Time management can be tough. What is urgent in your life and what is important to your life are often very different things. There are three time management tips that actually work in real life and will help you improve your health and productivity.
Eliminate half-work at all costs
- In our age of constant distraction, it’s easy to split our attention between what we should be doing and what society bombards us with
- Half-work is the division of your time and energy
- The result is that you are never fully engaged in the task at hand, you rarely commit to a task for extended periods of time, and it takes you twice as long to accomplish half as much
Do the most important thing first
- If there is something important that you need to do, then do it first
- By following this simple strategy, you will usually end up having a productive day, even if everything doesn’t go according to plan
Reduce the scope, but stick to the schedule
- Put the schedule first and not the scope, which is the opposite of how we usually approach our goals
- The cumulative impact of always staying on schedule is huge. No matter what the circumstance and no matter how small the workout, you know you’re going to finish today’s task
