In Master Your Time in 10 Minutes a Day: Best Time Management Book for Anyone Struggling with Work-Life Balance, 2014, Michal Stawicki discloses how he works a full- time job and has managed to add other activities to his schedule, like church activities, family time, and creating multiple passive sources of income through his various writing activities.
The Ten- Minute Philosophy
Daily sustained actions bring results. Also, the more action is taken, the better the results up to a certain point. But, if efforts invested and results achieved were applied to a normal bell distribution curve, we could easily see that after a certain point, our results begin to wain. It is only through varying our actions and measuring our results, we learn to hit the sweet spot where our efforts bring the greatest results.
Thus, the ten- minute philosophy is that every sustained action will bring you results if you apply effort consistently to any goal. Draft your own personal mission statement. Now consistently work on developing habits that will help you achieve your mission and eliminate all those habits that interfere with achieving your mission.
10 Time Management Tips.
(1) Use a time journal to manage your time, recording what you do with your time in 30- minute increments to determine how you presently use your time and develop a plan to use time better.
(2) Work on important but non-urgent tasks, not the unimportant-urgent tasks Borrowing from Steven R. Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stawicki reminds us of the important-unimportant and urgent-not urgent matrix that Covey developed and Covey’s advice to fit most of your activities into the box where the activities you perform are both important but not urgent.
(3) Don’t kill your time by performing activities that are time killers.
(4) Work every day because consistency is key to achieving results.
(5) Break all large tasks down into small tasks and prioritize them.
(6) Use at least one task list. Use two task lists if you are constantly interrupted, so you have a list of habit tasks that you get done during non-interrupted times, like during your morning routine, and another list of tasks that can be done time permitting.
(7) Block time and do tasks that are similar together in the same block of time.
(8) Eat that frog by doing the most difficult task first.
(9) When you have a small block of time, such as a commute on a train, find tiny tasks from your to-do list to fill in that time to get more done.
(10) Multitask by combining a mental task with a physical task, such visualize success while doing the dishes.
Confucius said, “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” But if you use these ten time management tips, you can speed up your progress in reaching any goal.
Rating: $$$$ out of five. Although these tips are recycled from others, such as Brian Tracy’s Eat that Frog, Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits Book of Highly Effective People, and Jeff Olsen’s The Slight Edge, sometimes it takes hearing how someone is managing his time and getting more done who is just slightly ahead of you to give you the boost you need to move ahead. I am constantly interrupted during the day and found the discussion of the two task lists quite helpful.
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