality, recreation. We can not say that some of the areas more important than another. They are all pieces that make up a harmonious and interesting life.

I will explain what is included in each area:

1. FamilyChildren, parents, relatives, and close friends.
2. Relationship: Loved one, partner.
3. Health: Energy, health, healthy lifestyle.
4. Finance: Salary, expenses, income and so on.
5. Career: Profession, skills, colleagues, workplace and career development.
6. Growth, development: Learning, reading, personal achievement, self-fulfillment.
7. Spirituality: State of mind, emotion, joy of life, the relationship with the universe (God).
8. Recreation: Hobbies, travel, entertainment.

In all these areas need to channel their energy in each movement should occur, or begin imbalances and problems in life. This means that in order to maintain the balance, for each area you need to make a list of tasks and goals.

But life - such a thing, which is always something going on, and this balance is often disturbed. Especially the head eternally clogged different thoughts, current workloads and information garbage and simply impossible to remember everything and feel safe. In the end, you realize that almost all the problems in life occur because of the inability to control his mind and his time.

Tools

It is important to understand that a person at a particular moment only one task can effectively carry out and this is a task on which it focuses here and now. Multitasking does not exist, you can only easily switch between tasks. In addition, the cleaner head, the smaller it is packed with goals and ideas, the better it understands. The computer may stop responding when you run a huge number of programs and the man who took on too much, begins to slow down. Hence the conclusion: in his head is better not to keep to-do lists, schedules, plan for the year - in general, everything that eats resources and prevents focus on the present moment.

Thus, we need to organize the external storage (outside the head) lists of tasks and areas to keep there all the necessary information. To do this, you can use any simple task-manager.

Every time we come to mind a thought or idea, we add it to the list of tasks required field. If necessary, add a reminder. Not always this problem will need to perform, because after some time, it may lose its relevance, and that's fine. The main thing is she is not sitting in our heads and not eating resources. It makes sense to have a separate list for ideas, which dumped everything that comes to mind. Later, after analysis, ideas are turned into a task or sent to the trash.

It is important to understand that when we add the task to the list, the brain stores its reserves and resources for it, and when we are celebrating a task as completed, the brain releases these resources. Making the physical action and noting the execution, we help the brain to understand that the job is done. Otherwise, the brain can not comprehend the fact of the task.

The beauty of the list also in the fact that you can always view the list of tasks already completed and wonder, how much are you really all time to per day, month, year. And how many can manage in a lifetime ?!

From this point of view, work with e-mail in the Inbox instead of the classic Gmail interface is much more efficient: so letters are transformed into tasks.

The reason that many people suffer, if they could not cope with the task, simple. The brain continues to allocate resources to it, and the more of these unsolved problems accumulated in the head, the more people brakes. Therefore, it is important not to take too much, and bring all things to the end.

Next, you need to allocate their time between tasks and ensure the movement in all areas. For this we need a calendar.

For each domain, created a calendar, a task allocated time. Thus we provide a harmonious movement in every area. Usually it should start from the hours that are assigned to work, because this time is fixed and often you're at it can not affect.

If you think a child at all was the daily routine in a kindergarten, then - schedule at school and university, so much was possible in time. But when a person grows older, he thinks that everything goes by itself, because before that someone made up this schedule. In principle, the way it happens, only this one takes into account their own interests, not yours.

Separately, we note that it is necessary to separate the common tasks of life of the workers and, for example, teaching, do not store them in one list. To operate using separate tools that are ground to specific tasks and help to better monitor their implementation.

For educational online courses developed its own environment, which allows you to track your progress. For other areas have their own tools, such as accounting or finance for tracking physical activity. The main thing - do not overdo them.

The brain realizes that the problem is recorded, and for them is allocated a certain time of the day. This gives a sense of control and allows you to focus all resources on the solution of the problem on which you need to think right now. This is the state of being here and now, which they say enlightened masters.

And still it is necessary to organize some kind of external storage of information and knowledge, so that you can always find something that might be useful. Most often, this technical articles and other stuff that is not necessary to keep in mind, but sometimes you need to re-read.

This does not apply to literature, which is recommended to read from time to time for the development of imagination and in order not to become highly productive robot.

How to use

Hopefully, the general logic of the work is clear: the problem of going to the pools that are linked to certain areas, created a calendar and time is given for each area, which will be carried out their plan.

Thus we assure your brain that understands that all the tasks have a specially allotted time, and if a particular hour is not otherwise engaged, so you can relax and droop.

