Where has my time gone - how to practice good time use habits
Do you encounter these situations often?
Hey, what else to do? Seems like there's nothing left to do?
Busy clicking the mouse, busy looking through emails, busy studying, busy chatting...
Terrible, that's what happened! There is really no time!
Crazy overtime, desperately fighting fires, rushing others...
Ah, just got off work ...I feel like I have nothing to do ...
The next day, he continued to say: Ah, I got off work again...
What exactly is going on?
Forgot what to do, time wasted
I didn't do what should have been done long ago, time was spent putting out the fire
Work is inefficient, time is spent making soy sauce
So what should we do?
Ways to deal with busyness :
one. keep a journal
a) Time management "easier said than done"
i. When habits become intuitions, they are hard to break!
b) To train the habit of "self-awareness"
i. There is always a daemon in the brain monitoring itself
ii. Once you start busy, you can "catch the current" and automatically wake up
iii. Journaling is a good training tool
c) Habits should be developed gradually and persistently
i. Every Monday, take 50 minutes to reflect on what you did during the week
ii. Take a note every day, spend 5 minutes thinking about what you did today
iii. One note every hour, spend 5 seconds recalling what you just did
iv. Monitoring becomes intuition, monitoring what you are doing at all times
two. task list
To train the "do list" habit
three. Tool reminder
Convenient, Outlook Calendar/Tasks, PDA , Excel , Mail
Ways to manage fires :
one. advance reminder
a) remind others in advance
i. 15 minutes after the meeting time and still calling someone?
1. Confirm with others when the meeting notice is issued
2. Start calling people 5 minutes before the meeting
ii. Waiting for the results completed by others to find out that there is still a long way to go?
1. Ask him about his progress ahead of time - remember, everything that can go wrong will go wrong
2. Make sure that if he completely forgets or does something wrong the first time he asks, there is still time to fix it
b) remind yourself in advance
i. For tasks that have a deadline and take a long time to complete, set a reminder for yourself in advance, otherwise you may be caught off guard once you forget
ii. Remember to remind yourself to remind others in advance!
2. Reasonable assessment
Be very confident in your own productivity when evaluating your plan
My skill level is so high, I'm ashamed to say that it can be done tomorrow
High technical level == high work efficiency? NOT REALLY!
How to manage soy sauce
1. Optimization method
Where did the time slip from?
i. Doing too many things at the same time, doing this and thinking about that, switching back and forth
1. Look at the task list early in the morning and plan what to do when
2. Learn to ask "isn't it urgent? Is 3pm okay?" and add a task to the list
ii. Find commonly used documents, emails, configurations, codes, and rummage through boxes every time
1. Regularly organize your desktop, folders, and mailboxes
2. Organize commonly used information in lists, brain maps, etc.
iii. Inaccurate communication, repeated explanations, or back and forth with N people
1. Communicate clearly and comprehensively
2. Communicate through the right channels
2. Avoid large rework
do things like
- All in one go (all night rushing to work, can't stop)
- Pursuit of perfection (less than perfection, unwilling to show others)
it turned out to be
- Waste of rework
- Lonely self-admiring
All in one effort + pursuit of perfection == all at once
- Staircases have landings because one has to climb one step at a time
- Things have to be done in steps because ideas have to be adjusted step by step
- Learn to set up steps for yourself and others, asymptotic communication, iterative development