TIME OWNERSHIP

This is very important: You should not waste your time! Remember that time is more valuable than money. If you stop spending a huge amount of time on the tasks that won’t really contribute any value to your purpose, you’d be way farther from where you started.

If you have something important you feel that needs to be done today, don’t say “I’ll have tomorrow to take care of it.”

Of course, we all get it. You’re at a job and are getting paid for your time so you find yourself saying yes to too many tasks you hated doing. You’re doing it the hard way. You could end up too stressed or worse, get sick from working too hard. We all need to take ownership of how you spend your time. Focus on the projects that will mutually benefit you and your career and toss away the mundane tasks that won’t improve or enhance your personal and professional life.

Time management is outdated! All the time management strategies in the world won’t help you a bit if you don’t know what you really want. These need not necessarily be aspirational things, such as career achievements. They could be small things that you enjoy but are really important to you.

Whatever they are, get clear on them, so that you know what to focus on, and actually have something to do when you generate free time!

Owning your time is not just about having more free time; it’s about knowing what you want and using the time you’re given productively to get there.

What is important today may be urgent tomorrow. It’s your job to know what is urgent and needs immediate attention and what is important that can be put off until tomorrow. Set clear rules and boundaries so you don’t end up taking on too much from others.

When your tasks are separated into important and urgent, you are more likely to give attention to them and get them done as soon as possible. Don’t be afraid to have someone take a message, or to answer that e-mail tomorrow, so you can concentrate on your tasks. 

Emails tend to sneak into all the empty slots during our days. We read messages between our meetings, in the train, in the evening at home.

However, reading emails is not something extra to fill in the evenings and empty slots. It is actual work. If we don’t see it as work, our inbox will grow and the pile of messages takes control. We don’t focus and an important topic may slip our attention.

A quick method for e-mails:

Check out emails just 2-- 3 times a day, during a slot designated specifically for this purpose. Keep the e-mail closed for the remainder of the day.

See if you can manage it in 2 minutes when you get an email. If you can, do it right away.

If not, either:

a) Schedule it (Now you ought to have time in your calendar!).

b) Delegate. If the problem is not your duty.

c) Archive it if you need to keep the details.

d) Ruthlessly erase it if it's unneeded.

Pomodoro Game Plan

You might have heard it referred to as the Pomodoro Technique. 

1. Set a 25-minute timer, put your phone away, and get as much work done as you can in that amount of time. 
2. When the timer goes off, set down your pencil (or get your hands off the keyboard) and set a five-minute timer.
3. Take those 5 minutes to take a mental break, get a snack, go to the bathroom-- whatever you need to recharge and unwind.
4. When the five-minute break is up, put the interruptions away once again, set another 25-minute timer and return to work. 

You'll be amazed at how much you can finish something in 25 minutes! The designated time is short but still enables you to get in a groove and get work done. 

What works about this trick is that 25 minutes is a workable quantity of time. Even if you think you have hours of work ahead of you (which frequently feels too daunting to start), it makes starting a lot simpler when you understand you get a break in 25 minutes. This "25 on/five off" system elements in work time and break time, so that you do not invest 3 hours at the library "studying" when half of that time was in fact spent on Facebook.

Now that you understand how to leave procrastination station and on your method to efficiency, close this browser, write down your objective, take some breaths, and set that timer. All set, set, work!

While it is more advisable to own time rather than manage it, some people are just a sucker for performing little tasks that aren’t going to benefit them.

Check out these 5 suggestions to get you on top of your work and owning your day!

1.Set Goals

While it's fantastic to have a day-to-day to-do list, it's also important to establish weekly, annual and monthly goals that provide you a bigger vision to work towards. Similar to your daily order of business, longer term objectives need to be specific, quantifiable, obtainable, timely and practical (SMART). 

WISE objectives have a much greater possibility of being achieved, so rather of setting a basic objective like "conserve $1000 in 6 months," set a CLEVER goal like "cut back on 3 coffees per week, for 26 weeks and deposit the cost savings into an account weekly." 

Keep in mind to keep them someplace visible like on your workplace wall, desk or computer system screen background when you have actually developed your objectives. This will keep your objectives at the leading edge of your mind, assist you stay determined and allow you to handle your time and concerns efficiently.

 2. Set A Morning Ritual

Investing an hour each early morning engaging in any activity that feeds your mind and soul, such as meditating or working out, will make you extremely motivated and ready to tackle the day with focus and drive. With the right mindset, you will have the best possibility of being productive throughout the day and completing all your work.

3. Make A To-Do List

A basic to-do list will help you remember all the day-to-day jobs you require to complete, in addition, to save you from feeling overwhelmed so you can start the day with direction and purpose. Every morning, create an easy and reasonable order of business that includes every product you wish to accomplish that day. 

Always remember to keep your list specific. An extremely particular order of business makes your jobs more manageable and reduces the worry element of beginning them. Rather of a setting a task like "deal with project x," try something like "write very first 10 slides of PowerPoint presentation for task x". As you finish each job, mark it as total. All tasks that do not get completed ought to be included to the next day's order of business.

4. Decrease Diversions

If you desire to take control of your day and lower the amount of time you invest in procrastinating, you require to lock-out as numerous interruptions as possible. In today's extremely connected world, isolating yourself can be harder than you may think. Notifications from email, Whatsapp, phone calls, Facebook and lots of other sources keep us continuously linked, but likewise constantly sidetracked. To avoid getting sidetracked, allocate a set time to take care of your emails, social media accounts, messages and call. When you need to focus, log out or turn off all your electronic diversions and make sure to inform everyone else in your office that you are not to be disrupted. By setting limits with those around you and disconnecting from technology, you're most likely to be able to get work completed quicker and prevent hours of procrastination.

5. Focus is Greater Than Multi-Tasking

You may think that multitasking is a terrific ability to master. It isn't! The unexpected fact is that multitasking is extremely overrated. It makes you less efficient, not more effective. That's right, regardless of what you may have heard, new research study exposes that multitasking makes you spend more time on each task compared to if you needed to concentrate on finishing each job individually. What's more, multitasking causes more errors to get made since you never fully get 'in the zone' for any activity. Take on each job separately, and you will start to discover the outcomes!

What's more, multitasking causes more errors to get made due to the fact that you never completely get 'in the zone' for any activity.

Time management is one of the most universal challenges faced by people across the world; especially entrepreneurs. And it isn’t helped by the fact that our lives are becoming increasingly reaction-driven.

In the end, it’s only the most productive people–those who take full control over their time and priorities–who reach their full potential. And here’s the good news: You can do the same. In fact, to meet and exceed your goals, you must do the same.