So how can you learn to manage time and tasks, and take control of your work, study and life? Here is a set of methods selected for you based on my experience:
4 Ways to balance Your Work Life, even as a student
The rules that help me manage my time and complete tasks efficiently every day: 1-3-5 To-Do List Rule.
1. Simply put, this rule is to “set limits” for what you have to do every day: arrange 1 important task, 3 medium tasks, and 5 small chores every day. The more organised you are, the better your life gets.The advantage of setting limits in this way is to help yourself regain the focus of work, study, and life.
- Rule Number one corresponds to a “large” task that is “the most important and urgent” (consuming time and energy).
- Rule number 3 corresponds to three important (urgent or not urgent) medium-sized tasks; but if you still have important and soon-to-be-urgent things, put medium-sized tasks first.
- Rule number 5 corresponds to five small tasks that are urgent but not important, or things that are neither urgent nor important but you want to do.
The order of doing these tasks is generally: first 1, then 3, and finally 5. But you can also make some fine-tuning according to your actual situation (if you can ensure that 1 and 3 are completed).
However, you can use the 1-3-5 rule for daily tasks or short-term tasks.
2. How do I deal with long-term tasks and goals?
Strategies to help me accomplish long-term goals and tasks: “Start quickly, end slowly.”
Most people have the problem of procrastination, especially for long-term goals or tasks, the habit of procrastination is even more serious. Because deadlines and deadlines are long, there is little or no pressure.
Even if the required tasks are delayed, there will still be a mandatory deadline to complete it in the end; but your own plan basically has no deadline, and even if you set the deadline yourself, there will not be much sense of urgency. So many people’s goals and dreams have dissipated like bubbles.
The correct method should be the other way around, that is, “start quickly and end slowly.” As soon as you receive the task, start working on it immediately. First draft a plan and complete a small part of it every day according to the plan.
For example, when training with the “Elite Speed Reading and Memory Training Software”, the best way is to start quickly and end slowly, because the ability to read and memorise quickly cannot be achieved overnight. So, the best way is to take some time every day to persist in training.
Then continue to use and consolidate it in your daily reading and study. After a month, you will have a qualitative improvement.
Although this method seems to take a long time, the total time is not much, and slowly you will find that you will be involuntarily eager to complete more tasks. The quality of the final product will also be much higher, because in the process of completing it step by step, you will gradually discover some problems and omissions, and gradually improve it.
If you implement the “start slowly, finish quickly” strategy for all tasks, the result will be making yourself busier and busier, which will definitely produce the worst result.
Let’s take the four-quadrant rule of time management we mentioned earlier. If you don’t deal with the “important but not too urgent” tasks, the end result will be that your “urgent and important” tasks will accumulate more and more. It is bound to make you busier and more anxious.
Therefore, if we want to take control of our lives and work, we must learn to give ourselves some plans, list your to-do tasks, and then adopt the “start quickly, end slowly” strategy to gradually implement and complete them. This way you won’t stay still or get worse.
3. Many tasks are asked of us by others, but how can we make the things we “want to do” come to fruition?
Apart from Strategizing to help me accomplish what I want to do, I also set up “sacred time”.
This concept of “sacred time” relates to a source of spiritual power. It is the special time you quietly withdraw from all activities to briefly meditate. It’s crucial. But, it’s the time set aside for yourself every day to do the things you really want to do.
At this time, it is easy not to compromise with anyone or anything. Each of us has the same time every day, and has his own study tasks and work tasks. Everyone has more or less free time every day. The only question is whether you have “protected your free time” . Planning sacred time means protecting your time and protecting the goals or wishes you want to accomplish.
- Sacred time usually does not require a lot of time, usually 1-2 hours is enough; because one or two hours is basically enough for small things and small people; this amount of time is far from enough for big things and big tasks. The key is that “You really leave time to do it”.
What is one of the things I have managed my time so well with?
.Reading and Memory:
After reading a book , I make sure that I answer questions based on the book. After I finish reading this book, I once again answer the questions I asked before reading based on the content of the book.
Pay close attention to the answers. Finally, compare the answers before reading with the answers after reading to see how many of your answers are the same as what the author said, and what are the omissions and gaps, and then focus on these omissions, gaps, and differences.
Thank you, I believe My “Four ways to manage your work life effectively, even as a student ” is a very educational and time-saving method.
