Make your personal efficiency three times times.

  Make your personal efficiency three times times     have you ever felt depressed when you look back on the week you've spent, because you're not doing as much work as you expect. When you build a successful career or your own career, time may be your most valuable asset, and how you spend your time directly determines your income. You can't buy the time that you own, and the clock ticks endlessly. A few years ago, I found a simple way to improve my productivity by nearly three times times, and in this article I'll share some very practical ideas that you can start right away, and you don't have to work harder than you do now. The first task of using a detailed schedule to better manage your time is to figure out the way you are now dominating your time. Using a schedule is the most effective way to complete this step. Just try one day and you'll instantly have incredible insight into where your time is going. This measurement is usually enough to elevate your unconscious habits to the level of consciousness so that you have the opportunity to examine and change them carefully. Here is how to use the timeline. Throughout the day when you start or complete an activity, record your time, and consider using a stopwatch to record the time interval for each activity. You can use this method only during working hours, or all day long. At the end of the day, record these time periods in a comprehensive category, and then find out the percentage of time you spend on each type of activity. If you want to do this thoroughly, you can keep doing it for a week, and then calculate the percentage of time you spend on each type of activity. Be as detailed as possible: write down how much time you spend on e-mails, reading newsgroups, surfing the web, making phone calls, eating, bathing, and so on. When you stand up from a chair, it may mean that you have to add a pen to your schedule. I usually have 50-100 schedule records at the end of the day. You may be surprised to find that you spend only a fraction of your total work time on activities that you consider to be substantive work. Studies have found that commuters spend an average of 1.5 hours a day on their substantive work. The rest of the time is spent socializing, taking breaks, eating, interacting with work, moving documents, and many other things unrelated to work. The average time for a full-time office worker is 11 o'clock in the morning, and around 3:30 P.M. it starts to slack off. Analyze your results when I first used my schedule, I spent about 60 hours a week in the office, but I only completed 15 hours of substantive work. Even if technically my efficiency is twice times the average of office workers, I am still annoyed by the result. Another 45 hours to where to go. My schedule clearly shows that time is lost in my unconscious state-checking emails too frequently, demanding perfection on things that are not actually necessary, reading through the news, eating too long, being interrupted by preventable interruptions, and so on. Calculate your personal efficiency than when I perceive myself inAfter 60 hours in the office and only 15 hours of substantive work, I started asking myself some interesting questions. My income and sense of accomplishment came only from those 15 hours, not all the time I spent in the office. So I decided to start documenting my daily efficiency ratio, which is the amount of time I spent on my substantive work divided by the total time I spent in the office. When I found myself using only 25% of the time, it really made me feel terrible. I also realized that it was extremely foolish to just prolong working hours. Efficiency ratio = Actual working time/total "working time" with reduced total time to drive efficiency if you've ever tried to discipline yourself to do things that you don't really have the motivation to do, you have a great chance of failure. This is the natural result when I try to constrain myself to work harder. In fact, trying harder would only lower my motivation and make my "efficiency ratio" lower. So I reluctantly decided to try the opposite approach. The next day I only allowed myself to stay in the office for 5 hours, and the rest of the day I was not allowed to work on my own. Ah, funny things happen, I'm sure you can imagine. My brain treats working hours as a rarity, because I've been working for almost a full 5 hours and more than 90% more efficient. I went on with the experiment in the next few days of the week, so in the 30 hours I spent in the office this week, I completed 25 hours of work, more than 80% efficiency. So I've reduced my weekly working hours to 30 hours and I've had 10 more hours to do substantive work. If your schedule shows that you are less efficient than you are, try to limit your total work time in one day and see what the results are. Once your brain realizes that working hours are tight, you suddenly become extremely efficient because you have to. When you have tight time limits, you usually find a way to get the job done. And when you have plenty of time, it's easy to become inefficient. Maintaining maximum efficiency while gradually increasing the total work time in a matter of weeks, I can gradually increase my weekly working hours while keeping my efficiency above  80%. So far I've been keeping this habit for years, usually about 40 hours a week for substantive work and just 45 hours in the office. I think it's great for me. If I try to stay in the office for a longer period of time, my productivity will go down fast. The best thing about this is that it allows me to optimize my productivity while also giving me a great balance in other areas of my life. I used this method to improve my career three times times and still have a lot of time to pursue my hobbies. Using a timeline is a wise choice to ensure productivity is optimal without the need to increase working hours. However, the schedule must be used on a regular basis to produce these advantages. I use a schedule every 3-6 months, and over the years it has made me a big change, always giving me a new and outstanding performance. If I don't have a schedule for too long, my productivity will gradually fall-For me again the unconscious waste of time habits. You will, as I do, find that your sense of productivity is closely related to how much work you have done. When you feel that your productivity is below what you want to achieve, use your schedule to raise your awareness and measure your "efficiency ratio" and then optimize your efficiency until productivity recovers. Recording a schedule is an efficient and effort-free way to do it, and its long-term rewards are staggering.