How to work quickly and efficiently?
6 September 2013
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Our old professors used to say: "Time is elastic". Indeed, if we give ourselves an hour to accomplish a task, we will take approximately that time to finish it. If we give ourselves forty-five minutes, we will surely succeed just as well with those three quarters of an hour…
1. Focus.
The golden rule of good and quick work is as simple as it is obvious. It lies in one magic word: concentration. Learn not to scatter yourself in multitasking. Do only one thing at a time and concentrate all your energetic attention on it. Be present to yourself, to what you are doing, at 100%.
To achieve this state of non-receptivity to the slightest movement, noise, or word around you, you must be able to turn off your phone, close notification pages, various and sundry messaging, and put yourself in a mental state of no external disturbance.
2. Respect your timings.
To avoid exceeding the time you set for each task, there is an unfailing technique: define a precise time for each action and do it while timing yourself. This will allow you to surpass yourself at all levels, a bit like when you were in math class in middle school. When you know you are being timed, you don’t drag your feet, you don’t daydream, you don’t let yourself be distracted. As surprising as it may seem, it is enough to be observed by your watch to be faster.
3. Challenge yourself.
The idea is to become more and more efficient, to constantly surpass yourself. To do this, set yourself specific challenges, beat your records from last week, last year, and make it a game, a habit. This will allow you to identify naturally time-consuming tasks and solve the problem by finding a way to either eliminate them or modify or replace them.
4. Keep only the essential.
Identify, limit, or even eliminate from your work time all tasks that do not bring you enough benefits. Eliminate, simplify, automate, outsource… Don’t clutter yourself. Work light to work fast.
5. Do the difficult before the easy.
Get in the habit of starting your workdays with "THE tedious task", the one you want to postpone, avoid, delay, the one that provokes in you violent desires to procrastinate. Your maximum energy must be channeled to accomplish this arduous task and then leave you more serene and relaxed for other actions. Going from the unpleasant complex to the pleasant easy is to finish your days satisfied (and satisfy your clients more quickly).
By imposing this discipline on yourself, you also free your mind from this work that you feared and that took up too much space in your thoughts.
6. Simplify.
Avoid complexity in all areas, whether it’s the software you use, the management of your files, the layout and organization of your workspace, or the methods you use.
7. Create your useful routine.
Since it is easier to perform a task already accomplished a thousand times than to do it for the very first time, get in the habit of putting habits in place! Turn your actions into habits by repeating them until you master them, establish a fixed regularity that will be repeated in the future.
The ReKrute.com Team
1. Focus.
The golden rule of good and quick work is as simple as it is obvious. It lies in one magic word: concentration. Learn not to scatter yourself in multitasking. Do only one thing at a time and concentrate all your energetic attention on it. Be present to yourself, to what you are doing, at 100%.
To achieve this state of non-receptivity to the slightest movement, noise, or word around you, you must be able to turn off your phone, close notification pages, various and sundry messaging, and put yourself in a mental state of no external disturbance.
2. Respect your timings.
To avoid exceeding the time you set for each task, there is an unfailing technique: define a precise time for each action and do it while timing yourself. This will allow you to surpass yourself at all levels, a bit like when you were in math class in middle school. When you know you are being timed, you don’t drag your feet, you don’t daydream, you don’t let yourself be distracted. As surprising as it may seem, it is enough to be observed by your watch to be faster.
3. Challenge yourself.
The idea is to become more and more efficient, to constantly surpass yourself. To do this, set yourself specific challenges, beat your records from last week, last year, and make it a game, a habit. This will allow you to identify naturally time-consuming tasks and solve the problem by finding a way to either eliminate them or modify or replace them.
4. Keep only the essential.
Identify, limit, or even eliminate from your work time all tasks that do not bring you enough benefits. Eliminate, simplify, automate, outsource… Don’t clutter yourself. Work light to work fast.
5. Do the difficult before the easy.
Get in the habit of starting your workdays with "THE tedious task", the one you want to postpone, avoid, delay, the one that provokes in you violent desires to procrastinate. Your maximum energy must be channeled to accomplish this arduous task and then leave you more serene and relaxed for other actions. Going from the unpleasant complex to the pleasant easy is to finish your days satisfied (and satisfy your clients more quickly).
By imposing this discipline on yourself, you also free your mind from this work that you feared and that took up too much space in your thoughts.
6. Simplify.
Avoid complexity in all areas, whether it’s the software you use, the management of your files, the layout and organization of your workspace, or the methods you use.
7. Create your useful routine.
Since it is easier to perform a task already accomplished a thousand times than to do it for the very first time, get in the habit of putting habits in place! Turn your actions into habits by repeating them until you master them, establish a fixed regularity that will be repeated in the future.
The ReKrute.com Team
