Do you feel totally unable to complete your tasks? Here are tips
from a famous planner.
If you can plan your perfect day, what would you do? Maybe you'll take a
yoga class, spend an hour longer with husband on the bed, or read a book that
had long you want to accomplish.
The key to making your dream day become a reality is to change your
mindset about time.
Dr. Samantha Sutton, vice president and director of programs and
seminars The Handel Group, a training group which helps people learn to plan
life saying, "Time is a medium that we live in, and we need to treat it in
a responsible way to use it up."
Dr. Sutton says, we tend to underestimate how much time we need to be
able to complete a task. Or we lie about the time, such as when a friend told
us that we can meet them at our empty, at five o'clock precisely, but we can
not even leave the office until five o'clock.
And we often say "we do not have time," when we are afraid to
face the task and do not have a way out to solve it. To fulfill all the things
that are important to you, you should reconsider your relationship with the
precious minutes that you've been through. The secret is to have it, he said,
Sutton.
1. Start by Telling the Truth
If you are not on time, it seems you can not be honest with
others and yourself about how much time you need and how much time you actually
need to accomplish the task. "You may know in your heart, you can not
finish a report for your boss in one hour, but you instead say that the task
will be on the table soon. We used to lie about the time and actually it makes
us less close relationship to the time. "
The first step is to give more time than you thought before to complete
the task. For example, if you think you need an hour to go home, then give
yourself an hour and twenty minutes. Give you an "extra time" to help
retrain your brain so that estimates of time would be a natural thing.
2. Obey the schedule
This seems sound simple, but it is literally planning the exact time can
allow you to control time. It does not matter if you make an online
calendar or use the old-fashioned daily schedule, but practice in accordance
boundaries. Take time from 8:00 pm until 9:00 am to reply the emails, and
stopped right at 9:00 and continue doing other things on your list.
Start with small things, like scheduling activities within an interval
of three hours, twice a week. For several hours, practice doing the exact same
thing as a schedule. "Planning for a week and run according to schedule
will be very difficult, because we had not trained at all. Just like when you
are training for a marathon, you also have to take a small step when setting up
your time so you do not put yourself in a failure, "said Dr. Sutton.
3. Introduce the Consequences
You constantly forget to pick up the kids from daycare, but somehow you
are able to arrive to the airport an hour early to catch a plane. Why? Because there
is unequivocal consequences if too late: you'll miss the plane.
In situations where there are no harsh penalties for the delay, give
yourself a reward for being on time, such as paying a fine every minute
you delay, and donate the funds to charity every month. "It's amazing how
you are going to start on time because you will actually feel the impact of
your actions," said Dr. Sutton.
4. Take a Time to Complete the Pending Task
Take the example when you are shopping over the credit card, so you put off
paying bills because you do not want to think about. However, you will end up
worrying about it when you're shopping or cooking dinner. "The longer you
put off doing something, the more energy it takes to complete the task,"
said Dr. Sutton. "That's because our brain only have a limited capacity on
the things we focus on, so all day you will worry about the bills in your head,
when you can spend that energy for something fun like playing with your
child."
To provide space for the brain so that you can focus better on your
tasks, schedule two hours a week to work on the pending task. When you suddenly
remember having an appointment with a veterinarian or selling clothes on eBay,
send a text message reminder to yourself to look at the time. "It reduces stress
levels due to delays think you do because you already know that you can do that
another time. It can help you be more productive and enjoy the moment,
"said Dr. Sutton.
5. Publish It
If you tell your neighbor, you will arrive at 9:00 and not "would
come early" to help sell their used goods, likely you will be on time.
"The people around you can be the greatest advocates for you in helping
you master the time even if they do not do anything," said Dr. Sutton.
"Telling others about when or how long you are going to do
something to make you keep going over the time limit because you are a burden
to be responsible for the appointment." Sometimes a little pressure from
the adult friends is actually a good thing.
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