25 Time management hacks#
- Work less, have more fun
- Only plan for 4-5 hours of real work per day. Days always fil up
- It's normal to have days where you just can't work and days where you'll work 12 hours straight. Work more when you're in the zone. Relax when you're not.
- Stop multitasking. It merely kills your focus.
- Set up a work routine and stick with it. Your body will adapt.
- We're always more focused and productive with limited time.
- Work is the best way to get working. Start with short tasks to get the ball rolling
- Doing is better than perfect. Work iteratively. Expectations to do things perfectly are stifling.
- More work hours doesn't mean more productivity. Use constraints tas opportunities.
- Seperate thinking and execution to execute faster and think better. Seperate brainless and strategic tasks to become motre productive.
- Organize meetings early during the day. Time leading up to an event is often wasted.
- Group meetings and communication (email or phone) to create blocks of uninterrupted work.
- Keep the same context throughout the day. Switching between projects/clients is unproductive.
- Work around procrastination. Procrastinate between intense sprints of work (Pomodoro)
- Break the unreasonable down into reasonable chunks. A big goal is only achieved when every little thing that you do everyday, gets you closer to that goal.
- No 2 tasks ever hold the same importance. Always prioritize. Be realy careful with to-do lists....
- Only work on the thing that will have the biggest impact. Always know the one thing you really need to get done during the day.
- Break tasks into hour increments. Long tasks are hard to get into; feels like it needs to get done.
- If something can be done 80% as well by someone else, delegate. Delegate and learn how to make use of other people.
- Turn the page on yesterday. Only ever think about today and tomorrow.
- Set deadlines for everything. Don't led tasks go on indefinitely.
- Set end dates for intense or stressful activities. Everythign ends at some point.
- "Get a remidner app for everything. Do not trust your brain for your memory". Always take notes.
- Write down anything that distracts you - Google searches, random thoughts, new ideas, whatever. The point is, if you write them down, they'll stop bubbling up when you're in the zone.
- Take breaks. Sometimes.
References: Slideshare by Etienne Garbugli