How to work much more efficiently by using the calendar
Productivity / / December 23, 2019
Are you sure that the list of tasks on paper or in the annex - it's the best way to do all that is necessary? In one of previous articles we talked about the fact that this method is not ideal, and the calendar is suitable for this purpose better. Here are three more good reason to plan your day in the calendar.
Psychology push-notifications
If you ever tried shareware games on your smartphone, then you know how effective can be push-notification. Since the main task of this game - to pull out of you a little moneyDevelopers add special reminders that you often come back to the game and eventually bought any resources or achievements. Notifications come to you every time "you have accumulated enough mana," "Do not know his quarry," "you had two of the dragon." And it works very well, because these free applications collect mad amounts of money on sales inside the game.
As just noticed in the article The Psychology Of Notifications on TechCrunch, push-notification act upon us as well as the call to the Pavlov's dog: forming a conditioned reflex.
Alert us to set up a certain reaction. So that when a notification comes next, we did not hesitate to respond to him in a certain way. That is why the notice of matters on the calendar will be an excellent tool for increasing productivity. Having planned anything using the calendar and setting the reminder time, you create a private push-notification.
At a given time, you'll receive a quick and effective reminder of which is automatically followed by your response - rapid concentration and task.
A sense of the limited time
If you occasionally think about productivity and looking for a way to increase it, you have probably heard about the technique Pomodoro. In short, this method of time management, when you are 25 minutes doing one thing, and then 5 minutes of rest. After four such sessions you arrange a rest for 10 minutes.
There are several reasons why this technique works well, but in the context of this article is important one of them, namely the sense of urgency that creates the timer. Placing within sight of the clock and watched as funneling minutes, you begin to realize how important every moment.
Planning Affairs using the calendar has a similar effect. When you get a reminder, you start working, knowing that you have a very limited amount of time to perform this task. You can do it only now and then comes a reminder of the next task, and you will have to go to its implementation.
You see the following tasks and realize that they are important and must be implemented. It helps you not to postpone things for later and not to stretch the time of their execution.
Thanks to the calendar, created a feeling of immediate and urgent cases, so you longer remains focused on the task at hand and do not make unscheduled interruptions.
Comprehensive description of the problem
The main problem of to-do lists - lack of a comprehensive problem description, priority and time necessary to its implementation. Of course, you can specify the time and priority on a piece next to the task, but without visual reinforcements in the form of notifications it will not work so well. So you most likely will be periodically to reflect and look at your to-do list, to find out what to do next.
But if you distribute all the time tasks in your calendar, you will not have such issues. You never stop to think what to do next. One glance at the calendar - and you all know.
During the next week, try to plan each day in the calendar and set reminders for each task. Do not plan to do in your mind, because in the calendar, everything is much clearer. you you see how much time you have and what tasks you really will be able to perform.
Try to use the calendar for seven days, and tell us about your experience in the comments.