Even if there will be an unexpected event that would break schedule, then you can always go back to the business and the normal routine of the day, because you have everything written down. The main thing - not to allow the brain to steam, if something goes wrong on the plan.

An example of a pool of tasks... I often come to different distribution of educational resources online, and I add me interesting courses in the list of "Education, Development". As soon as I finish one course, I immediately turn to the next. This ensures that continuous learning.

On order

Goals give direction, provide energy, so it makes sense to consider these tools in the context of the movement to what was intended. Even if a person has a global objective, it is composed of smaller ones that can be changed and supplemented. Therefore, it makes sense to your daily customized for different periods of life.

For movement in some areas we need to set goals. In other enough to perform routine tasks to keep state. For example, to develop and grow, we must constantly learn something new, and to be healthy, you need to brush your teeth, do a simple exercise, eat well and regularly, and so on.

life hacking

Everything that is written below, made from my own experience and tested more than once.

1. To feel the change, you need to try to use these tools 3-6 months. This ensures the production period habits.
2. Most often there is no need to set strict deadlines. But if some task must be completed on time, then perhaps for her will need more time in the day, which would entail a reorganization schedule. You may have to temporarily sacrifice some areas.
3. Periodically, you need to view to-do lists on spheres and erase them, often lists cease to be relevant. You also need to tinker with the schedule in the calendar, when it is impossible to stick with it. If the actual schedule does not coincide with the plan, the brain begins to worry.
4. If you share the calendar for family members or friends, they will be able to see when you're busy, but when you have the time to meet. So does the famous drummer Dom Famularo (Dom Famularo).
5. In the morning is better to break up the mind and body, and by the evening they inhibit: this mode is much more productive and corresponds biorhythms. As shown by my practice, training is better to endure in the morning, until your head fresh. For example, enough every morning for hours without straining to learn a foreign language to a year to significantly raise the level. I also noticed that if after learning to give the body an easy exercise, knowledge absorbed better. The evening is better to devote only exercise and rest, and the brain does not load.
6. To feel good, it is better to get up early, 5-6 hours. And so it was easy to get up, you need to plan for the morning meditation, training, exercises and the like. Many people in the morning for a long time lying in bed, and then going in a hurry and have resorted to work with a lousy mood. In this case, they still need some time that the brain is fully awake. Now imagine what mood comes a man who, while everyone was asleep, had to learn to do exercises and a good breakfast - and all this without haste and with pleasure.
7. During certain periods of priorities can vary, therefore it is necessary to review periodically timing between the spheres and adjust schedule.
8. To feel good physically, enough every morning to do an easy charging or swim, and 3-4 nights a week to devote to something greater: yoga, dance, and so on the TRX. It is also important to eat regularly 3-4 times a day. When I lived in India for five weeks and do yoga 2-3 times a day, six days a week, my body felt great.
9. The book you want to read and movies you want to see the best record in separate lists.
10. Sometimes, prokrastiniruya on the Internet, you can accidentally see advertising of any goods and to realize that it is necessary urgently to buy, otherwise life loses meaning. In this situation, you need to add the item to your shopping list and wait a week: usually within a few days, the desire to disappear by itself.
11. Many share the work and the life: they say, here I am now pomuchayus at work, and in the evening I'll live... But if you think about the work - it is an integral part of life. Life begins when you are born, and ends when death comes, and it does not matter what you're doing at the moment.
12. It is important to maintain flexibility. Even if you are asleep and do not have time to do exercises or some task took her more time, you can always to meet the schedule, reducing the time allotted to the next sphere, or to move to the next task day. You can not become a hostage to its own regulations, in the life of rare everything goes precisely as planned.
13. It takes some effort to re-organize life and manage their time more effective, but further efforts must be applied to make the found optimal mode habitual.
14. By and large, it does not matter what you're doing and what you're doing. It is more important to focus on the task at 100%, to be present in the moment, to feel and to be aware of what you're doing, receive feedback from the outside world and adequately evaluate it. really achieve such a state, and I do occasionally succeed, but it needs to unload their brains.

afterword

This article does not provide a ready recipe how to maintain a balance, to succeed and stay happy. This is just one of the tools the organization of time, which helped me a lot to succeed in a certain life span. To understand, it works for you or not, you need to try. Good luck!

Books on the topic:

• «Think like a mathematician. How to solve any problems quickly and efficiently"Barbara Oakley.
• «How to get my affairs in order. The Art of stress-free productivity"David Allen.
• «The brain is freed. How to prevent overloading and to use their potential to the full power"Theo Kompernolle.
• «What can be 100 days"Armen Petrosyan.