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You can’t imagine it on purpose: I didn’t show up on time for a single interview with time management experts. Five, ten, fifteen minutes - but she was late. Disorganization has nothing to do with it: I have three (three, Karl!) diaries, which are filled out according to all the golden rules. I'm a master (I think) at making lists and prioritizing things. I’m silent about fashionable multitasking: for me, it’s common to write a text with one hand, answer email with the other, with a third... If there was a third, I’d come up with something else. “This is the first mistake,” says time management consultant, candidate of psychological sciences Maria Dolinova. “Attention has different qualities, and if you pride yourself on multitasking, be prepared for problems on all fronts.”
It sounds cool, but, for example, Elon Musk constantly repeats that he does a hundred things at the same time. It seems quite logical: if you want to live (and launch a Tesla into space), be able to spin. Only coaches unanimously assure: this is not multitasking, but professional mastery of flexible planning methods. In time management, there is such a thing as kairos - that is, the most convenient time to do something (the term refers to
named after the ancient Greek god of a happy moment). To learn how to work with kairos, all plans need to be divided into groups. Arm yourself with colored sticky notes, distribute them throughout your diary and see for yourself - many meetings can be easily combined, thereby saving a lot of time. Meeting a friend at Cutfish? Arrive half an hour earlier and invite your business partner there.
Go ahead. Ask the all-knowing Google for the main rules of time management: we bet you will get seasick very quickly from the phrase “prioritize.” “The most advanced techniques are of little help if you have a hard time understanding what really matters to you,” says Galina Vdovichenko, head of Global Vision Coaching. “So first of all, do some thorough work on yourself.” Maria Dolinova, who also worked with professors at the Higher School of Economics, cites the example of a 55-year-old man who, understandably, one day began to care what he spent his time on. He calculated that if he lived another twenty years, he would have a thousand resurrections - and he bought exactly the same number of rubber balls, which he poured into a large glass vase. Every week he gave one of them to his grandson and thus very clearly felt the passage of time - the question of priorities (that is, what is important for you, and not for your neighbor or boss) was resolved by itself. It sounds like a story from a stupid public page, but, firstly, it is real, and secondly, it serves as a clear example of how to separate what is really necessary from what is unnecessary. Time management specialist Dmitry Litvak came up with his own variation of this exercise for those who have no time for balls, and gave it the self-explanatory name “pin calendar.”
Take an A5 sheet of paper, divide it into 31 squares, and cross out half every morning and evening. Did you manage? Great: now you see how time flies. Thanks to this visualization, priorities will set themselves. And, probably, in a completely unexpected manner for you.
Finally, mistake number three is planning down to the second. Do you have yoga at 8:37, a meeting at 15:43, and dinner at 18:02? “You understand that at one point everything will go down the drain? — Evgeniya Brykova, an expert on developing leadership potential, asks a rhetorical question. “What many people don’t seem to fully appreciate is that other people have schedules too—and they don’t always match yours.” The authors of the book “Time Management: Increase Your Personal Productivity And Effectiveness” even advise planning only one half of the day, and leaving the second for unforeseen matters (fortunately, our rhythm of life guarantees that they will appear).
Life hacks you didn't know about
One of the favorite rules of all time management coaches is Parkinson’s law (and no, we are not talking about the discoverer of the disease of the same name). In 1955, the British historian Cyril Northcote Parkinson published a humorous article in The Economist in which he formulated a very serious thesis: work fills exactly the time allotted for it. “If an old woman can write a letter to her niece all day, then she will write it all day,” he assured and urged to clearly indicate the time for completing a particular task. Need to write a report? Allow strictly two hours for it. It’s just like in school: you’re given exactly forty-five minutes for a test—you simply won’t be able to sit longer. By the way, Parkinson is credited with another famous phrase that efficiency telephone conversation is inversely proportional to the time spent on it: take note the next time you decide to demonstrate the art of small talk.
We learned another rule from American motivational speaker Brian Tracy. Invest your morning time in yourself before starting other things - this strategy later received the romantic name “the law of the golden hour.” Yes, you will have to get up early for this. But this is exactly what he does, for example: CEO Apple Tim Cook - and we bet he has a little less free time than you and I. Attention: the sixty minutes that you have won with difficulty from sleep should be devoted not to current affairs, not to a trip to the beauty salon, not to communicate with relatives who are early risers, namely strategic planning. Dream, make notes in your diary, write down ideas. Business coach Yuri Moroz advises using this hour for optimization: sit down and think about where you can cut corners (think about kairos). Then you can make a list of achievements. “Recognizing our victories is nonsense for our mentality. Unlearn being modest - otherwise you won’t be able to move on,” says Galina Vdovichenko.
