| From time to time there are moments when we require more than twenty four hours to accomplish all our duties. In most situations we have time to meet only urgent engagements, and quite often we hear complaints that there is no time to meet friends, or to visit relatives, or even to devote a couple of hours to ourselves.
Does that sound familiar to you? Conceive that you can slow down the time. It is possible if you know 3 not complicated recommendations listed below.
1. Don't postpone your things to do.
Procrastination is not only postponing all the things to do, sometimes it's just failure to give privilege when people convince themselves that the triffles they do are very important, but putt off those tasks that are really require to be done. It occurs in case these tasks aren't very pleasant, or when a person does not know what to begin with.
Take into consideration that procrastination doesn't solve your problems, it may only make them worse. That is why it is logical to make a schedule of your urgent duties in order of decreasing importance, and begin with the most essential duties. Don't put off essential duties till late evening, it's just a psychological trick.
2. Complicated things to do are to be accomplished first.
If you have several tasks with same priority, begin with the most difficult task. It's human nature to procrastinate the things that seem difficult or not pleasant. It is not reasonable both because you waste your time and because the longer you wait the more impracticable the duty would seem. That is why try to be honest to yourself, and begin with complicated duties.
3. If it's possible multitask.
Pay attention to the words: if it's possible. For instance, the situation on the road needs your concentration, that is why don't try to solve your business problems on the telephone when driving. It is a good idea to combine mental duties with mechanical ones. When you need to water the flowers or to do the dishes, you may begin with these duties whilst talking on the telephone. But make sure that your efforts to multitask do not slow down your activity.
Try these recommendations on practice, and you'll save lots of time. But still, remember that no strategy will work if you waste time on nonproductive activity. Sometimes we tell ourselves that we'll look aside just for a minute but then we find it even more difficult to concentrate attention on our obligations. There is a famous proverb: business before pleasure. |