I wonder if you have similar confusion? I have always been confused like this, and I once doubted the effectiveness of time management. It was not until I read the book "Where is Time?" that I realized that I used the wrong way to open it. We can't refuse the continuous fragmentation of time and communication methods, and we can't escape from the fragmented era. All we can do is to adjust our original efficiency model.

The author of this book, Ji Yuan, graduated from Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Initiator of early bird community; Founder of Fruit Fishing Learning Association; Founder of xiangxue society. "Make the self-disciplined person free" is the creed of the era. He has been engaged in time management consulting and training for 8 years, and has provided time management consulting for nearly 1, people, knowing what it is like to be an efficient person. People who care about efficiency management and time management have a strong demand for self-discipline, but to limit themselves with strict regulations and plans, it is better to let themselves enjoy the impact and pleasure brought by the fragmentation era. After all, freedom is the real purpose of self-discipline.

How can there be no such thing as time? It tells us that in the era of fragmentation, time is broken, and we should follow it. Say goodbye to time management, you have to multi-thread tasks; Throw away the schedule and plan the time period that best suits your physical and mental comfort; Give up priority, what you want is to solve the most difficult problem in the shortest time.

This book gives me a description of time management instructions in the fragmentation era, and provides us with "three-level skills" and "three lists". If we can master and use them skillfully, we can cope with the impact brought by the fragmentation era freely and prepare for the future. This is a very grounded book, which introduces a variety of feasible time management methods, which is worth reading and practicing and recommended to everyone who wants to control time.

first, primary skills: use the time list to regain control of time

In the fragmented era, we don't need a timetable, because strict time will only increase our pressure and frustration, and the more detailed the time plan, the more difficult it is to implement. What we need most is to divide the time of the day into several time periods, and arrange daily affairs according to the six major elements of time, place, goods, environment, others and physical and mental state. The effective time of professionals is only 2-3 hours, so the key to allowing yourself to be in a bad state is to do the right thing at the right time.

Practice:

1. I will divide the disposable time of a day into four time periods: morning, working hours, after work and evening.

2. in the morning, because of less interference and high concentration, I will arrange to do things with high efficiency such as reading, planning and keeping a diary in the morning.

3. During working hours, there are many interruptions, mainly to arrange routine work. After the work is completed, I will actively urge my colleagues or subordinates who are working together to ask about their work progress, and report their work to the leader actively, so as to leave a good impression on the leader and actively "disturb" others, so as to avoid frequent interruptions and improve my concentration time. After lunch, people's energy is declining and they can't do creative work. I will arrange trivial things to accumulate a sense of accomplishment. For example, send and receive emails, arrange meetings and discussions that are beneficial to you.

4. Time period after work (1 hour), because after a day of intense work, what is needed at this time is relaxation and rest. I will arrange some entertainment time or: watching movies, brushing WeChat, signing in and punching in, etc.

5. In the evening, don't arrange reading, studying or thinking too much. The most important thing in the evening is to experience warmth: share food and information with family and friends, which is happiness. Secondly, the evening is used to cultivate your awareness of the present. You need to relax and concentrate, let yourself slow down and let your body relax, which will help you sleep. Finally, think about the schedule and task arrangement for the next day and get ready for tomorrow.

practical skill 1: how to insist on getting up early (forcing people to go to bed early by getting up early)

to get up early, there are three steps: saying, wake up and doing it.

1. Say: Make sure to get up the next day.

only when there are reliable time requirements can there be reliable execution. Set yourself a wake-up time, you can't make up your mind out of thin air, you can't be stressed, you have to get up at the time you really intend, so it will be reliable.

2.wake up: double alarm clock ensures getting out of bed.

how to set two alarm clocks, one called make and the other called up?

wake alarm clock, the time should be set at three minutes before the expected time to get up. For example, if you expect to get up at 6:, set the wake alarm clock at 5:57, and its sound should be soft to gently wake you up. Just put it on your bedside.

the time of the up alarm clock should be set at the expected time of getting up. As mentioned above, it is 6:. Its voice should be shocking enough to disturb your family and neighbors. Its function is to force you to get up without perseverance, so the up alarm clock must be placed where you have to get out of bed to hook it.

