How to use time efficiently?

The two greatest treasures of a person's life are: your talent and your time. More and more talent, but less time, our life can be said to exchange time for talent. If the day passes, we have less time, and talent does not increase, it is wasted time. So we have to save time and use time efficiently.

How to use time efficiently? I have the following suggestions:

1. Do what you really are interested in and in line with your goals in life.

I found that my "productivity" and my "interest" have a direct relationship, and this relationship is not a simple linear relationship. If I am not interested in things, I may spend 40% of the time, but only to produce 20% of the effect, if I am interested in things, I might spend 100% of the time and get 200% results. It's important to work hard and be healthy, but the key to really changing your state is psychological, not physical. What you need to really put into your work is an attitude, a desire, a will.

2, know how your time is spent.

Pick one weeks, record every 30 minutes, and then do a classification (e.g., reading, preparing for GRE, chatting with friends, community activities, etc.) and statistics to see how much time you have spent. All things want to progress, must first understand the status quo. At the end of the day, write down what you do all day, every 15 minutes for a unit (for example: 1:00-1:15, 1:15-1:45 a ride, 1:45-2:45 tea with friends ...). After the end of the week, analyze how your time this week can be more efficiently scheduled? Is there any way to increase efficiency?

3. Use time Fragment and "Dead Time".

If you do the above time statistics, you must find a lot of time every day lost, such as waiting for a bus, queuing, walking, hitchhiking, etc., can be used to memorize words, telephone, review lessons. Now can surf the internet anytime, so there is no excuse to daze again. When I was on a business trip with my colleagues, they were amazed at why I stayed with them all day, but my emails were answered in time. Later, they found out that when they were chatting on the plane and the car, reading magazines and staring blankly, I took all the emails back. The point is, whether you're busy or not, you have to be prepared to make use of time debris before you have a plan to do it in your free time.

4. The first thing is to pick out the most important three things in the early morning, the day must be able to finish.

The only thing you can do in your life and work is to prioritize. To understand urgency is not equal to important things. Every day in addition to the urgent and important things, we must pay attention to not become a slave to the emergency. Some urgent but unimportant thing, you must learn to let go, must be able to say to the person no! And it's best to have one of those three things every day that's important but not urgent in order to make sure you don't become a slave to the emergency.

5. Have discipline.

Some young people will say that they do not have time to learn, in fact, in other words, "learning is not ranked priority order." Once there was a teacher who taught the students to do time management, he brought two large aquarium and a pile of stones of different sizes in class. He did an experiment, in one of the glass in the first small stone, sand poured into the last big stone will not be put down. In another aquarium, the first to enlarge the stone, other small stones and sand can slowly penetrate. He said: "Time management is to find their own priorities, if the reverse order, a pile of trivial matter to fill the time, there is no vacancy for important things." ”

6, the use of 80%-20% principles.

If people use the most efficient time, as long as 20% of the input can produce 80% efficiency. In contrast, 80% of the time spent can only produce 20% efficiency if the minimum effective time is used. One day when the mind is most clear, it should be placed in the most need to concentrate on the work. The time spent with friends and family is relatively not as clear as the mind. So, we have to grasp the most efficient time of the day 20% (some people are in the morning, some people are in the afternoon and the evening, in addition to time, but also to see your mentality, blood sugar level, rest is sufficient and other comprehensive considerations, specifically for the most difficult subjects and the most need to think about the study. Many students like to stay up late, but it's a good night to go to bed and get up early.

7. Balance work and family.

My family time allocation is in the following principles:

Draw a line, make a commitment to your family, and be sure to do it, but expect to be forgiven at other times. Set lower expectations to avoid disappointment.

Busy time-don't neglect your family as soon as you work, sometimes 10 minutes of thoughtfulness is more useful than 10 hours of companionship.

Busy stealing-Learn how to use time debris. For example, when your family doesn't get up, you can use the free time to do the work you need.

Focus on quality time (quality times)-Not every minute is the same, sometimes it takes concentration, and sometimes it's OK to sit next to the Internet. Remember that your family usually sacrifices a lot for you, holiday, weekend is your opportunity to compensate.