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Three tips on how to manage your time & attention and increase productivity
| Guest post by: Jennifer Nuce |
Article Overview: Busy professionals can all relate to feeling like there is just not enough time in the day. The world is out for our attention and workplace reactive behaviour is on the rise. Multitasking, once considered an attribute, has now come to light as having some pretty serious consequences. Your attention is your most valuable asset, take some time to find out where it is being spent.
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Three tips on how to manage your time & attention and increase productivity
THOSE WHO MAKE THE WORSE USE OF THEIRTIMEARE THE FIRST TO COMPLAIN OF ITS SHORTNESS.
Jean De La Bruyere
On average, employees admit they waste two hours a day. This doesn’t include time that is wasted on multi-tasking, and searching for lost documents
ONE CANNOT MANAGE TOO MANY AFFAIRS: LIKE PUMPKINS IN THE WATER, ONE POPS UP WHILE YOU TRY TO HOLD DOWN THE OTHER-Chinese Proverb.
Executives waste about six weeks a year searching for lost documents, and the effects of multi-tasking can lead to the I.Q. of an individual who has lost an entire nights sleep, or smoked marijuana.
Trouble is, we often have no idea where our attention is going. The entire world is striving to get our attention, and it is being diluted one tweet, e-mail, text, commercial, advertisement, siren, next door neighbor at a time.
Here are three tips on how to find out where your attention is going and how to get more out of your week.
1.)Become a detective, find out exactly where this time is going. For one week straight, try to track how you spend your hours, pretend your hours are dollars. Imagine, if you have 24 (hour) dollars a day, how will you spend them? Would you give them away to your chatter box co-worker sitting in the cubicle next to you for free? Would you give them away to Facebook? Hey, it’s your life.
TIME IS THE COIN OF YOUR LIFE. IT IS THE ONLY COIN YOU HAVE, AND ONLY YOU CAN DETERMINE HOW IT WILL BE SPENT. BE CAREFUL LEST YOU LET OTHER PEOPLE SPEND IT FOR YOU.Carl Sandburg
2.)Take some (time) to figure out where you are bleeding out time, where you are carelessly giving it away. The next step is understanding that it doesn’t do any good to schedule things into your calendar and not acknowledge that you must focus your attention on the task at hand, give it boundaries so you can have a start and stop time.
BETTER THREE HOURS TOO SOON, THAN ONE MINUTE TOO LATE.
William Shakespeare
3.)When you schedule in a task, give it attention, and a deadline, you will most likely finish it 80% sooner. You will have put in 20% of the time, and will get 80% of your results. When you let things slide, each task, appointment, activity, gets pushed into the other, and they all come tumbling down like dominos.
Make some time, to get great at managing your attention.
I guarantee it will change your life, personally and professionally.
Related Articles1.)Become a detective, find out exactly where this time is going. For one week straight, try to track how you spend your hours, pretend your hours are dollars. Imagine, if you have 24 (hour) dollars a day, how will you spend them? Would you give them away to your chatter box co-worker sitting in the cubicle next to you for free? Would you give them away to Facebook? Hey, it’s your life.
TIME IS THE COIN OF YOUR LIFE. IT IS THE ONLY COIN YOU HAVE, AND ONLY YOU CAN DETERMINE HOW IT WILL BE SPENT. BE CAREFUL LEST YOU LET OTHER PEOPLE SPEND IT FOR YOU.Carl Sandburg
2.)Take some (time) to figure out where you are bleeding out time, where you are carelessly giving it away. The next step is understanding that it doesn’t do any good to schedule things into your calendar and not acknowledge that you must focus your attention on the task at hand, give it boundaries so you can have a start and stop time.
BETTER THREE HOURS TOO SOON, THAN ONE MINUTE TOO LATE.
William Shakespeare
3.)When you schedule in a task, give it attention, and a deadline, you will most likely finish it 80% sooner. You will have put in 20% of the time, and will get 80% of your results. When you let things slide, each task, appointment, activity, gets pushed into the other, and they all come tumbling down like dominos.
Make some time, to get great at managing your attention.
I guarantee it will change your life, personally and professionally.
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