Let’s begin this part of Daily Time Management Tips series with talking about self-motivation. How to keep oneself motivated? Well through rewards and punishment, isn’t it? You guessed it right; this post will focus on this [motivation] aspect of time management.
Let’s begin this journey on a good note, by talking about rewarding yourself when you finish some work on time. This is a nice way to keep your motivation high.
Multitasking is the essence of our time. We often indulge in multitasking even without knowing that we are doing it, but let me warn you against it because multitasking is not always a good thing. Indeed, it helps you finish lot of works in short period of time, but at cost of what?
Quality!
Yes, quality suffers if you unconsciously or consciously club two activities that require separate attention. Clubbing two less involving activities for multitasking is fine, but you should avoid clubbing two activities when any one of the two requires your complete attention.
Taking a block approach means doing the things that are similar in nature in close succession. This way you will save lots of time that will else get wasted in hopping from one type of task to another kind of task, and then coming back to the kind of task you did first. If you have to make sales call, make all phone calls and dispatch all mails in one block of time. Do not indulge in using separate block of time for accomplishing these activities.
This is not the right thing to do. Your spouse will be really angry, and she or he has all the right to be angry, and he/she is right too. It is you who is at fault if you are mixing work with life. Keep both in separate compartment, and never bring office work to home.
How will it help you in managing time?
Well, the pressure of not taking work home will keep you on your feet. I told you about the pressure and punishment in the beginning of the article. This is it.
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