Practical Post About Time Management - 5 Ways to Save Time

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Time is the most precious resource we all have at our disposal and we receive this daily for 24 hours. Have you ever wondered how it's already late during the day or how time flies that it's like yesterday we spent New Year's Eve with family and friends and it's as if in a moment we're already in the middle of the summer?

It is said that there are no secrets that time does not reveal. That is why it is very important to be aware and to act in the direction of good time management. There is no time to lose, to be lazy, to procrastinate in vain because what you can do today must not be left for tomorrow.

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If you run out of money then you have no money, but if you run out of time then you have lost a part of your life. Given these aspects, I thought I would approach time management for you and how we can better organize ourselves so that we become more productive, more efficient, and ultimately succeed in making the best use of this primary resource for all of us.

I will also offer you some simple and effective methods for managing time that, and whether you apply them in your personal life or apply them in your professional life, they will help you become better and better at this.

First of all, I would like to draw your attention to how important it is to be aware of the passage of time and I thought of an example. If you've ever been to a casino, have you noticed that there are no wall clocks, either classic or digital? Have you ever wondered why? Because they don't want you to know how time passes so you can stay there as long as possible and obviously spend as much as possible, usually until your pocket is empty.

I'm not a casino player, but I understood one thing, very important: you have to be very aware of the passage of time. It is the golden rule in time management. It is to your advantage to know how time passes, so take action and put a clock in every room you sit in, at the office, bigger or smaller, digital or not, it doesn't matter, but you have to somehow always have in front of the eyes an instrument for measuring time.

Time is not waiting for anyone and time is never late.
Obviously, there are many methods for time management, but precisely because there are many and because I want you to really get added value in your life, I have chosen 5 simple and very effective methods that I use and recommend to save time.

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1. Time Spent at Meetings

Whether we are talking about business meetings or meetings with friends, it is necessary to minimize the time allotted. Some meetings end exactly as they began, this is the cruel truth. And what did you gain then?

Corporations usually have a very unproductive habit, which is to have a lot of meetings and very often. People have become somewhat accustomed because it is a place where they find their escape as if hiding from something. In fact, the only thing that is certain is that the time spent in such meetings can no longer be recovered.

If you are caught in such a place, try not to attend such meetings, if you can obviously, and if you are dealing with people who are always in meetings, avoid them. You're wasting both time and energy.
I'm also talking about meetings that don't take place at the office but at the restaurant or a cafe. These are time-consuming because most of the time, even if you are punctual, the other person will be late. If the meeting took place at the office, you could take care of something until the other person arrived. Here is a firm recommendation: if you go on a date with such a person, take some work with you. It may take some time for the other person to reach your meeting.

2. Use the List

What list? The list of things to do. It is valid every day. You just can't remember everything you have to do all the time, so you need to make lists and, of course, use them. It is a simple and very effective tool. You can use a normal planner, a digital one, or digital memos on your smartphone.

What will you note there? Absolutely everything you have to do. The people you need to call, the people you need to meet, the places you need to go, time for dinner, family, reading, writing, friends, meditation, or whatever else you do in a day. It would be good to categorize the things you have to do because this way you can prioritize them better and thus your program will be a cursive one, and the time will be useful.

Another great advantage of using lists is that it frees your mind, and your mind is clearer and clearer and you can use it at a high level of concentration for what you have to do. It may be awkward at first, but it doesn't take you more than 10 minutes to make a list and you will see that once you get used to it you will consider this habit really liberating.

3. Block Your Time

Here I mean actually taking your time in an organized way. A very simple and very common example, but as simple and common as it is to schedule a vacation. You put in your calendar that between August 3, 2015 and August 20, 2015 you are on vacation with your family, gone to visit Spain, Italy and France. You already buy your plane tickets and you can already start listing what you need.

You will say that I urge you to plan your life. Well, partly yes, but that's because it's your life and because I care about you and I want you to live it as well as possible. The advantages of scheduling are multiple because you know the period clearly, you get plane tickets in time, you go shopping in time, you leave almost nothing on the last hundred meters. Thus everything is more efficient, organized, optimized, and in the end, it will result in increased efficiency in terms of the total cost.

Here we are practically talking about habits.

