Nastai87
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Joined Jan 13, 2022
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Living in Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Last active Aug 10, 2022
My technique is to ask myself, at the end of the day, if I have completed at least one task. It doesn't matter how big or how big it is. My answer is rarely “no”. Upstream, of course, my permanent ambition is to achieve this objective. I've seen too many co-workers slowly crumble from feeling like they're never getting anything done. Completing at least one task a day, big or small, maintains a sense of control—a basic psychological need—over one's life. Wasting time is having no control.
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Nastai87
January 20, 2022
That's a very vague question...I'm obsessed with time, so everything I do is to manage it better. The trick is that you first have to realize that you can't manage time.. time is moving, flowing, constantly, whether you like it or not. We can manage our tasks, our responsibilities, our appointments, our occupations... Two notions help me to manage my productivity and my balance in an optimal way: Plan my days Every morning, I make a list of the things I want to accomplish today, I call them "intentions" (it's less scary than a task and then it reflects more commitment than workload). This list doesn't come out of nowhere, I'm going to dig into a sort of "mega list" in which new things to do, to achieve, to discover are constantly piling up on a daily basis. So from this mega list, I'm going to pick what can be done today, either because the deadline requires it, or because it's the right day to do it, or sometimes just because I have wanted to do this today. FYI, I do this exercise twice every morning, first at home for my personal life and once in the office for my work responsibilities. I prioritize my tasks with this good old Eisenhower matrix (urgent? important?) and therefore I necessarily attack with important emergencies, to leave more and more time and space for things that are important and not urgent. If I haven't emptied my daily list at the end of the day, some tasks will switch to the next day, or else (if they switch too often), I reduce them, even more, to be able to start somewhere (example: if I have the task “fix the fridge lamp” and I drag it 4 days in a row without doing it, I replace it with “put a screwdriver next to the fridge”)2. Make an appointment with me For things that are important, I lock specific time slots during the week that I don't touch. I call it “making an appointment with myself”. In other words, if I say that Tuesday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. I have an appointment with myself to learn the guitar, no one will prevent me from learning the guitar at that time. If they offer me something else, I'll say "sorry, I already have a booked appointment". This allows you to keep in view what is essential. You can make an appointment with yourself to play with your children, relax, continue to train yourself, slowly progress on your micro-enterprise project... etc. Contrary to what one might think, this system is not rigid, on the contrary, it adds flexibility because it reduces stress and anxiety. When you know what you have to do and when you feel freer to do everything else elsewhere, you feel less guilty about having fun and you realize little by little that you have more and more time to yourself.
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