Tips and strategies for efficient time management

Efficient time management

Efficient time management checks that you are managing your time properly, distributing priorities in convenient time slots, without harming your personal hygiene and rest times. It is the ability to organize time to fulfill all your work and home activities satisfactorily; taking into account the most important factors of day to day such as rest, sleep, social life, among others.

Time Management Strategies

Here are some effective time management strategies that have worked for countless people to improve their performance throughout the day

• Time boxing or time blocks 

This is a time management strategy that organizes each activity in a certain period of time as the case warrants. Blocks of time must not be longer than three hours.

To delimit the blocks of time, establish priorities, associate similar tasks that you can work on at the same time in the same block and finish before starting another activity.

• Strategy with timer

The timer method arranges your breaks to alternate with the time blocks in which you work. These rest spaces favor motivation and benefit the brain.

You should set a timer for 25 minutes and try to do an activity and finish it; avoiding doing other things that are not within that block such as reading messages or attending social networks. At the end of the activity you must rest for 5 minutes and so on.

• Strategy of the morning

Doing the hardest or longest tasks first makes the rest easier to do. This strategy generally groups the most demanding activities in the early hours of the morning.

• Strategy of the Pareto law "80/20"

This strategy is based on the law of Pareto, an Italian philosopher and engineer who proposed the 20/80 relationship applicable to different areas of life.

It consists of spending 20% of your time on 80% of your work and you can end 20% of your work more rested on the remaining 80%. This method and the previous one are opposed to each other; but you can choose the one that suits you best

• Getting Things Done Strategy

This method consists of writing down the tasks that you have to perform; In this way, you will be able to concentrate more on finishing your tasks and not have to take time remembering what your next task was to do.

Tips

Here is a list of useful tips for you to organize your time in the most efficient way possible:

• Track your tasks and your time to start.

• Set priorities for each activity.

• Plan your activities ahead of time, preferably the day before.

• Delegate activities and learn to say no, so as not to overwhelm yourself.

• Disable notifications from your smartphone. Social networks. they subtly steal much of your time without you realizing it.

• Organize your space before starting the pending activity.

• Group activities that you think you can do at the same time.

• Start your homework first thing in the morning.

• Remember to take the necessary breaks.

• Take note of all your tasks to avoid forgetting them.

• Take time to enjoy with your family.

• Avoid overloads and stress.

We all have the ability to perform multiple activities throughout the day. However, not all of them are successful. On certain occasions you will feel compelled to refuse jobs or activities. Or maybe you will not be able to fulfill all the tasks proposed for the day. Despite this, do not be discouraged; apply these strategies and they will help you to have more organization and efficient time management.

Benefits

Having efficient time management brings certain benefits, among which are having more free time, devoting more time to your social, personal and family life, and reducing stress due to exhaustion. In addition, improve your productivity, and you will be able to meet more objectives.

In LOOPER we work strategically, so we improved and created effective time management techniques that help us to provide an excellent quality service to all of our clients.