Throughout our lives and day by day we do many tasks, and when we finish them, sometimes we feel that we have not done enough, or even that we have done nothing, and we are frustrated.
What’s the reason we feel that way?We just don’t manage our time properly.
- To manage our time well.
- We can follow 5 simple tips that will help us know what we do each day and how to improve in each daily activity:.
Stephen Covey in his book “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” indicates that we must start with a goal in mind. I mean, we have to set a goal.
But this goal should have a number of features
Stephen Covey talks about “first” referring to the transcendence of differentiation from the important and the urgency, so that he can prioritize tasks.
Covey creates four quadrants in which any activity can be classified:
The urgent is what needs immediate attention
What matters is what contributes to your medium- and long-term goals, to your goal in life.
“Time is something created. Tell me? I don’t have time? It’s like saying” I don’t want to. “
-Lao Tzu-
From a professional point of view, there are tasks that can be defined as high profitability (those that give us high income) and others of low cost (those that give us low incomes).
Each task must be carried out at the right time of day or week to be effective. In addition, we must take into account the time not only of the task itself, but also of everything it includes (travel, calls, etc. ).
When planning tasks, we need to plan times for unforeseen events that may occur, so we can deal with them.
Don’t you start a day, a week, a month without planning them?
? Jim Rohn?
Every minute we spend on a task, especially if it is very cost-effective, it must be protected so that there are no interruptions.
It is very common for us to be interrupted by phone calls, emails, messages, etc. , but we must focus on protecting certain times of the day to dedicate them to a specific task.
Tim Ferriss, in your book?Defines an interrupt as something that prevents you from completing a task and marks the difference between three types of interrupts:
To protect our time it is essential to learn to say NO to all tasks that have nothing to do with our project or that contribute to something.
In any case, it is possible to say “not now?” And leave this task at another, more appropriate time.
Sometimes the activities we do in both our work and our private lives have to be done on our own, but at other times they can be delegated to work as a team, so it is essential to learn to delegate.
Once our goal is set and the tasks we must perform to achieve this, we must measure whether or not we achieve it within the timeframe we set ourselves.
If we don’t achieve the result, we can assess whether it was realistic or not and make the necessary adjustments to make it possible.
Properly managing your time is another step toward your business success and privacy, so knowing what we do, when we do it, and how we do it is critical to achieving our dreams.
“People think of me as a time management expert. I look more like a priority management expert, evaluating things well. Do I know which investment has the highest return on my future?”
? Timothy Ferriss?