I want to subvert your subverted cognition.

Since Li Xiaolai’s “You cannot manage time, you can only manage yourself” became a famous saying, various views on time management have emerged one after another, and in order to attract traffic, the words are quite decisive.

Especially recently, the term energy management has become very popular. Some people are very precise, saying that only energy can be managed, but time cannot be managed.

I just find it ridiculous. Doesn’t it take time to manage energy?

Therefore, I must explain the concept of time management here, which is to do the right thing at the right time. It does not mean that we must arrange many things in a day regardless of our energy status.

Time management includes energy management, but the two are not at the same level, or energy management overrides time management.

Let me give you an extreme example. If you only consider energy and not time, then everyone will choose to live broadcast in the morning when they are more energetic. The reason why most people choose to live broadcast at night is because at night Heavy traffic. Therefore, the priority of time management must be higher than energy management.

Energy management is only a certain part of time management, not the highest priority. The specific formula is as follows: fixed schedule gt; priority of list gt; energy management principles.

1. Energy management takes time

There are many ways to restore energy. The most well-known ones are to go to bed early and get up early and take a short break at noon. Every child will be taught that if they don’t go to bed early, they will not be energetic tomorrow. If this is defined as energy management, then setting bedtime and sleep duration is time management.

If someone says that energy management is more important than time management, they are constantly reasoning with the child, but do not set rules for him about when to go to bed and when to wake up.

To use another analogy, if someone says that physical exercise is more important than health management, you will definitely be confused. Health management of course includes physical exercise. Similarly, time management naturally includes energy management. The two are supersets and subsets. It is wrong to force a distinction between superior and inferior, or to completely believe that time management has no effect.

2. Time management is the prerequisite for energy management

Time management includes multiple parts. Although energy management can maximize time efficiency, energy management is only one part. Optional.

How to manage your energy well? The best tool is the great time management tool, Pomodoro. The 25 5 mode allocates concentration time and rest time well.

In addition, it is also a very good method to do energy-consuming tasks and energy-replenishing tasks at intervals, but allocating the time period and duration of the two tasks requires time management first.

Finally, the only solution is to expand the energy pool once and for all. Through exercise, if the original energy pool of 3 volts is expanded to 6 volts, the efficiency of the entire person will be doubled.

However, in order to divide exercise time every day, doesn’t it require time management? Half an hour before going to bed and after eating is not suitable for exercise. Don’t you need to plan in advance?

To give a less appropriate example, if you manage your energy well, but playing games during high-energy periods and playing more complex games, is that useful? Are you getting closer to your goal? !

Therefore, the correct approach is to honestly list the daily tasks and arrange them at the appropriate time based on their importance and energy status at each period.

Energy management is an important consideration in time management, but it can never replace time management.

3. Energy management makes time management even more powerful

How do you manage time?

Step one: Make a schedule and schedule it at a fixed time.

Step 2: Make a list and arrange it at a suitable time.

Step 3: Stuck on step 2...

What kind of time is the right time? This is the most troublesome.

Just the importance, urgency, and deadlines alone are enough to make people dizzy. If there are temporary items inserted, everything will have to be rearranged, which is even more troublesome and unacceptable.

However, the above are all certain. In order to maximize the use of time, and taking into account energy management, it is necessary to arrange energy-restoring and energy-consuming matters at intervals, and to maximize energy periods, as well as Things to add to your energy expansion...

Learning time management is equivalent to being able to drive, and cooperating with energy management is equivalent to improving your skills, from the original C license to a B license.

However, although many people have learned a lot of theories and are full of complex terms, they are unable to apply what they have learned. That is because they do not have good tools. It is equivalent to having a driver's license but no car, and still cannot hit the road.

In fact, time management is not that complicated. After knowing the underlying logic, what is really important is the actual application in life.

As an experienced person who has studied time management for 22 years, read almost all time management books on the market, and achieved financial freedom through time management, I know that only through practice can we gain true knowledge.