Life 101: Accomplish More in Less Time

I admire those people that have many things in their hand and yet they just have the time and energy to accomplish them. While many of us complain that they simply don't have time, everyone is entitled to the same 24 hours. It's just a matter of how you prioritize and make the best use of time.


So in this Life 101, I shall present to you some basic time saving skills that will help you cut some corners with time :)

• Learn to prioritize

Basically, you have to know what are the more critical things that you need to accomplish. It may seem that you have many on your plate but it doesn't mean you have to finish accomplishing all in one go. By prioritizing, you will also learn to do better in the tasks that you have set yourself to do. And don't beat yourself up if you can't finish it. There is always the next day. If it is more urgent, perhaps you can spend more time on it than the rest, especially if there is a tight deadline to it.

• Spend a few minutes before you sleep or after you wake up to do up a plan.

Half the battle is won if you know what you are going to do for at least the rest of the day. It cuts time wastage as you basically know what you have to accomplish and make you more focused so that you don't get easily distracted as your mind wanders what the heck you are going to do next.

• Plan your actions

You have no idea how much time you can save if you have a mental note out of what you plan to do in your daily life. For example, if I have a few things to do after work, I will make a mental note of what I need to do and how to go about doing it. If I need to post out letters, withdraw money and do grocery shopping later, I will take note of where to walk so I can go to the post box, followed by the bank and supermarket in one single route. I will also make a mental note of what are the things I need to buy so that I will more or less just zoom by the aisles and just grab and go instead of wasting time looking at things not on my 'things to buy' list.

• Just do it

It's really easy to procrastinate especially if you just feel lazy about doing it. The only way to beat this, is basically to just do it. Once you get the hang of it after like 10-15 minutes, you basically just forget how long it takes for you to even do the first step.

• Multi-task at least two things at the same time

Our brain may not have the capacity to do many things at the same time but we can still multi task. For example, while waiting for a program to download, you can spend the waiting time doing something useful like reading a book that you have long wanting to read or doing the next task on your 'to do'list. At least if you have moved on to that task, you have started a bit on it and you don't waste further time starting from the beginning.


There are a lot of tips on the net that you can easily pick up but these are the basic ones. To me, it is always best to write down your plan instead of just making a mental to do list. At least you can see for yourself what you have done or need to do.


Good Luck!


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