Hello.
Long time I have not been
here.
For this time I received
a good and short video about 3 Tips to plan your workday.
The tips looks pretty
obvious and simple, but I believe the most part of people does not apply them
on their routines.
I found them useful and
inspirational, for even a technical person or any other professional.
Below I talk about my
understanding and usability of them. I do suggest you take your own
conclusions too.
The first one consists in
break your activity in short tasks and do schedule of them on your calendar.
That sounds very good to
me, because usually I procrastinate activities that require long time of work
or deep concentration, for some time more inspired. Usually that time does
not happen before the target date be meet. o_O
So, if we break the
complicated and long activities in shorter tasks, it is more motivational and
easier to find free time on routine to go forward with the tasks.
The second tip is about
start every day with 15 minutes of planning. It is reinforced in every time
save program, but usually we do forget to take care of this. When we start the
day doing a preview about what will be the day, and leaving some free time to
tasks unpredictable (tell me who nowadays can manager your whole day without
any external interference?), that makes much more effective follow the
schedules and have tasks accomplished in the expected time.
That is true it can be a
little boring initially follow a strict plan the whole day, but at the end of
the day when we found that all tasks needed were done, or at least 75% of them,
we have a better happy hour!
And finally, I would say
this is the more effective tip to have a good and productive day: Measure
progress of the day before. Doing this, you can identify if you will need more time
than you programed for some tasks, but, fortunately, you can find that you have
accomplished some other tasks in much less time than expected.
That allows you verify
what is still pending, the reason why it is pending and help you to identify
clearly where are you using your time.
Information means power
nowadays, and when you do have information about what you are doing with your
time, you acquire the important power of fix the gaps on your performance and
be more productive and assertive.
Below you can see the
video (that is short, to save your time!) with its own explanation about the above
points.
I hope you have enjoyed it and that can do some help on your professional (why not personal too ?) routine :)
Kindly
Juliana Eneas
