Do it and you can beat procrastination

Chapter 31 Your Time is Yours: Super Time Management (4)
Mr. Li works in an advertising company, and he goes to the company 1 hour earlier every day.He said: "I did this by accident." He used to like to read newspapers at home and subscribed to two newspapers. Every day he read the newspapers while eating breakfast, which probably took a full hour.However, this was only a cursory glance at the newspaper.

So, he wanted to simply read the newspaper after arriving at the company. The company subscribed to the newspaper, so he could read more content.Due to rushing to work and rushing home every day, there is no time to read newspapers in the company.Therefore, he began to go to the company early so that he could read the newspaper in the company.

With a slight change in this way, Mr. Li found that the effect is very good. Not only can he quietly read twice as many newspapers as before in the company, but he can also breathe fresher air in the morning.On the way to work, the traffic is so smooth that he has never felt so comfortable.

From then on, he went to the company an hour earlier every day, converting all the time spent at home and on the road into efficient time.When he started to go to work, he had already made all the preparations and devoted himself to the busy work with full energy.

In his own words: "I arrived an hour early, but I used this hour to do two hours of work."

When you travel at other times, you should also consider the peak traffic period and try to avoid it.For example, when flying for business, try to schedule your flight during off-peak hours so that you don't waste time waiting on the runway for takeoff or circling in the sky waiting to land.

・Lunch time is extended by 1 hour
Generally, the company's lunch break is scheduled from 11 o'clock to 1 o'clock in the afternoon.Therefore, every employee of the company must quickly settle lunch and rest during this period of time.However, due to too many people, often 1 hour is spent on lunch, and there is not much left.

If you go to lunch on time at 11 o'clock, then you only need 10 minutes to finish your lunch, because most people haven't started lunch yet, you can easily find a seat, and because there are fewer people, there is no standing around There are other employees who are waiting for the seat, so you will feel more at ease when eating.

From 12:1 noon to 1:[-] p.m., this period is considered a lunch break in other units or companies, so during this hour, there will be very few calls to disturb you, and there will be no things such as customer visits.You can use this time to deal with some things efficiently and summarize the work you have done in the morning.

In addition, according to the analysis of psychologists, people are most concentrated during the period from 11 am to 1 pm.Working during this time can greatly improve efficiency.However, few people notice this, and spend the prime time of this period of work doing some inefficient things, which is a great waste.

If you can notice this problem and make an adjustment to your lunch time, it will bring you many benefits.

·Usually buy gifts

When it comes to Chinese New Year, buying gifts for family members, relatives, and friends is an essential thing.When going to visit someone respected, it is only natural to bring him a gift.

Most people will buy gifts when they need them.But when buying gifts during the holidays, although there are various types of gifts, they are often overcrowded, and you may have to spend a whole day shopping for gifts.But when I buy gifts when I need them, the stores don’t have a lot of gifts. After shopping for a whole day, I still can’t find any gifts I like.In the end, it was nothing more than buying a gift at random to deal with it.

Successful people have unique skills even when buying gifts. They will buy back good gifts when they come across them in normal times. When they need them, they will choose the right ones and give them away.

Time management expert Eugene said: "I never buy gifts during the holidays. In normal times, when I see a gift I like, I will buy it. If I see a gift that I like very much, Even though I didn't know who I would gift it to at the time, I would have bought it first because I was sure someone would love it.

"I put all the presents I bought in a big box. My daughter always calls it a treasure box. Whenever a friend celebrates a birthday or a holiday, I find gifts for different friends from the treasure box, so I don’t have to go out and buy gifts, which saves me a lot of time and energy. I’ve been using this method for more than 30 years, and I think it’s a good time saver.”

Naomi Lord, general manager of the American Speakers Association, shares Eugene's approach, except that the general manager's treasure chest is larger than Eugene's.She has a special cabinet full of presents from her travels around the world.

She even cataloged these gifts on the computer and categorized them by item.When she needs to give a gift, she turns on the computer, checks the gift category, and then makes a decision, and she can pick out the ideal gift in a few minutes.This is really a brilliant method.

·Shopping in the supermarket at night

You consume many foods and other items every day, such as toilet paper, toothpaste, soap, and so on.Although these things seem inconspicuous, you actually consume them every day, so you have to spend time buying these things, and buying these things has become a necessary content in your life.

