How to gain 8 hours per week?
16 July 2013
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To save time, it is unnecessary to go faster. A little organization and a few clever tricks are enough.
1. Plan your day
Knowing what you are going to do, or even how and with whom you are going to do it, is a precious time saver. Learn to organize, anticipate, detail your day. By drawing its axes, its contours, you will master it much better.
2. Take your time.
Learn (or re-learn) to be slow to do better, to do more in depth: avoid any form of absolute reactivity to keep a cool head, clear ideas, to be in reflection and therefore ready for the right action.
3. Don't strive for perfection.
By wanting to do too well, very often, you do nothing, you exhaust yourself, you drain your energy to no longer be normally productive, in the end. Do what is necessary without trying to achieve high quality for everything. Few things require this state of mind. Take it easy.
3. Set specific times for reading (emails).
We have often said it: reading and replying to emails more than three to four times a day is a significant waste of time. In addition, it would be good for everyone to avoid putting the whole team in copy, with each reply. One decision-maker per department is more than enough. Also remember to use a clear, concise and explicit title in the Subject line.
4. Group tasks together
At home, downstairs, in front of the elevator, you instinctively group everything together. Less so at the office. Yet you should. Rather than going back and forth, it is much better to work by "similar tasks" within a perfectly defined time slot. To be efficient, you must be able to be monochromatic during sequences (of one or two hours) before moving on to another task. It is good to identify and know the famous time slots where your efficiency is maximal. For most people, these are between 9:30 am and 11:30 am and between 3:30 pm and 5:30 pm.
5. Know how to give yourself breaks.
It is impossible to be efficient for eight hours a day. Learn to give yourself moments of regeneration, to take breaks when you feel that your concentration is waning. Stopping every hour and a half seems a good rhythm, either a long 15-minute break, or several short 5- to 6-minute breaks behind the computer per half-day.
What does a break mean? A break is a moment of deep relaxation (closing your eyes is even better), of recharging the body and mind.
Article written by The ReKrute.com Team
1. Plan your day
Knowing what you are going to do, or even how and with whom you are going to do it, is a precious time saver. Learn to organize, anticipate, detail your day. By drawing its axes, its contours, you will master it much better.
2. Take your time.
Learn (or re-learn) to be slow to do better, to do more in depth: avoid any form of absolute reactivity to keep a cool head, clear ideas, to be in reflection and therefore ready for the right action.
3. Don't strive for perfection.
By wanting to do too well, very often, you do nothing, you exhaust yourself, you drain your energy to no longer be normally productive, in the end. Do what is necessary without trying to achieve high quality for everything. Few things require this state of mind. Take it easy.
3. Set specific times for reading (emails).
We have often said it: reading and replying to emails more than three to four times a day is a significant waste of time. In addition, it would be good for everyone to avoid putting the whole team in copy, with each reply. One decision-maker per department is more than enough. Also remember to use a clear, concise and explicit title in the Subject line.
4. Group tasks together
At home, downstairs, in front of the elevator, you instinctively group everything together. Less so at the office. Yet you should. Rather than going back and forth, it is much better to work by "similar tasks" within a perfectly defined time slot. To be efficient, you must be able to be monochromatic during sequences (of one or two hours) before moving on to another task. It is good to identify and know the famous time slots where your efficiency is maximal. For most people, these are between 9:30 am and 11:30 am and between 3:30 pm and 5:30 pm.
5. Know how to give yourself breaks.
It is impossible to be efficient for eight hours a day. Learn to give yourself moments of regeneration, to take breaks when you feel that your concentration is waning. Stopping every hour and a half seems a good rhythm, either a long 15-minute break, or several short 5- to 6-minute breaks behind the computer per half-day.
What does a break mean? A break is a moment of deep relaxation (closing your eyes is even better), of recharging the body and mind.
Article written by The ReKrute.com Team