By blocking time for activities that are important to you and that create added value for you, you prevent a very important aspect: for an activity that is top for you to be accomplished, without your time being used for the priorities of others.

4. Take Advantage of The Waiting Time

Most of us who walk through the urban jungle are caught in traffic or public transportation. The advancement of technology has allowed us in recent years to be a few clicks away or a few taps on the touchscreens of mobile phones from many things that we need.

If you are still driving and the traffic is heavy, it would be advisable to listen to audio material that interests you. Insert a cd, DVD, or memory stick. Spending time listening to commercial radio is not valuable to you.

If you are in the middle of public transport, then it is very easy to put your headphones on and start an audio material of interest to you, whether we are talking about motivational materials or a seminar on medical topics, for example, if you are a doctor.

Have you ever thought about this wasted time otherwise? Maybe 5 minutes here, 10 minutes there, today, tomorrow, and so on. If you draw the line, you may lose important time in this way. You just have to be more careful and aware so that you can take advantage of waiting times.

5. Punctuality

I'm always on time when I go to meetings and I always get there a little earlier.

The fact that I set my schedule and do not deviate from it allows me to carry out all the activities I have to do that day. Even when I meet a friend for coffee for relaxation and socializing and establish that we see each other in a certain place at 19.00, I am there because first of all I respect myself and my time, as I also respect my friend's time.

I don't know if it would make sense to continue what punctuality means and why we should practice it at the highest level every day. But just think about what it would be like to call an ambulance to announce a heart attack, and have people there say they arrive in 3 minutes and actually arrive in seven minutes? Any delay can be fatal! The same goes for business or personal life, even if you don't realize it now.

As a time management tool, and one that is in your absolute control, is discipline. You have to be disciplined and if you make a list of things you have to do for tomorrow then you deal with it until you're done. Then you can do other activities. You said that from tomorrow you will start the diet, then you will have to discipline yourself and do exactly that because procrastination is the thief of time.

I wrote this article for you so that you can use your time effectively, awaken the consciousness in you, and realize that only with self-discipline you can implement healthy habits in your life and thus get to manage time getting better.

With care,
@regenerette

💙💚❤️💗💜💖 For @galenkp to whom I have promised to write about this and to all those who managed to read it until the end: Thank you!

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What a great post and really good tips to save time also! I'm a huge supporter of time-blocking myself. It actually works. I run off an ideal fortnight schedule and the aim is to hit the mark as often as possible, I'd say 80% of the time is a bit what I get. Sure, there's times when the scheduled activities can't/don't happen to plan but it keeps me very productive.

Basically I have time blocked out for specific things and I guard that time, isolate it, and make sure there's secondary tasks if the primary is completed, not necessary or derailed for some reason. I even have tertiary tasks on some occasions. It means high-productivity. (I mean at work here).

Great post for sure; One all should read. You should use the Self Improvement community for stuff like this.

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Thank you for the comment and for recommending me the Self Improvement community.

Funny fact: when I started my last relationship, I've suggested that we both use a planner for our common activities. I think that was too much for our start :))

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You're welcome, I sent the post to curangel for some vote-love too.

Yeah, scheduled relationship-plannijg might be a bit much. How did it work out?

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We have 7 years now of being together.
Still trying to align our schedules though we're living together now.
It's a good thing that we both care too much about the individual priorities and energy that we have so when we meet in common activities, we are already satisfied by what we have accomplished individually. Yet, sometimes, we tend to put too much effort into our personal goals...I don't know. I need more attention than I get sometimes :) There! #fulldisclosure #declass :))

Thank you for the vote-love.
I have to notify my friend @maylena that we both are late for our weekend engagement in your challenge. I'm not too much into challenges, but your topics are intriguing and I cannot help. She is lazy a bit when it comes to writing but I tend to push her :))

Hugggggs!

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Seems like it is working out.

Also, the #weekend-engagement topic was for you this week. You suggested it.

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Then when I wake up, I shall ride the topic if it's not too late!

I will be posting more practical tips about time management using NLP strategies in the future.

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It won't be too late...You have until late Sunday night your time.

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Thank you!

I'll reflect on this in the morning for a bit and just let myself write freely.

Huggggggs!