And one more life hack that really works: start a diary called “43 sheets.” It was invented by Merlin Mann, a publicist and time management expert. For its sake, however, you will have to sacrifice a beautiful Moleskine or Smythson, but the result is worth it. “You will need 12 green sheets (on which you will write down your goals for the month) and 31 white sheets (for tasks for each specific day), explains Maria Dolinova. “You’ll get just 43, and on them you will simultaneously see both long-term and short-term plans - the risk of forgetting something or not having time to do it will be minimized.”
And a few more useful tricks
- LEARNING TO COUNT. The name of the “40−30-20−10” technique speaks for itself: you spend 40% of your time on the main task, 30 on the second most important task, 20 on the third. Dedicate the last 10 to everything else: this way you will be able to avoid the temptation to do everything at once.
- WE ARE STUCK IN THE MATRIX. No matter how many things you have to do, the 34th President of the United States clearly had more. He came up with the Eisenhower matrix, which allows you to sort tasks by importance and urgency. Urgently look for an example on the Internet!
- WE DEVELOP INTELLIGENCE. Mind maps are used by top management largest companies: you draw many arrows from one global goal - and thereby paint a plan of action from a to z. Don't like to draw? Use the MindMeister online service: it will do everything for you.
- WE EAT FROGS. We are not talking about a gastrotrip to Paris now. “Frogs” are tasks that are simple in terms of execution, but put pressure on the nerves: they prevent you from concentrating on the main thing. Make it a rule to eliminate at least a couple of similar cases once a day. Feel better!
- WE ARE RUNNING A BULLET JOURNAL. The technique is similar to “43 sheets”, but what if you like it more? Its author, designer Ryder Carroll, suggests dividing the diary into three parts. In the first you will write down goals for the year, in the second - for the month, in the third - for every day.
- WE MAKE CHECKLISTS. Nothing complicated or supernatural: if you’re too lazy to bother, just make a list of important things to do for a given period of time. We recommend the website 365done.ru - here you can design your own (and very beautiful) checklist.
1. MAKE TO-DO LISTS
Start with the easiest tasks or those that don't take much time, crossing them off as you complete them. The sight of a shrinking list is inspiring.
A fixed list allows you to avoid being distracted by thoughts about whether you forgot something.
2. ASSIGN PRIORITIES - A, B, C
How to organize your life? Anything that can't be put off - A. Do it. Everything that back and forth endures B. Do as much as possible. Everything that is almost unimportant goes to list B and forget about it.
Already at the stage of making a list, you will feel that you can again control the course of life.
3. KEEP A RECORDS OF YOUR IDEAS AND NOTES
Everything that is not written down is forgotten. Don’t waste your energy on this, trust external media (paper, computer, phone), and then the next morning you won’t have to painfully bang your head against the wall in an attempt to remember yesterday’s brilliant insight.
4. USE EVERNOTE STORAGE SYSTEM
In it you can store and recognize not only machine texts, but also photographs of your handwritten notes, videos and drawings. It allows you to find what you need using tags.
5. BUY A SMARTPHONE IF YOU DON’T HAVE IT YET
You will be able to conduct all your business, including checking email and communicating with colleagues, from anywhere, wherever you are.
6. TURN OFF YOUR SMARTPHONE WHEN YOU WORK
How to become an organized person in life? Every morning, make a list of three key things you would like to achieve that day. Check with it mid-day to make sure you're on the right track. If not, turn off your phone and Wi-Fi and focus on what you need to do.
Organized life - what could be better? Business man, who is on time for all his meetings, punctual, has a great sense of time, and has a good grasp of his life schedule, cannot help but please. His whole life is organized, provided with self-discipline and self-restraint. He himself is its creator. Can this be learned? Is it possible to train yourself to live like this? It’s possible, but not for everyone; such a life can only be lived on, getting a thrill from self-organization. By the way, this is available to many people. We just don't realize it.
- How to organize your life correctly?
- How to make sure you get everything done?
- Why can't you organize your life?
The question of “organizing life” is asked by people who just can’t do it. They have already tried many times: they set up schedules for themselves, vowed to start living an organized life on Monday, but... things are still there.
They look with envy at the lucky ones who know how to manage their lives. And they have the same thing day after day. They are always running somewhere, grabbing onto 3 things at once, as a result they don’t have time to do everything, they are late, things just keep piling up.
As a reaction to all this, stress arises. Against the background of stress, the so-called “rattling” - your hands sweat, your vision becomes dark, and your knees become weak. There is a feeling of being trapped, that you are spinning like a squirrel in a wheel, that everything is the same without any closure. We need to do something, we need to somehow organize our life. But how?