3. Do it: wake up refreshed and sleep peacefully

After turning off the UP alarm clock, you can do some waking actions that suit you and are determined in advance. Maybe five minutes is enough, such as drinking water, brushing your teeth, washing your face, doing light exercise, etc., which is to make yourself feel awake and concentrate on your work.

Practice the story:

These are the three steps that the author said to insist on getting up early, and the personal test is effective. I have insisted on getting up early for 2 days by this method.

I'll make sure to get up at 7: the next morning. Before going to bed, I'll set the alarm clock at 6:5 (it's cold in winter, so the reaction time should be longer), then set the alarm clock at 7: on my mobile phone and put it on the table in the living room. When the bracelet alarm clock vibrates, I will get up immediately and turn off the mobile phone alarm clock in the living room quickly, because I am afraid that the mobile phone alarm clock will wake the children at home.

Now that you have successfully got out of bed, the last step is waking up: brushing your teeth, washing your face, drinking water and doing squats. After I am awake, I will make a study plan in the morning and meditate for 1 minutes first, so that I can concentrate on other things later.

Sometimes, although we get out of bed successfully, we are still sleepy and want to go back to sleep. This shows that we didn't get enough sleep last night. You should go back to sleep with peace of mind, because your body needs to pay attention, just the next time: make sure you have enough sleep time the night before.

practical tip 2: how to break up

people, like mobile phones, all have batteries, and everything needs electricity. Unlike mobile phones, people's efficiency will decline when the battery is low, so they should be charged in time. About every four hours, people will have a low tide, and this is the time to rest. However, it is necessary to control the time of each nap within 2 minutes, otherwise it will affect sleeping at night.

Practice the story: I used to have the habit of taking a nap before, but because I slept for too long, the more I slept, the more confused my head became, and it affected my sleep time at night. After trying a fragmented rest, I found that I would have better working hours and working conditions.

second, advanced skills: establish a benign task processing system to do things efficiently.

We can't let the brain directly face the daily information, events, ideas and other debris, so we need to build a protective barrier for it. Like a reservoir, the debris list provides a buffer outside the brain. When the debris comes, it all enters the buffer, and the brain will deal with them at the right time, so that it can play a greater role.

to build a debris handling system, your first task is to choose a suitable tool-to build a debris list, and start to get into the habit of putting the debris into the list in time every day.

in the debris list, you need to write down three things.

information: the valuable information you find, write down its title.

things: what you want to do and what others ask you to do, and write down the contents of things.

ideas: ideas about what you want to do, change and try. Unlike things, ideas are usually not urgent.

Practice:

1. I also have my own fragmented list stationery --OmniFocus tool. I write down all kinds of tasks that I can think of every time, put them in my inbox, and clear my mind.

2. After collecting the fragmentation list, I will sort out these lists every day and classify them: for the tasks that can not be done, delete them directly; For things that may be done in the future, put them in the dream list separately; For those who can get help, delegate directly to others; For the things to be done now, if they can be completed within 5 minutes, they will be disposed of conveniently, and for those that cannot be completed within 5 minutes, they will be put into the task list and the deadline will be clearly defined.

All the things in the debris list can be summarized into six types: don't do it, do it later, do it now, schedule it, find someone to do it and how to do it. Among them, don't do it, do it later and do it now, and they have been removed when dealing with the debris list. However, scheduling, finding someone to do it and how to do it all need some follow-up work anyway, and they will all produce new daily spare lists in the debris list. These things must be done, although not now, but the sooner they are completed, the better, otherwise they will accumulate. You need to make a list for such things, that is, a daily task list. We use the task list to guide ourselves to focus and focus during the day and get the tasks done one by one.