Now various types of supermarkets are located in every corner of the city, and going to the supermarket to buy daily necessities and food is the choice of most people.Generally, the time range for people to go shopping in the supermarket is mainly from 10 am to 6 pm. This time is also the busiest time for supermarket business and the most flow of people.During this period of time, there is always a long queue at the cash register of the supermarket. In some supermarkets with a booming business, this kind of "long queue" sometimes reaches 20 people. The shoppers can only move forward step by step until the end. It's your turn to pay.

For people who believe that efficiency is money, shopping in supermarkets and waiting in long lines for payment is a waste of time.Then, choosing the right time to go shopping in the supermarket has become an important issue for you to save time and improve efficiency.

Many supermarkets have extended shopping hours at night, or open all-day shopping services, so you can take advantage of this advantage and go shopping in the supermarket when other customers are less, this time is mostly after 7 o'clock in the evening and at this time The traffic is also very smooth, and there are no problems such as traffic jams, which can save time spent on the road.

Going to the supermarket for shopping at night is obviously helpful to improve work efficiency and save shopping time.

·Turn 24 hours into 48 hours
Time is your capital.Destiny is fair, everyone has more or less time; but the "Goddess of Success" is picky, she only lets those who can turn 24 hours into 48 hours succeed.

1. Effectiveness over efficiency
The days of the old-fashioned "efficiency guru" are long gone.Today's management experts mostly start with effectiveness, because effectiveness is a broader and more useful concept.

Efficiency focuses on the best way to do a job.Effectiveness focuses on optimal use of time.For example, you have a list of people who must be called for an upcoming meeting.If you look at it from an efficiency point of view, you wonder when is the best time to call them, should they put their name on an auto-dial card to save time, is the list up-to-date and correct ,etc.But if you look at it from an efficiency standpoint, and you ask yourself, is the time optimal to call these people, you might consider another method of contact; Delegate tasks to others; or eliminate meetings entirely so that time can be better spent.

Sound time management should start from the concept of effectiveness first and efficiency second.

2. Flexible use of the Pareto principle

In the late 19th century and early 20th century, the Italian economist and sociologist Pareto proposed the Pareto law, to the effect that in any particular group, important factors usually account for only a minority, while unimportant factors is in the majority, so as long as a few important factors can be controlled, the overall situation can be controlled.After years of evolution, this rule has become the well-known "80/20" rule in today's management circle - that is, 80% of the effects come from 20% of the factors, and the remaining 20% ​​of the effects come from 80% of the factors.

For example, the turnover of salesmen who account for less than 20% of the company's total turnover is more than 80% of the total turnover, etc. These situations show that only the more important 20% of the work can be solved by concentrating on the more important 80% of the work. [-]%.So, failing to start with the important things first can lead to doing nothing.The perfectionist who intends to get it all done often ends up getting nothing done.

As long as you can skillfully apply this 80/20 rule, too many annoying things will disappear.You try to get the most important things done first, without trying to get everything done.Even if something goes wrong with the rest, it won't affect the overall situation. 3. Good at using fragmented time Successful people will make use of any free time.

Cultivate the habit of using fragmentary time, that is, in your pocket or handbag, always remember to carry some things, such as books, pens and small notepads, so that you can wait in line, wait for the plane, and take the bus When you commute to get off work, you won't waste time doing nothing. "Collect armpits to form a fur" and "gather sand to form a tower" are equally applicable to time.

The use of piecemeal time also includes using some "non-regular" time to do something.For example, when going to the bathroom, Ouyang Xiu in the Song Dynasty often used the "toilet" time.It is said that there is a foreign prime minister who uses the "toilet" time to learn English.He tore a page from the English dictionary at a time and went to the bathroom.After going to the bathroom, I also read and memorized this page, so I sent this page into the sewer.That's how he learned a large English dictionary.

4. Cut the bullshit
The reason why celebrities can become celebrities, and the reason why great people can become great people, has one thing in common, that is: they can arrange their time well, and they all understand the truth of everything from now on.

In the use of time, successful people take every minute and every second very seriously, especially the current use of time, instead of spending time on many big words, empty words or plans that are not expected to be achieved.

