Time management in simple terms. chronometry

Timing - is the first step in the development of time management. As the primary examination of the patient, which will let the rough, but the diagnosis. Will show to what doctor to go further. More often than not have to go to the "surgeon" :)

What do you spend your time during the day?

Hmm... An hour on the social network, for four hours at work an hour to cook food. Accuracy of the answers will be 300 per cent! Why is that?

The fact that the perception of time is subjective. Games, social networking, videos on YouTube - it's addictive. And time is running out. At the same time work on a boring report can last only 20 minutes, and will seem like an eternity.

The time we spend on useful lessons, we tend to exaggerate. Conversely, the harm we underestimate the time wasters. That is, the error is always in a harmful way.

Here we will help and timing!

Timing - it?

You go and write down what you do and for how long. All day.

For example:

• I called Vasya - talking about soccer - 15 minutes;
• I went for bread - 10 minutes;
• I read Layfhaker - 40 minutes;
• programmed database - 50 min.

Error

5 minutes - more than enough.

Even rough timing is extremely useful.

How long to do it?

Of course, there are people who are timing a lifetime. But I, for one, do not.

2-3 days - enough to ...

... get the big picture!

Yes, you get a clear picture of what happened to you, how to allocate your time.

You will see how much real time do you spend on:

• social networks;
• games;
• calls;
• cooking food;
• reading;
• "Zomboyaschik";
• sport.

You will see how much you are actually working.

In 100% of cases, a person is surprised, looking at these results. Or horrified. This is even better. But now he knows his weaknesses. It is most important!

As everyone use it?

I once saw my weak spot - the phone calls.

I am an extrovert and a chatterbox. Many extroverts when talking to lose all sense of time. Not surprisingly, I was spending 1-2 hours per day on an empty chatter.

It's bad to be like this!

I took the following steps:

1. All your friends and partners, I announced that the preferred method of communication - electronic mail.
2. When the call is still required, I am preparing for him, constitutes the main conversation points, a list of questions. When I sit down to talk - a cheat sheet handy.
3. I study to be brief. Help again cribs conversations. You're just running away all the prepared questions. When they come to an end, the time to interrupt the conversation.

What to use for timing?

There are several variants.

1. Notebook, pen and watch. In the course of the day's we apply to all of our classes.
2. Dictaphone. This option I used, as the biggest promoter of the use of the voice recorder.
3. Different services and gadgets. We live in the era of Big Data. There are more gadgets that monitor our activity, are stuffed with a variety of sensors. I think that in five years it will be possible to conduct the timing is completely automatic. And at the end of the day to get a nice report diagram with the distribution of our activities during the day. In the meantime, you can install the program RescueTime.

in total

You can not manage what you can not measure.

Where to start to build your time management? With timing!

With this handle even ninth grade.

Write in the comments!

And you spent the timing? How much time do you spend on social networking sites, on TV, etc.?

P.S.

A series of articles "Time Management easy" words finished!

Here is the complete list of all articles:

• 5 reasons for your procrastination;
• Always say "no";
• task groups;
• Do not attempt to gobble the whole cow!;
• 5 steps to ensure that complete more in the same time;
• priority tasks;
• Checklists;
• 11 reasons to throw out their task lists;
• gamification;
• Out of sync with the flow;
• Automation.

Thank you for reading!