10 ideas on the organization of time for spontaneous people
Productivity / / December 23, 2019
Elena Lustina
A psychologist, a coach, editor of personality types MyType, Co-author of the project on time management for the irrational.
How to determine your personality type
When it comes to time management, I often hear: "Yes, this time management! How many times have I tried to keep a diary and a plan for everything - I is not working. Everything happens as happening. "
Common situation? And yet you:
- wondering how people can work eight hours a same mode, doing one thing;
- amounting to a clear schedule for a day, will never live on it, everything changes on the fly;
- conducts several notebooks, notepads, List for - it will somehow help, but not much;
- You can not work in a bad mood and quite spontaneous;
- not like a long time to do something alone, like change;
- hard work because it is necessary, but is able to "want" ready to move mountains;
- You begin to finally do something with the approach of the deadline (to sit down for an important project the night before his passing - it is in your spirit);
- reach their targets are usually later than up to, and during the study or iterate a lot of options;
- You need a special mood, a cup of coffee or call a friend to get to work (this special rituals that set you on the job);
- You feel boring to live according to the plan.
Congratulations! All this indicates that you are a special person. Career coach Emily Vapnik in his speech at the TED names of people like you, multipotentsialami. And Barbara Sher, author of several bestsellers, including "refuse to choose," says that you People scanner.
The psychology of different personality types first described by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung. Then, his ideas were complemented by American women Isabel Myers and Katharine Briggs - the creator of the well-known system MBTI. And the former Soviet Union of Young's ideas originated socionics. These approaches allocate a total of 16 types of people (and only half of them will be spontaneous about personality types in more detail you can learn from journal). Each person has their own individual personal style based on a certain ratio of the eight characteristics:
- extraversion - introversion;
- sensation - intuition;
- Logic - feeling;
- judgment - perception.
Together, these personality characteristics explain why we live and operate certain way as it appears our uniqueness and the direction in which we are interested to discover their potential.
personality type | ENFP (communicator, journalist) | ISTJ (organizer guardian) |
Characteristics | E (Extraversion) - extrovert; N (iNtuition) - intuit; F (Feeling) - feeling; P (Perception) - perceiving |
I (Introversion) - introvert; S (Sensing) - sensing; T (Thinking) - thinking; J (Judging) - ordering |
Key qualities and characteristics | Friendliness, good imagination, brightness, emotion, energy, inspiration, expression, idea generation, risk, sensibility, openness | Fairness, pragmatism, objectivity, consistency, consistency, diligence, punctuality, accuracy, detail |
The man on the left - a scanner. Active, energetic, sociable, creative supermultipotentsial. People of this kind among the many designers, journalists, presenters, as well as psychology and HR. Their main focus - it's inspiration, communication, communication between people.
The man on the right - it is a complete contrast multipotentsialu. Meticulous, organized, methodical. A man of this type may be, and as a software engineer and manager. His main focus - to restore order and structure the system.
As you can imagine, these are two completely different types of people. People from the second column will not come in the head to remake themselves and become as the people of the first type. But spontaneous people from the first column, following formulaic ideas about what is important to be organized and consistent, the risk of losing all the energy to implement multipotentsiala if they seek to alter themselves.
Instead, should become aware of their dignity and learn to control his world and the endless desires. To curb the elements of chaos around you, use appropriate methods of time management.
How to organize your time, if you are a spontaneous person
1. Examine your natural rhythms
Work eight hours monotone and efficiently - this is not about you. During the day there are always peaks when your engine is running at full, and there are failures when the creative energy at zero.
Watch yourself at least a week and answer yourself, at what time (morning, afternoon, evening), you have to lift forces which tasks cause a burst of energy, and what - recession. Organize your life so as to take into account the natural rhythms. The productive periods to solve complex and important tasks that move you forward, and in obvious downturns switch, relax and gain strength for a new round or be engaged in the decision of a simple routine tasks.
2. Scan the situation and possibilities hidden in it
There are times when everything goes with a scratch. And there, on the contrary, successful moments when the result exceeds all expectations. Your talent is to use the current situation, rather than a rigid plan.
Trust me: if you feel that it is now time for some things, calls, meetings, acquaintances - follow impulse rather than wait for the scheduled hour.
