Do you find yourself constantly busy or working longer and longer hours and not having enough time in each day to do what you want to do? It was certainly a feeling that I had. It seemed like no matter how hard I tried at work, I was always behind where I wanted to be and my hours were starting to stretch as a result.
I wrote a book review on the 4 Hour Workweek recently (see my full review here) and these are some of tips contained in that book which I put into place. When I implemented the strategy below I found myself being roughly ~3 times more efficient
I wrote a book review on the 4 Hour Workweek recently (see my full review here) and these are some of tips contained in that book which I put into place. When I implemented the strategy below I found myself being roughly ~3 times more efficient
Identify your time wasters
The first thing you need to do is to identify what you waste time on. What you waste time doing is completely different to what I waste time doing. When I say waste time I'm not only talking about wasting time on Facebook (although that counts too!). There are both obvious and not so obvious ways that we all waste time
Obvious time wasters
These time wasters are some that we know are 'naughty' and that waste time however we often view them as taking a few minutes out of each day and not really contributing that much to our inefficiency. Examples can include
- Spending time on Facebook
- Playing games on your phone
- Chatting to people in the office about your social life
- Watching a YouTube video that someone forwards to you
- Getting a coffee with someone and sitting down for 'a quick chat'
Add up how much time you spend on each of these and other obvious time wasters and you will be amazed at how much of your day goes on these things which you know are bad. Minimising office banter and conversation alone saved me ~1 hour every day. If you think that this makes the office 'more fun' just think about whether you'd rather office banter or an earlier time to leave the office...easy decision in my books.
The time wasters which we use to feel efficient
These are the most insidious types of time wasters because we feel like we are being efficient and are doing something. However they make