Master your prime time

But before you learn more effective time management methods, one thing must be clarified: the essence of time management is to make effective use of time.

The key to time management is how to turn the time of “waste” and “idle” into “investment” time, and promote meaningful “consumption”. Weakness is not the reason for persistence. Whether you can stick to it is:

Can develop methods that are good for persistence.

Whether there is any real experience in the transfer brought by the investment.

Five principles for investing in prime time

1. Do not hesitate to invest in any aspect to create time

From an investment point of view, the last thing we should be embarrassed about is investing in time. As long as we can increase the time, the resources we invest in will not be rewarded. Specifically, in terms of tools, physical strength, change, knowledge, and techniques, don't hesitate to invest.

Tools that help improve efficiency include notebooks, stationery, bicycles, computers, etc. The main investment in physical strength is to maintain health and persist in sports. The investment in "change" is "taking a little risk and changing the status quo of life."

The current habits of life are relatively stable for me and are a better state. Because of this, it is sustainable. The change here is to change this relatively stable rhythm slightly. For example, getting up early and getting up early is a good habit. Everyone knows, but why do many people sleep very late? This is because they feel that it is quite comfortable to sleep late.

If you want to change this habit, where should you start? People who are used to sleeping late may not try to get up early if they are not likely to fall asleep early in the morning. It’s early in the morning, and it’s so early in the night that it’s easy to go to bed early.

Therefore, if you want to change your lifestyle, you should first find the incentive part of the action model and stimulate the new behavior by changing the incentive. This is the investment in change.

In addition, in the process of continuously changing lifestyle habits, we must overcome the dependence on certain things. Specifically, there are televisions, cigarettes, alcohol, internet, games, mobile phones, etc., which are collectively referred to as "time thieves." If you count on a party to drink, most people are averaging 3-4 hours a day by these thieves.

2. Pay attention to the results created by unit time

If the cost of hiring people to do housework exceeds our income, then such investment is beyond our burden. So in order to invest, we must work hard to improve our hourly wages. If you can keep an eye on this, our concept of time will be greatly changed.

Take your own actual situation as an example and calculate the hourly salary you have earned. The actual annual income earned, divided by the number of hours worked per year, is the result of your hourly wage. Next, calculate the price per hour for each type of service. As long as the actual hourly wage is greater than the hourly service price, we can easily enjoy the service.

3, improper and unprincipled "good people"

A good person will increase the cost when he is overdone. Many people who strictly manage their time will be purely "indiscriminate." People who do not refuse to be assigned work are often used. Not only that, but more often, our private time will be occupied by others. Of course, it is not that you should be a "wicked person". However, when we find that the time we spend does not have a clear return, we must have the courage to refuse.

People often use "what can be achieved" to define success. But in fact, if we ask a successful person, "How did you succeed," most people will emphasize that "it depends on how much we can change our previous practices," "how much can you say?" 'No'". The same is true for time management. The investment efficiency of time is directly proportional to the number of “No”.

4. Give priority to work that is like, good at, and profitable.

Learning to refuse, it saves a lot of time. If you spend all of your time on work that you like, excel, and make money, you can get more results and add more time. Giving priority to doing the work you like will be very easy, and it is easy to create results and get paid. In addition, for things that you don't want to do but you can't do it, you can hire someone or buy the appropriate service if necessary. We are in a commodity society, we must learn to focus our time on investing in ways that are easier to create. As long as the income is raised, we can purchase various services.

What is the job we are best at? You only need to develop a medium- and long-term plan, and you can choose what you want to do in order of priority. Having said that, if the area you are good at is too small, it is easy to cause excess investment. Don't be a "learning mad" and "nerd". Determine whether it is an excess investment, as long as you observe the results created by the unit time.

5, the plan should be arranged casually, loosely

The most common mistake that people who are not used to managing time is to arrange the program tightly. That is, there is no free time between the plan and the plan, and too many plans are arranged every second. Even if such an arrangement can proceed smoothly in the short term, it is doomed to fail with a long-term perspective.

First of all, it is most important to leave enough time between the plan and the plan. Loosely plan, you can only arrange up to three or four things a day, but this is enough. The time a person can concentrate on working in a day is 8 to 10 hours. We should, within this range, reverse the number of tasks that can be completed. In addition, the ability to develop more plans to the end is only incapable.

In addition, it is easy for people to be overconfident and underestimate the time required for a job, so it is necessary to reserve spare time.

Finally, it is important to remember not to blindly match the timetable of others and to take the initiative to control your time. For example, when discussing plans with others, we can actively propose: "This time, this place is better." If you meet with you obviously is good for the other side, that is, your value is improved, the other party will definitely Do not hesitate to match your timetable.