Not everyone has the ability to self-organize
In fact, of course, not all people are by definition capable of self-organization and self-discipline. There are people for whom someone must constantly remind them of deadlines, monitor them, and determine the pace of work. Moreover, as a rule, in people who are not capable of self-organization, there is no desire for her. They do not feel it as their own lack. For example, there is a psychotype of people who focus their work not on time, but on quality. For them, it is important to create perfection and it does not matter how long it takes. They choose a field of activity where there is the least time constraint. Such people do not worry about their lack of organization; they are worried about something else - whether they were able to do their job perfectly, without a single mistake or not.
But those people who suffers from their unorganized life Those who understand that they are somehow not living the way they should, as a rule, have all the abilities for self-organization, self-discipline and self-restraint. And not just abilities, but also opportunity to have fun from the management of every minute of his time. It’s just that due to some life circumstances they couldn’t feel it. Often the cause of current is lack of discipline in childhood. Against the background of our mentality, where it is always customary to postpone everything until later, for the so-called. “maybe”, disorganization literally eats into life.
Organized life: who is capable and who fails?
Only people with a skin vector have the desire, and therefore the ability, to properly organize life (hereinafter, terms from Systemic Vector Psychology by Yuri Burlan (you can read more about vectors)). It is these people who are the most organized in the world, and vice versa, who can be big slobs.
Leather workers from early childhood begin to show interest in saving, in benefits. They don’t really like to do boring, repetitive things, but they are good at things that require dexterity, speed, and resourcefulness. He is of nature they are flexible in mind and body. If a skin worker is born into a family where there is a developed skin parent, then such a child is gradually taught to properly manage time and resources. Simply put, they instill the ability to organize their lives. The child quickly learns not only to live according to a schedule, to get up at the same time, to maintain discipline, and to play sports. He starts enjoy this process and will not give up these skills in later life.
If a skin person did not receive the necessary skills in childhood, did not consolidate self-organization with the pleasure of this process, an internal contradiction arises. He has an aspiration for an organized life, but how to achieve this, how to approach the matter is unknown. You constantly want more, so such a person takes on many things at the same time, which means he doesn’t have time to do anything. On the other hand, I want to save time. It seems to him that efforts can be cut somewhere, but in the end, the whole business falls on this saving. It is because of this that there is a constant feeling that time is slipping out of our hands.
Proper organization life brings joy to a person with a skin vector. He is happy, he is satisfied, everything works out for him. A disorganized life, on the contrary, gives a feeling of unhappiness, a state of being “trapped.”
How to organize your life?
Today there are many recommendations for organizing and self-organizing life. Books about time management at work and in personal life are breaking all sales records. This is a popular topic because so many people with the skin vector suffer from the problem of indiscipline.
But the problem is that it is very difficult for an adult to just take and do something that he has never done before. Yes, if he had been taught to self-organize at the age of 6-10, this state of pleasure would have been absorbed into the subconscious and become second nature to a person. But an adult has already acquired a whole bunch of habits, psychological anchors. He tried to change everything many times and failed. In addition, he remains captive of his desires with lost guidelines. Therefore, all these books on self-organization practically do not help in solving his problems. There is a very small chance that he will be able to change his life by applying the recommendations from such books. But, alas, as a rule, this requires such tension and such effort that most people give up when they need to make the first effort.
You can store bags, foil, and cling film in the stands if there is not enough space in the drawers.
Cutting boards and trays
Who said file organizers are only for the office? Use one to organize and store cutting boards, tray or baking tray.
Hide the wires
Place spare extension cords, adapters, USB cables, etc. in cardboard reels that remain from toilet paper. They will serve as a kind of separators, so the wires will not get tangled.
Under the sink
Maximize space by hanging bottles with dispenser on the bar under the sink. They can be hooked onto the dispenser lever and stored suspended, saving precious space.
Paper flow
Don't hoard mail. Get every piece of paper going in the right direction before it ends up in your desk drawer. Create three zones: for review, for filling and core- for bills, invitations and anything else that might come in handy in the near future.
Instructions
Can you remember right now where the instructions for your washing machine or microwave are? When you buy a new item, put the instructions in a bag and tape them to the back or side of the device.
Horizontal placement
To make stacks of boxes look the same, fold clothes horizontally rather than vertically. This way, more will fit, and you will be able to see every little thing - even those that you haven’t worn for a long time.
A few more original and useful ideas
Bed sheets
Collect your laundry in sets and store each one in one pillowcase. This way, nothing will get mixed up or disappear from view, and you won’t have to turn over piles of laundry.
Toys in a basket
Hang the toys in a visible place by attaching a ready-made wire flower container to the height of the child. Seeing a clean floor in a children's room is not bad at all.
