How to find a time that has long wanted to do

It often happens that you can not find time for self-development, their health, communication with family and This spend a few hours in useless meetings and stultify entertainment like paging tape Instagram.

If you add up all the useless checks news feeds in social networks in the past month, this time will be enough to study the basics of a foreign language.

This is due to many factors, but primarily on the inability to prioritize and see the whole picture. So the first thing you need to understand where your time goes.

Find out what you spend time

Try to schedule things on your calendar. In contrast to the usual to-do list, your calendar, you can set a time frame for each task and clearly understand how much time is spent on daily activities.

Plan your entire day, taking into account the work, the way to it, lunch, time to socialize and relax in the evening. If possible, sign their work tasks on every half-hour: meeting, call, visit.

When you set up a schedule to be a clear plan, where you can find a window to carry out their affairs before you.

If you use Google Calendar, you can make it even easier with the new function "Objectives". You need to set a target and determine how many hours a week are you willing to devote to it, and the calendar itself you will find free time.

The program adapts to your schedule and advance warning of the classroom so that you can change, move and postpone implementation of the target.

As you progress you can see how many times a week did you manage to do something in order to achieve their goal. Progress motivates you and makes not miss classes.

If you are constantly putting off the planned business, so the tool does not work and the problem should look elsewhere. For example, in the field of priorities. Do you really need something that you just can not start?

prioritize

To understand whether you need to do really, who does not work to perform, try to apply the matrix Eisenhower. The essence of this method is to distribute all of its business into four squares.

1. Important and urgent. It matters that are important to achieve your goals, and do they have to be right now. Ideally, this square must be empty, because if you are good at planning your business, everything important is done in advance and not at the last minute.
2. Important and not urgent. This box will contain your main list. Include here work issues, communication with relatives, health maintenance measures, physical activity, meditation, self development. All of the cases on the list should be useful.
3. Urgent and unimportant. In this case leave the square, which do not benefit you personally, but it is required to perform. It may be useless meetings, laborious household chores, boring tasks at work that do not contribute to your development and promotion.
4. Unimportant and not urgent. There are things that have no value and does not require you to perform, such as viewing the entertaining YouTube-videos or computer games.

Assign all tasks into four squares and see where were the things that you've always wanted to do. They are important for your career, health, well-being, relationships? If yes, then put them in the box "Important and not urgent."

And in order to free up time for what's really important, you need to get rid of the maximum of affairs in the bottom two squares. If the case of the last square, you can simply erase, then urgent and unimportant tasks you still have to perform. Although there is another option: to find them a performer.

Free time for what's important

In all cases occur periodically, the fulfillment of which brings pleasure and tangible benefits: pick up and take something from the other end of the city, re-stick wallpaper in the hallway, fill a large table. On their implementation takes a few hours, which can be spent more usefully. The best choice in this situation - to delegate or, in other words, to throw this problem in the one who gladly fulfill it.

Here are some options:

• Ask your family if they can help you. Perhaps it seems boring just you and a friend or relative will undertake with pleasure for him.
• Try to switch tasks with colleagues. Look to see if your colleagues routine tasks that you can perform faster and with more fun than your own. If so, try to change.
• Hire performers for their task.

The latter method can be called the purchase of his time. You pay a third-party people to free up time for more important tasks.

There is a special service YouDoWhich helps you quickly find the artist for nearly all services.

To find a person who will perform for you urgent but unimportant matters to you personally, you need to create a task, describe the items and specify how much you are willing to pay. Next, your ad will respond a few artists, and you will read reviews about their work and choose the right.

While YouDo not only seek out executors for your problems, but also offers a secure transaction with the clearing settlement. You transfer the money to the account of the service, and after the execution of the order they are sent to the performer. As a result, you do not need to search for cash to pay, and your executor can not disappear with your money.

YouDo is useful also for very urgent and important tasks - cases marked ASAP, blinking red. Due to the mobile app for iOS and Android, you can instantly create a task: specify the parameters and price, write "! Urgent" in the title, and then find the artist.

As practice shows, the app actually saves.

Of course, if you do not burn deadlines, and you can think about whether or not to give out their tasks outsourced, because it will have to pay for. If you are sorry for the money, just figure out how much is an hour of your working time.

How to save time and money through outsourcing

Let's say you earn 60,000 rubles a month. If you have a normal 40-hour working week, an hour of your time is worth about 360 rubles. Let's look at several options, which give the case for outsourcing is cheaper than doing yourself.

1. Repair and home affairs

Repair plumbing and electrics, Wallpapering, installation of new furniture - you will save a lot of nerves and time when trust such cases masters.

For example, you need to remove an old chandelier and hang a new one, but you're not quite imagine how it's done. In addition, you do not have a drill. First you take the time to find a drill and go for it, and then half a day trying to hang a chandelier in the home. To all this, it may take about five hours, and it is 1800 rubles and a lot of experiences. On YouDo you can find masters for 1000 rubles, which come with their instruments and quickly will do.

2. Bring-take

Carry documents, pick up dry cleaning, deliver a package, send letters - leave these things to the courier, and you will save a lot of time.

Let's say you need to get documents or any things. On the way there and back will take you about two hours and will lose 720 rubles in cash. In YouDo you can easily find a courier on a job for 400 rubles and 320 rubles to save a bit of nerve cells, spent in traffic jams.

3. Virtual assistance

Translate text into a foreign language, to score the data in the table, make the transcript record, create presentation - these and many other routine tasks too, can give the perpetrators, though on a fairly best prices.

For example, decoding two hours record may take you about 12 hours of operation. In monetary terms, this is 4320 rubles. YouDo on the artist can be found to decrypt two hours for 1 500 rubles and 820 rubles to save or 2 12:00 your life!

And do not be afraid of poor performance. Service ensures that the work took only proven and honest performers.

As you can see, outsourcing can save a lot of hours, the main thing - to spend it usefully. In free time, you can engage in self-development, to devote time career, your business, or to have second jobs. The latter may well be done using the same service YouDo.

You can register on the site or app as a performer and to offer their services on a par with other users YouDo. Tutoring, design and web development, legal assistance, photo and video shooting - is looking for a variety of professionals, and you might earn a his hobby.

Action plan

Now that we have the tools that will help you free up time for the important things, but now draw up a specific plan of action:

1. Make a to-do list for the next day. Use the calendar to scatter them in time.
2. Distribute the case from its list of four squares Eisenhower matrix.
3. Remove from the list of things that fall in the fourth square of the "unimportant and not urgent."
4. Look for implementing the tasks of the square "Urgent and unimportant matters" among colleagues, relatives or masters to YouDo.

Correctly plan time, eliminate useless, and you will loose a few hours for what is really important.

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