The best ways to get everything done in time

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You often hear, especially from women, “Oh, I don’t have time! Of course, life is like that… But what have you done to have “when”? Nothing. Not even tried to order my lifestyle. We all have exactly 24 hours in a day. But some people have very little time, and others have a lot of time. Time, as Samuel Marshak said, is elastic. And further, “It depends on the kind of content you fill it with. Consider how to get everything done in time at home and at work.

How to manage everything

There’s all kinds of advice on how to have more time: be able to anticipate, start the day before, schedule everything by the minute. But you start with the simplest one, answer a few questions, but be honest. There is no sense to lie to yourself: do not you lie in bed in the morning, do not you spend extra time for breakfast, do not you stop work a little earlier, do not you catch yourself watching TV, even when it does not take you completely away, do not you get upset on the eve of the day off that so little was done during the week, are not you surprised that you never have enough time? If even one of these questions hits the mark, then you are wasting your time, and therefore your life. The solution is self-organization and discipline.

True, there is another side. Remember the great Roman Caesar, who could do several things at once: read, write, speak, run the affairs of state? Next to us, we meet “pseudo-Cesars” who are constantly running out of time, nervous about it, and therefore suffering from the stress of the rush. They should remember the old Latin wisdom: “Whatever you do, do it! That is, work – work, eat when you eat lunch, lie down – sleep, and so on. In the moment, do one thing, the thing that is most important. To do this, you have to be able to prioritize them, that is, prioritize them in order of importance. And then switch to the other. Don’t constantly prod yourself: “Ah, I didn’t have time for that, I was late there, I didn’t do that! You can get a lot done if you behave in a smart way.

The best ways to get everything done in time

How to estimate time

You have to develop the habit of mentally giving your time some kind of evaluation. You’ll feel differently about it. This may not be the right example, but I am reminded of a former student of mine. I met him by chance in the street a few years after he had graduated. We got to talking. He told me that he worked in a respectable firm. There was supposed to be a business meeting with a man that day, but he didn’t show up.

My student was loudly indignant: “I lost an hour! And my time is expensive! I will charge him compensation, it will cost him…”, and a decent amount of dollars was named. I was a little taken aback, but then I decided to let the pin drop: “Tell me,” I asked, “how much will you charge me for our conversation? He smiled and said: “Not at all! It was a pleasure to meet you and talk a little.” And then he added: “Time’s wasted anyway.” Just like that…

Attitude towards work

The market relations in which we are entering require a reconsideration of the attitude toward labor to which we, and in part you young people, are accustomed.

As one of today’s popular poets said, capitalism, unlike socialism, forces work. Indeed, modern business people think about business all the time. Some of them can’t afford vacations. Not because they have no money to go to the Bahamas or anywhere else. Just in that period should bring from abroad a large shipment of goods or some other concerns. So, the wife will go with the kids. And the husband will stay to work for his business.

Even when the “new class” go out to restaurants, it’s also for a reason. Contacts are established, friendships are made, connections are maintained (it used to be like this: joint drinking closely tied men together, and it was considered inadmissible to break such relations), some issues are solved in passing, business is done.

The best ways to get everything done in time

Where does laziness come from and how do we fight it?

Laziness was, is, and will be. But it blossomed especially in the old days with us. One could only sit out the hours in the service, do nothing, and get a regular paycheck. One could never go to work at all. One of our teachers liked to be “ill” for months; others worked for her without getting paid, while the “sick madam” got her regular pay.

Compare what “sickness” looks like in the United States. If a secretary has to go, pardon me, to the bathroom, she asks someone to answer the phone for that time or puts it on the answering machine. If a person is absent from the workplace for three days, they must present a medical certificate that they have been sick. If the person is absent for two weeks, they are not replaced by anyone for that time. And if the firm did without him during those two weeks, his job is simply eliminated. So it is unnecessary, redundant. Obviously, and because of this, Americans are so attentive to their health, to maintaining good physical shape. Also, medical care there is very expensive, and the workforce must be healthy, beautiful, active.

Everyone has bouts of laziness. Does it happen? And if it is a constant companion of life? Then it’s a severe case. Then the person is probably just sick. However, more often than not, you can find out the origins of your condition and take action. Maybe it is fatigue, accumulated for a long time – then it is necessary to have a rest. Maybe it is a protest against the useless work? Then it is necessary to wait; there is a probability that it will not be necessary. But what if you don’t do it at all? What would happen? It’s like the army joke: “Hurry up and shovel the snow, or it will melt!”

If the work is monotonous, then you have to do it automatically, thinking about other things at the same time. If the work is unpleasant and hard, then you have to constantly think about the ultimate stimulus, like earning money. I often think during the busy months of sessions and correspondence classes about how wonderful it will be when all this is over and I can do this and that.
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The best ways to get everything done in time 

Sometimes I get lazy to do anything in the first half of the day (that’s how I am an owl). Then I try to do work that is not very difficult, leaving it for the more productive evening hours. Sometimes the unimaginable fatigue and unwillingness to do anything is due to elementary avitaminosis.

But more often, especially in young people, laziness is associated with a lack of purpose. No, this is not “soviet” or “senile. It is universal. Here is what the American millionaire Harvey McKay writes: “A goal is a dream that must come true within a fixed time frame. Put your dreams in writing. It is the only way you will give them the tangible form they need to make you realize them.

If you need advice – write in comments. And also watch a really useful video on the topic.

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Автор Елизавета Татарчук

Эксперт женского мышления. Училась в РГУ им. С. А. Есенина на факультете психологии. Хочу открыть свой бесплатный кабинет психологической поддержки.

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