Some of this also relates to organizing and optimizing your social life, but more broadly to organizing your time. For example, scheduling important tasks and things you want or need to do as if they were social engagements is a good example of how you can organize your time.

But there is much more than that.

Let’s take a look at some of the things you can do to organize your time a little more easily.

Recognize your limits
The first and absolute most important point to consider when planning your time is that you has to consider your own limitations. This is where many of us go wrong because we forget that our energy is finite just like our time.

A perfect example of a mistake is if you write yourself a new training and diet program. We often come up with weight loss plans that basically involve exercising for an additional 3 hours in addition to our usual workout routines. weather also diet.

So now you have less energy and are expected to start exerting yourself for a total of three hours, in addition to traveling to and from the gym?

This just doesn’t work.

If you find that you are not currently doing all the things that you would like to do, then once again you need to prioritize. Do you find that you are not as healthy as you would like? Then maybe it’s time to stop going to the pub with your friends once a week. Have you never been able to do housework? Then maybe you need to quit that karate class!

Walk or sit, don’t wobble!
Similarly, you need to make sure that you always have time to recover. In fact, we are much more productive overall when we have been given some time to recover and recharge our batteries. If you just do one thing after another constantly, you will eventually get tired and stop working properly.

The title of this section is actually an old saying that is particularly relevant to this particular discussion. “Walk or sit, don’t stagger” basically means that you have to divide your time between resting and working. This prevents you from getting into situations where you are ‘half working’.

Half working is the worst, because it means that you are not doing much but you are not relaxing either.

Just as bad it is “kind of relaxing”. Half relaxing is what you do when you’re too tired to do anything useful, but you feel like you can’t justify putting on a movie, reading a book, or taking a bath. Instead, you just sit there, watching crap TV. At the end of the day, you haven’t accomplished anything, but you haven’t been able to enjoy your free time either.

That’s why you need let yourself that recovery time and then make full use of it. Better yet, schedule it so you can wait for it while you work.

Scheduling your tasks
When deciding when to schedule those important tasks and when to schedule rest, it’s helpful to consider the natural ebbs and flows of your energy.

We all have times of day when we are most productive and times of day when we crash. Most of us, for example, will find that we crash when we get home from work and that we are less productive at work after 4 p.m. Also, it takes a little time to get around to be productive.

It is also important to consider how our other activities impact our energy levels. One of the easiest ways to burn out and want to collapse, for example, is to have dinner. Once you’ve eaten, your body needs to digest and that leaves you with little energy to do anything else.

So instead of making dinner, eating on the couch, and then planning to order, homework should always come. before food.

Don’t sit on the couch if you want to keep your energy levels up, and don’t eat until you’ve completed at least your most important task. You can always enjoy a light snack when you come in if you are too hungry to do something!

Multitask
In the chapter on work, we’ll talk about how multitasking can be a bad thing. However, in the right circumstances, multitasking can be very Useful.

Multitasking at work doesn’t usually work, but in your private life it can be useful in any situation where one of the tasks doesn’t require your full attention.

So for example, if you need to go shopping, you can call a friend on your headset while you are shopping. This way you can catch up on your correspondence and at the same time get the food – two birds killed with one stone!

Similarly, you can sort bills while you wash, or you can research activities on a tablet while cooking.

This can help you literally achieve double in many circumstances, so start looking for opportunities to check off more than one of your tasks at a time!

Close open loops
A very important tip to help you feel more on top of life is to close all those smaller and more complicated tasks that you consider “open loops.”

In the next chapter, we’ll see that it makes sense to work on the biggest and most difficult task first so that you can ensure maximum productivity. At home, however, you would like to do the opposite.

Tasks are generally less urgent at home, so it makes sense to check off the smallest things you have to do to have less stress and fewer things on your mind.

This means things like paying that bill, things like calling that friend, things like confirming your attendance at that event. We put off these jobs because we find them stressful and we don’t want to waste energy thinking about them. However, as a result, we actually end up caring for them unconsciously and having less time and energy available to do anything else.

If you have something that you can quickly complete that is on your mind, tell yourself: it should be done eventually, so it’s best to get it out of the way.

Every day when you get home from work, take half an hour to close those ‘open loops’ to have a little unconscious list of ‘to-dos’.