People use their 24 hours in very different ways. Some have already learned to save time while others are still wasting it on something useless. Here are some habits that could be the reasons your day seems to be too short.
Learn to say no
You don’t want to sound rude and unkind. You don’t want to offend or hurt anyone’s feelings. As a result, you say “yes” more often than you should. Say “no” if your life, family life or career doesn’t suffer from it. You need to focus on the things that make a difference one way or another and the things that improve your life.
Get plenty of rest
Remember to take plenty of breaks during the day at work or at home. If you are a housewife and do your laundry, grocery shopping, cooking, gardening and house cleaning, at the end of the day you get tired and exhausted. Take breaks between homework. The same rule applies if you are an employee. Your productivity decreases if you don’t allow your mind and body to recover from time to time.
Skip meetings
Try another tip that can save you time. Skip the meetings and count how many hours a week you managed to save. A third of your working day can be spent in meetings, which is a big waste of time. You meet people, you talk about various things that don’t help you move forward. Your business is more important, so focus on what brings you some sort of profit.
No more distracting messages and notifications
The distractions themselves are less harmful and take time than recovery and the time it takes to get back to what you were doing and focus on your task. You read a text and it takes a few seconds, but after reading it it takes more than 20 minutes to fully restore concentration. Distractions take people away from their work and don’t allow them to focus.
Set limits and stick to them
Do not trust any type of application that you are offered to download. There are hundreds of them nowadays. Programmers have created mobile phone games and messengers to make our life more fun. We can talk to our friends and family through cell phones. But all these apps distract you and waste your time. Set limits if you can’t be without your apps.
Cut your losses
You don’t want to feel like a loser. And every time you fail, you keep trying. Well, in some situations this strategy does not work and leads to failure and waste of time. Even if you’ve invested hours in a project that seems unsuccessful, you’ll want to admit that you need to change and try something new.
