How To Organize Your Day For
Success
Successful people are
known to be great at practicing tips on time management. Chances are, if you
want to be an extremely successful professional at your chosen field, you
should also learn how to organize your day effectively.
So now, you’re excited.
You’re pumped.
You can’t wait to get started and organize
your day right away. There’s a tiny problem, though: Where should you
start? With all the tips, techniques, and tricks scattered all over
the Internet, which tips are really going to be effective and convenient for
you to adapt? With all the stress and the expectations during your day, how can
you even get started?
The first thing that you should take note of
is the definition of time. Simply put, time is an idea that’s relative, depending on
how you define it. You may think that one hour spent on writing an
article is a luxury, while other writers believe that you would need to spend
at least two hours to do so. You may think that fifteen minutes spent on
brainstorming your ideas is already enough, while some entrepreneurs even spend
three days just to brainstorm. Also, you may believe that spending time with
your loved ones should be done everyday, while some people simply think it’s a
waste of time!
You see, time is subjective. Your concept of
time is different from other people’s idea of it. Therefore, everything
that you read and learn about time management is irrelevant if you don’t
believe that time needs to be managed. If you think that your time is
worthless, if you’d rather watch TV all day than work on your personal growth,
or if you’d rather spend all day in bed sleeping instead of trying to make a
change in your life, organizing your day for success is not the answer.
Focus on
being inspired and
pursuing your passion first.
If you think that your time is valuable, on
the other hand, here are five tips to help you organize it successfully:
1.
Plan your day the night before.
Before going to sleep, make sure that you’re
going to start your day with a purpose. Whip up a journal or a planner and put
your action plans for the next day in there.
To give you a guideline, you should have at
least four plans for everyday: one should be work-related, one should be for a
personal activity like an errand, and two should be for accomplishing your life
dreams.
2.
Schedule for interruptions.
Get frustration out of the picture by setting
up time allowances in your plan. If you say that you’re going to write an
article from 08:00 to 08:45 and then you’re going to write a blog post from
08:46 to 09:30, you’re just setting yourself up for trouble!
Expect that not everything will go as
planned. You will only be able to organize your day successfully if you plan
for interruptions.
3.
Start your day with accomplishing something big.
When eating a meal, you start eating the food
that you don’t like first so that you can focus on enjoying the rest of the
meal, right? The same goes for your day. If you have a big thing that you need
to accomplish, do it first.
This way, even if you don’t accomplish
anything else, you can still say that you did something productive at least.
4.
Use a time-tracking application to help you stay on track.
Of course you can still check on Facebook and
Twitter — you just need to plan for it and track your time doing these activities
so that you won’t get distracted.
Toggl, SlimTimer, and RescueTime are nice
tools to help you get started.
5.
Accept the fact that you’re not going to be able to do it all in one day.
You’re not Superman (or are you…?) so you
can’t do everything in one day. Instead of working on a big project in one day
and cramming it, arrange milestones instead. Don’t get frustrated if you weren’t
able to finish everything you’ve planned.
Remember, you still have next time.
We hope that by that time, you’ll be wise
enough to practice what you’ve read in this article and organize your day
right.
Lianne Martha Maiquez Laroya
https://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/how-organize-your-day-for-success.html
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