3. Highlight the three most important things for a day
It will be effective every day and move to the right targets in the long term. In the morning write down on a piece and place it in front of the three main business for the day. Follow them in any order, but by the end of the day, check yourself, all three tasks must always be made. So you get used to the awareness, will not lose focus and divert attention from the main, and in the end of the month will understand how great progress.
4. Synchronize the programs on your phone and computer
Recorded in the case diary, but it is not at hand, and you can not tell if available for the meeting. Brought a note in the notebook, I went to the meeting with a diary, in which time is not recorded, and in the end do not know again its provisional capacity.
Use technology for the benefit of: all meetings, events with a time-fix on the calendar, not in the notes or reminders.
You will immediately see their employment within a week, a month, a year, it's easier to plan and negotiate with others.
Be sure to configure access to the calendar on your computer and on the phone. So you will have a handy calendar and automatic notifications will help prepare everything in advance and do not be late.
5. Remember: you do not plan for someone, but for themselves
List for Affairs You can carry the phone in a diary on your computer, or even in my head. It all depends on your industry.
I enjoy writing in a notebook - buy a small notebook and carry it with you. Having interest in the applications on your phone - use them to organize things. Do not consider it necessary to plan the home affairs - do it from time to time.
Define a set of handy tools to fit your needs, and do not use options, are not peculiar to you. Remember that there are no standards in planning, organizing tasks, your system should be convenient to you first of all.
6. Visualize
Nice creative method, which gives the opportunity to see a complete picture of the project and structure their own thoughts, highlight the most important and essential.
You want to try to draw mind map right now? Do exercise.
Take a sheet of paper. In the center, write "I" and the circle in the circle. Now write and draw a circle in all important areas of life for you and interests, for example: work, health, family, sports, finance, private business, education and so on - that is mainly just for you. Now write down the 2-3 goal in each of the items.
Then set the relationship. For example, the sport is associated with health, finances - with the work and training.
5-10 minutes, and in front of you a visual map of your interest and driving directions. You can use mind maps techniques for structuring all processes and tasks. You can draw by hand or create a card special applicationsSuch as Coogle, Xmind or MindMeister.
7. Perform a huge number of cases
So many interests that want to catch! But how to do it? Try system "Avtofokuc" by Max Foster. It is perfect for spontaneous people as takes into account personal characteristics: a dislike of hard plans; ability to work effectively when it likes; the large number of interests and a variety of tasks.
How it works:
- Take a notepad or notebook in line. The most convenient for the page work, which lines 25-30.
- Record absolutely all the things that you would like to do. One line - one thing. Personal, working, small, big things - it does not matter, you need to write down everything that is on this point in mind. When new ideas and tasks appear, write them on the last line.
- Now, when all things are in one notebook, get to work on the tasks. Look line by line scan list. At that moment, when he felt an interest, a desire to perform some task, the host for it. This is called "Auto Focus" - focusing of consciousness on what really matters at the moment.
- If you started the business and fulfill it to the end, cross it from the list. If you have started, but not completed, cross at the same place and enter it at the last blank line.
- If you decide to refuse to carry out any business, select the marker (then be able to analyze what kind of problem).
- When all the tasks performed on the page, place the top of the cross.
Try it, it's a great method.
8. Move to the larger goals of the steps
In order to achieve large and distant targets or when working on complex projects represent important advance, what, when and to what extent you have to do. You agree that without proper training will not be able to achieve something meaningful, such as to buy an apartment, to change profession, to organize a conference or write a book. But it is necessary to break those big goals into tasks and sub-tasks, they seem to be quite achievable.
For those who like to draw, it works well as a visualization of the target timeline. You put the point A (it is your current position) and point B with goals and timetables. On the line you mark the main stages of the project and the date. This will motivate you to meet the deadline, the case will be guaranteed to move.
9. exercise
Paradoxically? What does time management, you might say. And you will be wrong. Many gurus efficiency suggests that it sports allow them to stay in shape, get vital energy to achieve the objectives.
Sports teach us to overcome obstacles and rise above itself, exercise increases endurance, due to regular exercise develops willpower. As a result of the experience of sporting success it gives us the strength and cheerfulness.
10. Enjoy!
This is the most important thing, because the energy - our all. You know yourself what state and mood of your best work. So, if things do not go, it's time to do something nice for yourself, to recharge, to create a new high productivity and complete the work in the best condition.
I hope that by the time the idea of the organization c taking into account personal features to help you work and live with pleasure.