It's a good idea to make a beautiful schedule for all your urgent and not-so-important things. But for some reason, it is never possible to follow the schedule exactly. Some tasks take longer than originally planned, others are overlooked despite the schedule, and unforeseen circumstances appear with alarming frequency. But still, following the schedule and keeping up with everything is always possible, if you take into account a few rules.
Instructions
Step 1
Make a schedule for each day. Even if you have a to-do list to get done within a month or a week, it doesn't stop you from planning your day. How else can you manage your life if you cannot plan even one day?
Step 2
Use a paper planner. He is not afraid of power drops and computer breakdown. In addition, according to psychologists, everything written with a pen on paper is deposited in a person's memory better than what is captured on a screen.
Step 3
When scheduling, divide your activities into five groups. The first group includes very urgent matters. They need to be done at all costs. Take on such things in the first place, even if you are lazy or you do not know which side to approach the problem. The second group includes matters that are important, but not particularly urgent. It is advisable to do them as planned, but nothing bad will happen if you move the deadlines a little. The third group - things that can be entrusted to someone: a colleague, a subordinate, a husband, a child. And lastly, write down the tasks on the schedule, which, in principle, you can refuse.
Step 4
Don't set yourself precise deadlines down to the minute. You are not a high-speed electric train, but a living person. If you write your report not by half past three in the afternoon, but by three o'clock, nothing bad will happen. Solve another problem faster than expected. But if you do not fit into the framework that you set for yourself, then you will start to get nervous, angry and in the end it will be even more difficult to follow the schedule.
Step 5
Do not blame yourself if everything planned and planned does not always work out. Remember Pareto's law. It says that a person achieves eighty percent of the result with twenty percent of efforts. Conversely, eighty percent of all cases create only twenty percent of the outcome. In other words, four-fifths of the time you are essentially doing unnecessary things. So is it worth getting upset if something falls out of your schedule?