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Personally, I used to be very bad at managing my time. It sucked and put me in trouble very often but I couldn't seem to help it. That's changed as soon as I started waking up early in the morning, it really helps. From the past week, my routine is screwed up once again, will go back on track from Monday onwards.

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I might change some things to my routine also, soon. already noted the changes in my planner so I am starting soon.

Thank you for your answer, @finguru


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You nailed it in the first sentence! Reminds me of the essence of a movie squeezed in one sentence: "Time is the single most precious commodity in the universe" by Kalique Abrasax from the movie "Jupiter Ascending".


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I'll note this one and look for it. Thank you for the recommendation and I'm glad to find you in POB!


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What a useful list and if i could highlight one, it would be blocking time. Once i started doing that, there were less days that i felt were wasted or that i didn't achieve what i wanted to.


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I am SO glad you find it useful!
Blocking time always felt like a loss for me, so I found practical things to do. It was so hard for me to learn meditation or mindfulness, because of this. But I understand there needs to be an equilibrium in all. Thank you for reading and for your comment. It makes me happy.


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@regenerette there is saying that "time is money"so yeah good time management is necessary in our lives and seeing such an informative posts like yours makes one excited...thanks for sharing ...


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Awesome as always!!!
For the first time in my life I'm really taking the time to organize my time. In the past I was more like "Time is an illusion", but now that I have responsibilities with others, I can't be like that anymore.

I'll take to heart numbers 2 and 3, I think they will help me a lot! Number 1 I try as much as I can and numbers 4 and 5 I've already implemented very well in my opinion.

Thanks sooooo much for sharing this good info! And kudos on the last pic, very DMTlike

Big Hug!


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Thank you for reading and I am glad that you find it useful!

Yes the responsibilities that need our presence are often our blessings ;)

I am sending you a big hug!


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Lots of good information here. Ill put to use the blocking strategy today as that will maintain limits to people trying to waste my time. Thank you.

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@an-man, I was just looking at your posts earlier and I was about to write to one of them: When will you be posting again? Hehe!

It can only make me satisfied that you and others get the practical things out of this content. May it be useful to you!


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Ill be posting in a few minutes...i send the link.
Yes you have some good posts there. ill have a longer read through after i finish this block of time on Hive. :-)

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Here is the new link to the the new post....perhaps not designed for everyone...but it is Monday
a Stitch in time saves Nine..... @an-man/walnuts-husk-wool-dying
On to the next block of things to do today. Lets be friends.

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I like the walnuts and the wool in that post. I gathered about 2kg last autumn and made a tincture from the leaves also.


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The wool came to a very nice complex colour, Thanks. Oh yes, what did this tincture do? Did you eat the nuts? Did you find anything useful to do with the shell? Was it the leaves of the walnut or the skin over the rock?

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I made it for psoriasis...
The nuts still wait to be eaten as I had some more besides the ones picked by me.
The shell went into the 5L jar with the leaves of the walnut along with a strong fruit booze , natural alcohol.
I've sent a bottle of tincture to my mother who is skeptical about these things and she said it helped her with an open wound very fast. It was the first time I did any tincture...:) It's very expensive in the shops here so I wanted to do my own.

I am so glad you asked.


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I am so glad i asked. I have a friend who suffers with psoriasis. Thanks you for sharing now i can use that knowledge and help a friend. So good to know, as even here medications are very expensive for things we can make from nature. Ill have to do some research and try. You should copy this information you shared onto the walnut post i made so that others can see it and credit you for helping them. Thanks so much for sharing and making good post.

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@an-man, I can give a free life-time entry to one of my courses on treating Psorasis naturally. It includes everything I have done to reduce a weeping erythrodermic psoriasis from 80% covering my body to none at that point. I don't want to insert the link here, but just give me your Twitter or anything and I shall send you his free entry. Consider it as a gift from me to you so you can offer it to him.


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Oh wow I would let my friend know and they can get in contact with you if they think that would be of benefit to them. The is very cool to hear that you have had such good healing success in treating somethings that can be so painful. Thanks so much for the offer, Ill pass the message along.

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I have 2 FB groups founded years ago where I also help people. I get no money out of that there. With more than 15k following those posts.

I have been shilling in Twitter for the last hour about $Hive! #Hive

Send my Twitter to your friend and he can contact me anytime. I will help him with everything that worked for me.

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