Potato working method

Potato is the homophone of To-Do List, which is also a task list. Everyone’s brain capacity is limited. If we spend a lot of time and energy on memorizing specific tasks, it will reduce and affect our efficiency. Therefore, we should drive these transactional potatoes out of the brain and eliminate them. Write them down one by one on the list, just like the shopping list we prepare when we go to the supermarket.

No matter how big or small the task is, as long as it flashes through our brain cells, it must be written down on the task list one by one and marked with a clear deadline.

The Frog Technique

"If you eat a live frog when you wake up in the morning, nothing will be difficult for you in the day!" This is Mark Twain A famous saying. Start with the most important and difficult thing every day, so pick out the frog from the pile of potatoes and eat it first.

According to the 28/20 principle, we should spend 80% of our time dealing with the 20% of important things every day. It’s important to master the skill of prioritizing your to-do tasks.

Pomodoro Technique

The Pomodoro Technique is a simple and easy time management method. It was founded by Francisco Cirillo in 1992 and is a method relative to GTD (GettingThings Done). A more micro approach to time management.

Select a to-do task, set the Pomodoro time to 25 minutes, and focus entirely on completing the task. You are not allowed to do anything unrelated to the task until the Pomodoro clock rings, and then take a short break. (about 5 minutes), and a long break needs to be arranged every 4 Pomodoros.

The Pomodoro Technique focuses on concentration during the Pomodoro period rather than task completion. The length of Pomodoro Time can be set according to each person's biological clock and habits, but do not change the length of Pomodoro Time easily.

Cooking methods

Digging potatoes - eating frogs - growing tomatoes

1. Prepare a piece of paper and a pen, and write down the tasks to be done in your mind every morning Come down.

2. Prioritize the to-do tasks, pick the most important and difficult tasks of the day from the list to deal with, and then deal with other tasks after completion.

3. Break down the to-do task into different numbers of Pomodoros. During the 25-minute Pomodoro, focus on the task. Make a mark for each completed Pomodoro, and then take a short break before investing. The next Pomodoro, and so on.

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34 gold coins time management method

This is the popular variety show "Qi Pa Shuo" "The time management method highly recommended by Teacher Aili in "The principle is very simple: get up at 7 o'clock in the morning, go to bed at 12 o'clock in the evening, 17 waking hours, divided into half-hours, divide the time into 34 blocks, there are 34 nuggets of gold coins.

Record and categorize these spent gold coins every day:

The first category is entertainment time, which is to play efficiently and guilt-free, using blue to mark.

The second category is rest time, which includes sleeping time, time to eat alone, and time on the way to and from get off work, which are marked in green.

The third category is forced work time. Things and tasks that you don’t want to do, but have to do, you can mark as forced work time and mark it in orange.

The fourth category is efficient working time, including efficient working, reading, and studying. Any time that can produce value is marked here and marked in yellow.

The fifth category is the most terrible procrastination, doing meaningless things, such as giving yourself a like in the circle of friends, sleeping in bed for a long time in the morning, and marking it with red.

Conduct a time review once a week. You can clearly see how your time coins are spent, and then constantly reflect and optimize. Don't underestimate this time recording method. When you insist on taking records seriously every day, you will slowly start to feel sorry for the gold coins you have wasted, so you can better self-discipline and manage time.

The above are all time management techniques, but the most important thing about time management is the mental method, which is to maintain efficiency, efficiency, and efficiency.

The result of high efficiency is to save time, so what does saving time mean? It means you have more time at your disposal to do more things, see more scenery, and meet more people.

In ancient times, it took ten days and a half to ride from Chang'an to Yangzhou, but now it only takes a few hours.

When you experience more things in your life, go to more places, and meet more people than others, from the perspective of Einstein's Theory of Relativity, your life will be longer than others.

Therefore, time management is the secret to extending life!

If you find paper records too troublesome, you can use mobile APP software to manage your time.

Recommended software: Pomodoro, Pomodoro Technique, Pomodoro, 34Coins, Time Block, etc.