A young man asked Einstein: "Sir, do you think successful people are successful, and do you have any secrets?" Einstein told him very seriously: "Success is equal to talking less nonsense and doing more practical things. "

Einstein's words sound simple, but if you think about it, you can understand the truth of it.Einstein actually wanted to tell this young man not to waste time in idle gossip, but to seize every minute and every second of the present, do something really useful, persevere, and success will not be far away .

5. Squeeze out IV time
Time is fair and selfless to everyone. As long as you are willing, you can "dig out" the potential of time, expand the capacity of time, and use the time you squeeze out to realize more dreams.

As long as you squeeze out a negligible 1 minute a day, you can squeeze out about 1 hours a year.If you can squeeze out 6 minutes a day, that's a pretty impressive number. If you work 10 days a week, 1 hours a day, and squeeze out 5 minutes in a day, you can add more than 8 days of work in a year.Furthermore, no matter how busy you are, there are at least 1 hours of piecemeal time at your disposal every day.If you work from the age of 10 to retirement at the age of 1, you can squeeze out 5 hours a day and engage in a meaningful job in a planned way, then you can add up to 2 hours, or 20 working days, for a full 60 years !No wonder the inventor Thomas Edison claimed to be 2 years old when he was 29200 years old.It can be seen that the elasticity of time is very large. As long as you are good at squeezing time, you can greatly increase the capacity of time.

6. Flexible application of slack time
For example, the pressure of work is not high, and the nature of the work determines that the work itself does not require too much energy.So in this case, you should consider how to use the time effectively.

For example, Ms. Li works in an administrative agency. Her daily work is to answer the phone, distribute newspapers and letters, and inform others about relevant matters.Although the work is easy, time must be spent. I have to go to work at 8 o'clock in the morning every day and leave work on time at 12 o'clock in the noon.I go to work at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and don't get off work until 6 o'clock in the afternoon.

For Ms. Li, these workloads are not heavy, and it takes no effort to do them.Really compress the workload, and it can be done in one or two hours.However, the nature of the work of the administrative agency determines that she must be on duty on schedule.Plus, there could be calls at any time to announce things.In this way, Ms. Li can only stay in the office without leaving her.

In order to make good use of these free time, Ms. Li studied the course of self-study exam without affecting her work, and won the certificate of completion of the undergraduate exam within two years.

In people's daily work or life, it is impossible to be in a state of tension all the time.Depending on what people are doing, some require concentration and intense concentration to get it done.And some jobs don't require too much concentration, just a little attention.Moreover, in a day's work, the work requirements are different at each time, and sometimes you can relax your tense nerves appropriately.Then these loose times need to be arranged reasonably.

7. Take advantage of waiting time

No matter how carefully you plan your time, there will always be situations where you will have to wait because something unexpected will always arise.Maybe you have already thought about how to use the waiting time to reduce your time loss, but once you can't do what you want, your disappointment and frustration will definitely affect you.

Since the waiting time is unavoidable, the best way to reduce the waiting time is to make full use of the waiting time, so as to "turn waste into treasure" and reduce the loss of waiting.

For example, when you go to a hospital to see a doctor, it is common to wait in line, especially for specialist clinics. Even if you go out early in the morning, you still have to wait.It is recommended to take a book with you when you go out, so that you don't have to read hospital magazines, or stare blankly at the crowd.

Fighting and procrastinating: establishing a modern concept of time

"Life Treasure Book" published a very interesting survey material: If a person lives to be 72 years old, he will spend his life like this: sleep for 20 years, eat for 6 years, be sick for 3 years, work for 14 years, and study for 3 years , 8 years of physical exercise, watching theater, watching TV, and movies, 8 years of chatting, 1 year of making phone calls, 3 years of waiting for people, 5 years of traveling, and 5 years of dressing up.

This is an average, and it is through this average that many problems can be seen and many problems can be thought of.There are some basic needs that everyone must maintain.Ordinary life wants to have an extraordinary life, or a leisurely life, where to save time and where to work hard, it will be clear at a glance by looking at this survey.

Sometimes people feel like they don't have enough time.Therefore, every modern person must establish a modern concept of time.

1. Discover Your Core Time

The so-called core time, simply put, is the time period when you work most efficiently, and during this time, you can also focus your energy on your work the most.

If you don't care about your core time, you can't develop a keen sense of time, so you should try to find your core time.

(End of this chapter)