Time Management - whats your strategy?

ardley216

ardley216

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So everyday I seem to have a 100,000 things to do and I manage to do half.. but still have 100,000 things to do by the end of the day.

I use a notepad and pen plus as much determination not to be distracted from work. I get up early to do as much work before I get tired by the end of the day.

other than that I don't have any strategies..

So what about you guys? What do you do that helps you make the most of your awake time?
 
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Well, as a web designer, I normally have a "First come first serve" policy. I just put on some Armin van Buuren, and just let the hours fly by.
 
Optimise your work hours instead of working +12h/day
 
I read somewhere that doing the tasks that take the most time are best done first. (Lifehacker I think)


That's all I have for now.
 
Get a whiteboard and start treating things like a business, write down what you need to do and and start getting things done one step at a time.
 
Stop posting "how to manage time" and I believe you will complete at least 1 more minor task :)
 
I use wife and family to outsource the most of the tasks.
Here, you can measure how productive your time is: rescuetime.com (don't take it too seriously)
 
If motivation to work is not an issue, then why don't you hire a VA to do the smaller tasks?

Also try incorporating the kaban strategy to your time management. It has increased my productivity as of late.
 
I write out my day every night. Giving myself 30 minutes each day to write my next.
Everything on a calendar and include little notes in my notepad for me to remind myself what I want to complete.
 
I ignore my list of things that I need to do, and instead go to week-long time management seminars. :)
True story.

EDIT: I think the reason I never clear through my to-do is not because I have poor time management skills, but instead because I don't actually want to clear through my to-do. Doing so would mean that I'm living a task-based life, and I have a deeply held view that if I'm living a task-based life, I've failed. (Not saying my view is 'the right one' - just saying, that's the view that drives me).
 
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Good tips there :)

Yeah I do run my stuff like a proper business, I have an office in London, I'm just trying to work out whether it would be good to employ someone to do all the little tasks that take up 50% of my time. lol
 
ardley216 said:
I'm just trying to work out whether it would be good to employ someone to do all the little tasks that take up 50% of my time. lol
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Yes - but do it right. It's a move fraught with danger - if you hire the wrong person you'll just feel more burdened than you did before... be fast to fire them if it doesn't 'feel' right in the first few days.
 
Hey,

Kinda depends on how small/big the projects are. If I'm working on a project where I have 3+ people in it, I usually use Scrum (OntimeScrum) to do the project planning etc.

If I'm only working alone on a project, I create tasklists with simpleology and I have a rudimentary project planning pinboard, pretty similar to this:

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It kinda serves like a visual reminder. Also, every time I start a task I put it on the "In progress" column. That seems to create psychological pressure to actually work on it, because I REALLY don't want to have anything under the "In Progress" column at the end of the day. It has to arrive at "Complete". :D

warm regards,
neocortx
 
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