Day full reset: what it is and how to organize it
Productivity / / December 23, 2019
If you have thrown good habits, and all of the goals seem unattainable, it's time to take a break.
What it is
Cases are accumulated, you prevail nothing, stress increases. In this case, you need to make the day break, advises The Art of Manliness. Take a day off during the week to get my affairs in order. Of course, you could do it on a Saturday or Sunday, but it is not effective. Over the weekend, you probably can find other things to do, you will want to spend time with friends and family. In addition, some of the list can be done only on weekdays.
reboot Day - a quiet eight hours trying to restore life back on track and fix everything that went wrong.
This line, which separates the past from the future, and charges motivation.
how to organize
Highlight all the things eight hours. Optionally, it is engaged in every 60 minutes. If handled faster, go to the next step. But if you do not fit in a single hour, to temporarily postpone the matter and move on. It is important to go through all the stages of a reboot. Incomplete fines will be finish for the seventh hour.
1. Uber home
Order in the house - the first step to the order in life. When you get rid of the excess and put all the places, it will be easier to organize and their thoughts. Just do not get carried away, do not spend on cleaning all day.
- Do the washing up.
- Take away all the excess with work surfaces in the kitchen and wipe them.
- Put in place the laundry.
- Fill the bed.
- Take out the garbage buckets.
- Vacuum the place where visible dust and litter.
- Disassemble the accumulated mail.
2. Vyplesnite thoughts on paper
Sometimes we stop to move towards your goals, because we have too many unfinished cases and unanswered questions. Day after day they revolve in our minds. It is tiring and distracting from the important tasks.
Think about the different spheres of life and write down what you need to do in each. Write down all the questions that did not give you peace of mind lately. For example:
- How to do squat?
- What can I eat when ketogenic diet?
- When is it better to go on holiday and how much it will cost?
- What haircut is best suited?
- Which book to start reading?
Do such records on paper or in any zametochnike smartphone.
3. Perform as many cases from their list of tasks
Mark with an asterisk or question each case, which can be handled in less than ten minutes. For example:
- To make an appointment with a doctor.
- View a video on how to do sit-ups.
- Call a plumber.
- Pay the bills.
- Make a backup of your system.
- Pack inappropriate things that you need to return to the store.
- Email a friend (partner) about the meeting.
Try to do as many points, but after an hour, go to the next step.
4. Consider the long-term goals
When you let go of the small problems, it's time to move on to more serious purpose. Ask yourself these questions:
- I moved forward?
- I still want to achieve this goal?
- What action can I do today to get closer to it?
- over a habit I can start work today to more rapidly achieve the desired?
If you do not have big goals, spend this hour on it to define them.
5. Develop (or recycle) routine
Without a daily routine day passes restless and unproductive. In the evening, it seems that one could do a lot more.
You can plan things for hours, but such a plan is just frustrating. After all, during the working day often unforeseen challenges. It is more convenient to make daily in the morning and evening. Decide how much you will go to bed and wake up, than take two hours ahead of bedtime and upon awakening. Make a specific plan of action.
Perhaps you already have such a plan, but to follow it is impossible. Most likely, he no longer goes with your lifestyle. Recycle it to make it fit for the new schedule. For example, if you do not have time to perform some items, leave only the most important. It is better to do less than to worry that you generally do not have time.
6. Think they do not go astray again
Do not rely only on the day of the reboot. Think that knocked you out of a rut: the mess in the house, Internet addiction, The lack of clear regulations, or something else. Make a plan to deal with this problem. It is unlikely that you can often take days off, so that resort to restart only in extreme cases.
7. Clean up all the tails
If you do not have time to do something important in the previous stages, now is the time to do it.
8. Relax
After a productive day treat yourself to something that will help the brain and body to relax. Take a nap, go for a massage, take a bath or go for a walk.
Engage in something that gives you pleasure, such as check your favorite TV series. Do not take this as an indulgence. From time to time it is necessary to relax and recharge. After a break you with new forces will take up their goals.
see also
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