Mismatched socks
They will no longer disappear after washing in some incredible way. Before putting them in the washing machine drum, collect the vapors in a mesh laundry bag.
Ladies' handkerchiefs
Thread them through a plastic ring (you can take it from a shower curtain) and attach it to a hanger - this way the scarves will not wrinkle.
Magnetic strip
Instead of storing knives in drawers or on a special stand, attach a magnetic strip to the wall. It allows you to save space on the countertop, and the knives remain clean, their blades are not damaged, and besides, children’s hands will not reach them.
Shoe hooks
Make your own shoe rack using a thin metal hanger from dry cleaners. “Bite” the middle of the hanger and bend the ends with pliers.
Pyramid of bracelets
Too much decoration? Then try using a wooden paper towel holder. It's much easier to find something that suits your outfit best.
More finds for your home
The most important thing is in a visible place
Keep essentials in a clear modular section hung on the door: dog collar, keys, umbrellas and other items you need to grab before leaving the house. Or use this module for household little things: rubber bands, clothespins, batteries, etc.
Cart in the trunk
Keep a plastic basket or box in the trunk of your car to prevent food spills.
Package storage
Do rolls of garbage bags keep piling up under your kitchen sink? Have a separate place for them. They can be inserted, for example, into a box of paper napkins (Kleenex), making it easier to remove.Children's crafts
Children often bring home crafts and drawings from kindergarten or school. Get a separate plastic box for them, and when it’s full to the brim, just get rid of everything unnecessary, leaving only your favorite and most beautiful things.
Hair bobby pins
No longer will they hang around the bottom of your purse: the ideal container for storing bobby pins is an empty tic tac candy box.
In the back seat
Tired of clutter in your car? Turn a basket with a handle into a carrying bag for children's toys and bottles (or for personal items: napkins, glasses).
Mobile applications
The apps on your smartphone are designed to make life easier, not create more stress. The most necessary programs can be grouped into categories: games or news, and put the ones you use most often on the main screen. The iPhone has special built-in folders where you can put applications, and Android users can download free program App Folder. If you haven't used a particular application for three months, simply delete it.
Gentle wash
Write with a washable marker on the body of the machine which items should not be put in the dryer.
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Imagine a life in which everything is carefully organized: there is nothing superfluous, everything important is at hand, and not very important is in a certain place. Moreover, we are talking not only about physical objects, but also about time, thoughts, and goals.
For example, let's take reading. You love to read, but you do it haphazardly and chaotically. Of what you read, 5-10% is remembered, and even then this information is not always important. If you learn to take an organized approach to reading, then this percentage may not increase, but you will gain much more benefit.
Below are a few ways to organize your life in different areas.
Organize your clothes
The closet should contain only those things that you really need. Ask yourself the following questions:
- What colors do I like to wear most?
- Which styles suit me best?
- If I could only have 40 pieces of clothing left, what would they be?
Imagine that you open your closet in the morning to pick up things for work, and in it there are only those clothes that you like, fit you well, are appropriate and compatible. Keep your closet organized and filled with only what you really need.
Organize your relationships with people
Life is too short to waste it interacting with people who spoil your mood or behave inappropriately towards you. Learn not only to get rid of the company of such people (many of us are experts here), but also to find those worthy of communication (this is an entire art).
Ask yourself the following questions:
- What kind of people do I want to be surrounded by?
- Who do I want in my social circle?
- Why do I need friendships?
- How do I see them?
Organize your goals
Explore your goals by finding new challenges - whether it's a challenge or a marathon - this will allow you to create the future you want.
When trying to organize your goals, ask yourself the following:
- Do I find this goal meaningful?
- Does this goal align with my beliefs, values, goals, and life?
- What emotions do I experience when I think about this goal? Delight, inspiration or sadness with stress?
When you establish and organize your goals, your life will become organized as well.
Organize your time
Stay organized when it comes to... Instead of adding tasks to your schedule willy-nilly, take a good look at each task before doing so. Do the following:
- Ask yourself: “Is this worthy of my time?”
- Then: “Will this add value to my day?”
- Conclude by answering the question: “Is this task helping me create the life I want for myself?”
Organize your thoughts
Whenever you start thinking about something bad, you can tell yourself: “I'm not going to think about it.” That's how simple it works.
Many people are surprised when they are told that they don't have to think bad thoughts. This is a brilliant revelation for anyone who truly understands its meaning. You don't have to think negative thoughts or worry about the future if you can't do anything right now. You don't have to be sad or dissatisfied.
Instead of passively allowing your inner voice to ramble on, actively choose what thoughts you are going to cultivate and nurture in your mind. Your personality will blossom from them. Therefore, choose the seeds for sowing very carefully.
We wish you good luck!
