How successful people manage their time

Where does the time? We often ask ourselves this question. Looking for a balance between work and life, trying to optimize everything, but in the end just go and again you give personal time to the altar of the work. Why is that? Is there a way out? Surely there are, in fact, there is talent, the ability to keep up everything and everywhere. And whether it is the talent? Maybe the magic? Not really. They are people, not superheroes, just do something more accurate, and this "something" in the amount enable they still have time, without experiencing additional stress and maintaining a good mood on weekend.

Laura Vanderkam - author of a series of books written on the basis of interviews c the most successful people of our time. They are better than others have learned time management skills, and hence life. It turned out that all of these people, whether it is the creator of GTD methodology by David Allen or CEO of the Pepsi, using the same techniques and technology.

Lead time tracking

Spending one interview after another, Laura again and again heard the same advice. It seems that successful people are obsessed with one question: "What else I could do for that hour?". They plan their time, and then monitor and analyze the time spent.

The first question you should ask yourself is: "Where is actually out of my time?". Then we do not need your reasons and suggestions. You just takes and finds out which in fact disappears while. How? You do not get this information, lying on the couch and wondering about the possible time spent on the things that you vaguely remember.

To know the truth, you need to keep track of time. Hourly.

This uncompromising approach could have a sobering effect on you or will drive you into depression. But in any case he runs.

You can not rely on your brain in a matter of time. All you need to fix. This strategy helps to solve other problems, including obesity. Pursued in 2012 weight loss program gave an unambiguous result: participants who were food journal, lose weight much more effectively than those who neglected logging. Fixing consumed food awakens in man the responsibility for what he eats, and it also works with time. Leading Time magazine, you will feel responsible for the pointless hours spent.

time accounting conceals another significant plus. You finally find out how long it takes you to a particular case in reality, and not based on your optimistic assumptions.

If every day at 10 am in your plans for a duration of 60 minutes of the meeting, but in practice you never not fit even in 90 minutes, then it is time to reconsider your day to stop and plan something to 11:00.

Another plus time recording - the ability to see the optimal time windows for specific tasks. What hours are you most meetings? I - in the morning. So, I will perform the most difficult task in the morning.

So we dealt with taking into account the time and are conducting their mikrohronologiyu daily events. What's next? We need a plan! And not some little simple plan, and a specific plan.

Plan your entire week

How does the activity of the executive director of the sales? The Indian study showed that the efficacy of the company's growing, if the CEO is working longer hours. It is expected, and at the same time sad. But that's a far more interesting statistic: the effectiveness of the company grew a lot more if the CEO spent these hours in accordance with the plan.

Cal Newport, a professor at Georgetown University and a guru organization acknowledges and agrees with these conclusions: "To-Do list is not enough. Cases need to bind to the time. "

How do you plan? Think about two things: what you are good and what makes you happy?

Successful people spend the greatest possible percentage of time on their core responsibilities, trying to ignore, minimize or delegate everything else.

They spend time on tasks in which they are the best, and this leads to meaningful results. The accountant should consider the writer - writing. Any other activity fit into this rule.

Laura also considers it necessary to create a long list of activities that bring you pleasure. Sounds strange, but it works. Instead of trying to think of something on the go, you simply select from a list and added to the schedule.

So, the plan is ready. Now you can go to one trick that allows you to receive a positive return over the long term.

Spend the morning rituals

What is a morning ritual? This is an important, but not urgent occupation, perhaps without any deadline or Process Organization, repeated. You do not scold if you do not do it to a precisely defined date. Most often these classes are the long-term planning and sports. We understand that these things are important, they need to do, but always postponed.

It turns out that the majority of people on an abstract notion of willpower is more pronounced in the morning, and such studies often require it intrinsic motivation. Set aside time for morning rituals for these classes, you will get positive results in the long term. You can call it a long-term investment. One of the interlocutors of Laura during an interview said: "Every day I work in the morning - a career."

What's next? We sorted out with time, planning and morning chores. It's time to get down to business even tougher.

Plan your weekend

Right now many of you reading this article may be very indignant. WHAT? My weekend! MY FREE TIME!

Calm down. You do not offer to work weekends. Just rest, too, must be planned, otherwise it may not happen. There are some people (many of them), which store the output of only one thing: "I tore myself from the bed, and there is already the weekend came to an end."

You will not be happier spending a weekend in idleness, and statistical studies on the subject and talk more about often people do on weekends is not what brings them happiness and pleasure, and the fact that the easiest way do. Obviously, the easiest way to do nothing, and so you need to plan a vacation to finally replace rotting on the couch at something joyful.

What is the plan for the weekend? In fact, there is nothing serious. Plan 3-5 events.

The Danish study found that people spending the weekend at the exits and hikes, happier than those who do not actively resting on the weekend. This is to be expected. Surprisingly, the level of happiness was higher than not during the holidays, namely, waiting. Even if before the event were still two months.

pleasant moment of expectation makes us happy. Even if you have not done something nice from scheduled for the weekend, you still experienced the happiness of waiting. Happiness and laziness as well!

How to beat the Monday terror waiting

Friday night - it's fun, because the day off tomorrow. Saturday - it's fun, because the day off tomorrow. Sunday? Damn, tomorrow, Monday. It may happen that you wake up on Sunday morning already with the thought of Monday and will suffer all day. Studies have shown that Sunday - the saddest day of the week. How to turn it into a positive emotional day? Plan on it entertainment activities that are better than others allow you to relax and forget, but do not interfere with wake up in good condition Monday morning. ;)