In addition, the author reminds us that the task list must contain effective thinking.

an effective plan must include thinking about the task execution process. For words, this "process" may be called "outline"; For a meeting, this "process" may be called "summary"; For other work tasks, this "process" may be called "step". Usually, people tend to be forced to think about the process when performing tasks, so the burden of execution is too heavy.

effective thinking is actually to put the thinking about the process in task execution from the execution end to the planning end, so as to achieve balance. This doesn't mean that you need to think about every detail in the implementation process in advance. In fact, you can't do it. You should think about the process when planning, and think about the details while doing it. Through practice, you will find that when planning, you will not be bound by the details of the task and cause anxiety. When executing, because you know the process, you can concentrate more on solving specific problems. When you think clearly about the process of the task, you can reliably estimate the time required to perform the task according to your experience.

Practice:

1. After determining the daily task list, I will pick out the three most important things and try my best to finish them.

2. After arranging the task, think about the detailed steps of completing the task in advance to achieve the balance between planning and execution. Some steps can be shared every day. For example, when writing this article, I will spend some time summarizing the contents of each chapter every day, so that I only need to build a writing framework when writing my reading experience.

Practical tip 3: How to achieve fragmentation concentration

There are many fragmentation stimuli in the environment where we live. For example, I am writing this article. Alas, I don't know how to write it well, and I have encountered difficulties ... Well, do you want to watch TV for a while? ... trying to cope with the distraction caused by this kind of thinking resistance, there are two key words "two selves" and "empty".

If you want to concentrate on yourself, you must first realize that you are distracted. It's like having two selves, one is carrying out a task, and the other is playing the role of supervisor to supervise the implementation of your own tasks. To adjust the state of the executor, the most important thing is that the supervisor can find that the executor is distracted, and the sooner he finds out, the better. If I did watch TV, I would definitely not come back to write.

once you realize that you are distracted, you should immediately jump out of your current state and do something else. this is what I call emptying, which is why I stood up many times to do other things in the process of writing this article.

It's said to do something else, but not everything is suitable. Since you are distracted, the first step is to stop being distracted. At this time, it is more suitable to do something that doesn't require much thinking. I will get up for a walk, eat something, drink a glass of water and do some simple work (such as clearing the table and wiping the floor), during which my brain is in an "empty" state, and my supervisor is pulling me back to the question just now and refocusing on the thinking of difficulties. Slowly, the solution emerged, and the words formed little by little in my head. Once I felt that I could, I sat back in front of the computer and started typing until the next time I was distracted.

Practice:

Concentration is the foundation of many things, but it should not be the reason for us to twist the bar. We are human beings, so we should allow ourselves to be distracted. If we can't concentrate, we should just let it go for a while and pull it back in time.

Practical Skill 4: Punching in is the only habit you need to cultivate

If you can only cultivate one habit, please cultivate the habit of punching in, because it is the habit of cultivating habits and the most important skill to persist in doing something. In principle, you should punch in the record as soon as the behavior happens. In order to be able to do it and stick to it, you need to do everything possible to make the recording process easy, and the tools used for recording should be portable and portable.

Practice:

1. Prepare a monthly calendar (the efficiency manual is very good) and put it in the most obvious position on the computer. If you can't help but want to watch TV series, then watch it, but after reading it, put a cross in the grid of the day; If she crosses before watching TV series and feels that she can resist watching it, she can do something else she wants to do and put a big tick on her calendar. After a period of recording, there are more and more hooks on the calendar, and punching in is the process of guiding the inner growth force.

2. punch in every day to accumulate a sense of accomplishment. Re-recording is like a wise man, having a heart-to-heart talk with himself once a day and helping me solve problems in my life from a height. Let us think deeply, sum up the past and prepare for the future.

Third, advanced skills: turn new skills into habits and deal with the future with a brand-new self

It's easier said than done, and it's harder to stick to it. According to some surveys, only 5% of patients can insist on taking medicine according to the doctor's advice for more than 6 months. Many times, we can't insist. Apart from perseverance, what's more important is that we have a wrong understanding of the process of habit cultivation.

1. To cultivate habits, the most important indicator we should pay attention to is the overall situation, not the gains and losses in a day or two. Probability is the result that we are used to cultivating. If it reaches 6% in long-term statistics, it means that we have developed habits. If it reaches 85%, it means that we are very good; If it reaches 94%, it means we must be different from ordinary people.