Time and stress
Psychologists argue that in fact the cause of stress is not so much found in the number of things a person has to do, but rather in the fact of not being able to complete all the tasks we had set ourselves. Time is your most democratic existence. Time is the only resource that makes us all equal.
There are people who are born richer than others, people who live in better neighborhoods, people who are born by the grace of nature's most beautiful and strong, but we all live days 24 hours! When we talk about time management does not have an alibi. We are all equal. Our ability to control it makes a difference if we are successful or not in our lives.
Quick for better time management
So here's 8 tips on how to learn to better manage their time to avoid being overcome by unexpected events and continue to be focused towards achieving our most important objectives. If you want to be a real effective mamager time (as the Americans say) begins with these short tips.
• Write a daily plan of what you have to do. Organize your day before you start it. Write your plan early in the morning or better yet, the night before going to sleep (to store the best). Prepare a plan offers the opportunity to have a good overview of how to develop the next day and organize it better. Your task for the day is just to join in the best possible way as previously scheduled.
• Establish a limit of time to devote to each activity you do. An example: Complete the task X before 10 am, the task Y from 03:00, and the voice from Z 5:30 pm. This will prevent the various activities of drag beyond measure and eroding precious time reserved for other activities.
• Use a calendar to plan and distribute the assets over the weeks. Many people make the mistake of organizing your time using as a unit the day. But in reality, the time we live in is divided into weeks and months. The days of the week between them are not indifferent. The tasks that can be performed on Monday does not mean that they can be carried out either on Tuesday or Wednesday.
Having a schedule is the key step for the management of daily activities. A calendar, thanks to the division of time into weeks and months gives us the opportunity to plan in the medium term and to distribute the assets equitably.
If you use Outlook or Lotus Notes, the calendar is an integral part of e-mail software. Those who use it will easily find on the dashboard mac osx application Ical, those who prefer online applications find it very useful Google Calendar (it's great - I use it). Whatever your choice is even better if you can sync it with your phone and any other device you use (Tablet, notebook etc. Etc.) - This way, you can access your work surface, anywhere, with all your technological gimmicks.
• Give yourself the goal of always the first to arrive for appointments. If when you have an appointment, a meeting or a meeting by you aim to arrive just in time, you may happen to arrive on time or late. From experience I tell you that most of the time you are late. This is for a psychological mechanism very simple. Your mind will focus on estimating the minimum time and effort must evaluate any unforeseen events (which are known for unexpected precisely because it can not be estimated a priori). But if you cultivate a firm decision to always be the first in all your appointments, you will most likely arrive always on time.
• Focus on a specific task. Men and women, unlike computers are not multi-tasking (multitasking is a term used in computer science and indicates the capacity on the part of an operating system, to develop and manage multiple programs independently of one another).
If you try to do several things at once (talking on the phone and respond to email, surf the internet and fill an Excel spreadsheet etc etc) are you sure you do not get anything. Concentrated instead on one key task at a time. When working at a computer close all applications you are not using at that moment, and also close all the open applications do nothing but you stole attention.
Focused solely on what you're doing at that precise moment. Be more efficient and you will have more time to devote, subsequently, to other activities.
• Block all distractors. What distracts you usually in your work? instant messages? The beep dimessanger or that of the facebook chat? GLi ringing phone? The sound of the e-mail? Personally I almost never use the chat. The few times that I connect is when I want to reach someone in particular and I'm not doing any task. When I'm doing an important job, are usually also lower your phone's ringer at this time I'm writing this article. In this way telephone calls are recorded (archive phone calls lost) and then I intend to contact the people who have called me. This helps me to concentrate better and be more productive.
• Set priorities. Because you can not do everything, learn to focus on the really important things and let go of everything else. Apply the 80/20 principle is a fundamental principle in setting priorities. Identifies the most important and that produce the greatest results and focus on them.
