How to get rid of the "syndrome of the White Rabbit"
Productivity / / December 23, 2019
"Oh, my mustache! Oh, my foot! I'm late, I'm quite late! "- remember where it came from? White Rabbit with a clock on a chain, in a funny jacket and completely hysterical tone in the voice of "Alice in Wonderland" - such s seem to themselves at a time when late. And when you are late more often and everywhere - this is a sign that something needs to change. We try to give a few simple recommendations in this regard.
1. Put the alarm clock 15 minutes earlier, and the clock - 15 minutes ahead
Well, so what if you wait for the person with whom you have an appointment, a job interview or negotiations. Life teaches us that at the most inopportune moment happens jam, accident, knock out electricity in the house, stuck elevator, stop walking streetcars, in taxi will not get through, and favorite motorcycle stalls (and a lot more will happen in this crucial day / time / year). Before the special responsibility of meetings and events at all good half-hour head start to throw.
2. Create reminders to yourself
In any smartphone has a built-in reminders, alarms and timers. Use them: enough to seek some abstract ideal software with which - by pressing just one button - you will suddenly be able to remember everything and control. your phone developers have already made it quite smart to help to plan your day. Why are you still looking for some complicated way to not forget anything?
3. Lists, "tomatoes" and note pad
I have already dealt with the reasons why paper notebook with ease udelyvaet all mobile planners and soft karaoke gadgets to work with the tasks. If you are totally against excess paper in your home, get yourself a software counterpart. Not suitable desktop version - try mobile. None of this is not suitable - install the application with a 25-minute time interval control (or just use an ordinary timer of your iPhone / android, it is also nice). Just do not look for excuses why you half a day before tupite enabled screen - and just can not do two simple tasks. Low motivation, procrastination and unloved thing - that's all the explanation. And not the fact that "this application is inconvenient to me, here - not like it, but for me it's a pity to pay $ 2."
4. Ask people often remind myself
I know that such a blockage at work. Before joining the industry, where 90% of all problems and affairs of the work itself exists only in the form of numbers, letters, tables and figures on the screen. Often the blockage does not provoke you yourself and other people around you. Remind yourself of those who are "rolled up and forgotten." Ask them to also remind myself, if they need something constructive and productive to you. Not too intrusive, not more than 1 time per day - but remind, if it comes to important tasks. People tend to forget to score and even late: the world is not perfect, and your task is not to alter it. Cool, if you find people who strictly adhere to the terms and obligations of the word. But it will not always. Therefore, a reminder (in the form of a timer, a call, a letter or a message on Skype) - this is normal.
5. Take 1 case per 1 hour
Multitasking - not an empty phrase and not a fashionable term. Long gone are the days when people come to work, sit down at the table, I opened the form, put on sleeves - 1 day 1 assorted pile of papers and doing 1 topic. No so long ago does not work. Calls, appointments, texts, many texts, a number of projects, three different editors and three chief editor, and one you - that's OK (check for yourself :)). But if you do not want to get lost or get crazy - 1 hour bring from start to finish 1 task. 1 Pass the text. Turn 1 article. Write 1 work plan. Ring up people to 1 interview. If you are running 5-6-8-10 hours a day - make best 5 cases regardless of the term, but qualitatively, than 10-20 - but not completely. Every day should be at least 3-5 completed 100% of the tasks. Let them be small. Let them be intermediate. But they have to be made at 100%.
And most importantly: White Rabbit is constantly fuss and nervous. Do not breed panic. Anyone who panics a lot and says a lot about how much he had affairs today - in fact, just exquisitely prokrastiniruet, and nothing else.