What is the catch effort and how to stop it in the fall: tips for freelance
Work And Study / / December 25, 2019
Trying to simplify your life, we often get the opposite result. As a result, productivity is at zero, and the energy no longer remains. Learn how to avoid it.
Anna Osharova
Head of software services FL.ru.
Pitfalls of effort - this mental trap that we ourselves and we place in an attempt to improve their lives. But in fact, we come to completely opposite result - psychological exhaustion and constant fatigue.
Working at freelancing, it is very easy to confuse not only the day and night, but also the customers, just by sending someone else's job to someone else. And the blame for everything - this notorious trap effort.
Most people make too many stupid minor cases: check email 10 times an hour, diverted to messengers messages. To this is added phone calls, letters on general questions and discussion with the customer work principles. And what we have at the end of the day? Committed action - Hundreds of closed tasks - one, and you feel like squeezed lemon. So-so productivity.
How to avoid such situations and to cease to mock you?
1. stop abut
We are a child say, "just the beginning - bringing the matter to the end." And this postulate is sitting in my head for many years. But if during the examination of the brief and the discussion of the first requirements of the customer, it is clear that the subject is not viable, hypothesis is fundamentally contrary to the market situation, and the discount can not be scaled to all customers, why hang back and defend idea? Stop and focus on the actual situation.
2. Stop being a perfectionist
"Better - the enemy of good" - even in the XVI century Italian writer Giovanni said. And he was absolutely right. Endless pursuit of perfection does not give a better result, but only pushes to unsustainable waste of time.
The base remains Pareto principle80% of the results achieved with 20% of the effort, and not vice versa. Therefore, give more time planning time, not "pack" of concepts.
Vyacheslav Savitsky, copywriterIf a lot of work, it is necessary to cut the cost of the customer. When the call to the client the total amount, it saves time. Now we even talk on the phone only after payment. And I do not spend time on endless conversations with potential customers.
3. Do not wait for inspiration
We often wait for some kind of symbol, sign, ring, inspiration, and this fix attention. No, Moon in Capricorn will not help you. take and do.
4. Do not try to change the irreversible
Often we want to return the "last train": you do not have time to properly prepare for the competition task, and the customer chose a competitor, or could not find the right words to convince the client to take your design. All of these failures would be desirable to calculate, convert. But if you continue to think about it, the reversion of the trap will be extremely difficult to get out. It is better to accept the situation, to draw conclusions and to go further.
Maria Filimonova, an accountant and a young motherBefore starting to work closely with the customer, determine the time to communicate, distribute all your clients by the hour, and work according to the schedule to phone. Urgency - it does not matter. Quality is important. Donoso this fact to the customer.
5. Not to be proactive
Do not hurry. Embarking on the project planning, which will begin in six months - means process, not realizing that the same result will be achieved later. Council "to solve problems as they come" just about it.
6. Do not pull the time
This resistance inevitably begins in the morning: the alarm rings at 7:00, get up really do not want, but the desire to extend sleep "Little bit more" only delayed the moment and does not assume any benefit. So, before you once again to press the alarm button deferred, stop and think: "Do I have to lie so still for five minutes? What will it give me? It will help in your work? Improve your life? "
Elisha Samretov, mobile application developerIt is not necessary to grasp at once for all - is not productive. I prefer to divide the tasks by importance and urgency. Similar to GTD method, but in a simplified form.
7. Do not build imaginary scenarios in my head
Traps formulating thoughts forces us to pronounce what appears to be true. But count all the moves in advance is impossible.
We try on several roles in disquieting situation: for example, we present the first meeting with the customer, to whom we offer to develop the site. Mentally we've scrolled head dozens of fictional scenarios and try to predict all kinds of scenarios, but such "mnogohodovochka" entails only stress and concern. Therefore it is better not to dig into the mind, and to act according to the situation.
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