The ability to manage your time correctly helps a person to keep up with everything and not be late. It is impossible to find additional hours in the day, but it is in your power to organize the time correctly and make it work for you.
Time management is devoted to one of the branches of psychology - time management, the main task of which is to teach a person to separate the main from the secondary. Self-management specialist L. Seivert states: "Anyone who regularly prepares his working day for ten minutes saves up to two hours of time and is guaranteed to do better." Undoubtedly, it is easier to organize a day at the service than the monotonous home life, into which various "time absorbers" are trying to wedge themselves every now and then. For example, as soon as you started something important, the phone rang and your friend is in a hurry to tell you the latest news. Having decided to look through your e-mail, you look at all social networks for a minute and hang out on the Internet for a long time. As a result, you are constantly busy, but do not really have time to do anything, choking in the stream of urgent and urgent matters. It is precisely this situation that a clear goal setting and an ordinary piece of paper with written cases can avoid.
The main tool for controlling time is planning. Try writing down your plans and thoughts, and posting the notes in a prominent place. Thus, you will involuntarily think through and organize things, and the lists will direct your thoughts in the right direction. There is long-term and short-term planning. Long-term is a list of things that need to be done in a week or two, short-term is something that needs to be done in one day. First of all, decide on your long-term plans. Think about what to do this week. Write down all the things from the smallest to the largest in a notebook: to wish your girlfriend a happy birthday, to buy groceries, make utility bills, etc. Having made a list of tasks for the week, you will have an idea of the upcoming work front and you will surely not miss anything.
Short-term planning involves determining the main things of the coming day even before it comes, for example, the night before. Your subconscious mind will tune in to their implementation in advance, and in the morning you will be able to start implementing your plans fully armed. Sit down and jot everything down, picking tasks from your weekly scheduling and diluting them with daily routine. In the to-do list for the day, you can include something like the following: cook stewed fruit, go to the clinic, do maths with your child, iron the linen, read a book, dismantle the cupboard in the kitchen, etc. The tasks in it should have a gradation in importance, the secondary ones should be subordinate to the main ones. Once you've identified which of the items are the most significant, underline them. There should not be many such tasks, no more than two or three. Try for each of the points to determine the length of time when you will perform this or that task.
On a daily to-do list, most of the to-do's will be regular - routine. Train yourself to do them at a certain time, then they will become familiar and not burdensome. For example, make your bed immediately after waking up, do exercises before breakfast, and before going to bed, be sure to wash the dishes so that you can come to the cleaned kitchen in the morning. Once you've made a plan for the day, you will notice that some things can be done at the same time. For example, disassemble the locker and cook dinner, work with the child and iron the shirts of the husband.
