What are your best time hacks? I need some suggestions..

Hi Fellow Aussie

I could write a lot on this, in fact I have. But my three top time-hacks are:

1. Be realistic. You're in this business to make money but also presumably for lifestyle. If you are going to overload yourself you may as well be working for someone else. You may be an awesome marketer but you aren't superhuman.

2. Keep your mind in the game (self-talk is key to maintaining productivity and so actually is sleep)

3. Create a realistic bridge of strategies from where you are now to your goals that aligns with how you work best, and then stick to it consistently.

Good luck

Deb

Hi AC

Being mindful throughout much of your day did wonders for my time management.

Try meditating for 5 minutes daily. Breathe deeply throughout the day. Relax. Slow down. Calm down.

I made MUCH better use of my time when I was present, with my mind being in the here and now versus being minutes or years in the future or past

Ryan

Through the power of a single hypnotic induction, you can hack into time, alter events and bend the odds in your favor. How?

I just told you how. Just dig deeper.

Have your conscious mind ready while you sleep, coordinated by key commands and empower your way through the matrix. You've just...hacked time.

Hey - I know what you mean!!

Time efficiency can be the great equalizer and we must be very aware of how use our 86,400 seconds each day!

I use a one page organizer to keep my totally on track and focused on the tasks that must be done today. Also, it's critical to your sleep pasterns that you fill it out the night before. This will allow your mind to rest, knowing you already have your next planned.

You won't have to be worrying about it any longer.

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do this, but here's a link to get the one page organizer free:
Tony Neumeyer - Get My Free Daily Organizer

You need to leave an email, but hey, you can instantly opt-out if you like. There's also a video link in the email you receive that describes how to use it.

Anyway, I hope I don't get in trouble - just trying to help you out.

Tony

I avoid multi-tasking as much as possible. When I multi-task, yes I'm able to start a lot of things but I couldn't finish most of them. I find that it's better to focus on finishing one task as fast as a I can because it allows me to finish more tasks in a day compared to multitasking.

You could try separating the time of planning and time of execution. Never change the plan and ask yourself if you are doing good while you are in the execution mode.

It is explained here:

In my case it helped me more in terms of motivation - I was getting frustrated since I couldn't see my progress and had a feeling that everything was going to slow. When I became more motivated I also became more effective I started to work faster and got more time for myself.


I hope it can help you a bit

Here are some of my hacks:
1. Making sure I keep the distractions away. This includes family, friends, and relatives.
2. Doing work in small bursts of utmost concentration and taking regular breaks in between.
3. While writing, I use applications that allow distraction-free work. No email notifications.
4. I also keep my cell phone away.

On the lighter side, whenever I meet my daily goals - the night sleeps get way more relaxing

Thanks

Time management can be such a pain in the ass, I have always been a distracted person, I have a hard time focusing for doing my jobs and it really becomes an obstacle sometimes.

Lately, Ive been able to make some improvements in this area (baby steps), by using a technique called the Pomodoro techniques. This techniques works by dividing your job into 20 or 25 minutes blocks, with 5 minutes breaks after each block. After 4 blocks, you get a longer break for clearing your mind.

The trick is that during those work blocks, you cant do anything else besides from working, you have to turn off your phones, keep your email closed, and make sure no distractions will came in the way. It may sound simple, but for distracted minds like mine, it actually helps, because you have to focus during the work blocks until you get to the breaks, its also very helpful for achieving milestones with more efficiency, if I know I have to write something down and I only have two blocks of 25 minutes to do it, im sure I will.

There are a loot of tools and apps out there that can be used for tracking your time under the Pomodoro rules, im currently using https://tomato-timer.com, which is great and very easy to use. If you put Pomodoro in the IOS or Android market, you will also find a lot of apps designed for the same thing.

I think the biggest thing I've learned which has helped me to be more productive is setting daily deadlines. What I mean is that everything that I am working on that day I like to put a deadline on it. Doing this adds some pressure and makes me work more to get it done within the allotted time.

Focus is another big part. You'll have to focus on one thing at a time. It makes no sense for you to be jumping from one thing to the next thing to the next. Focus on what you need to get done in the specific project that you are working on.

The next thing is setting smaller goals within your bigger ones. This is good because it gives you motivation to keep pushing and getting things done. Every time you hit a small goal you get a little boost on the inside. Before you know it you'll have your goals accomplished and you'll be feeling good about yourself.

Sleep is another hack that's important. In our modern "hustle hard" world, we tend to think that the more we go without sleep the more we'll get done. Sure that might be the case sometimes but most of the time the work that you are doing might not be up to the standard that you could if you just got enough rest. Rest is very important. If you know that you're feeling tired then take some time and get some rest.

Overall you just need to focus, get enough rest, keep your head down and hustle hard. I know you might not like waking up early and I'm definitely with you on that one but I do it every morning. It's just that I rather sacrifice comfort to live my dream then be comfortable and mediocre.

Stay focused and block all things that you procrastinate with.

Maybe try to create some daily goals list? Don't make it too long, it should be realistic and keep you away from doing too many things at the same time. Also, set it within time limits. Don't work too much, because it will be effective only for short amount of time. After a while it will make you more distracted and tired and way less productive. Also time blocks, that were already mentioned, are really helpful. I usually set it for 25min work and 5min rest. After adjusting to this work mode I got way more productive.

Besides being realistic about what I can truly take on and be effective with. I use the following combination:

Use a combination of Eisenhower's Principle and the Johari Square or Window. The way to do this is:

1. Fill a piece of paper by drawing a large square. Divide it in half with a vertical and horizontal line cutting it in half each way. You will then have a window or square within the large square you 1st drew.

2. Label each square with these 4 names:
-important and urgent
-important but not urgent
-not important but urgent
-not important not urgent

Enter your activities for the next day into the square that fits its status.

Do this every day. Use the 80/20 Principle next. 80% of your time should be spent on the items in the important and urgent quadrant of the square. 20% should be alotted to the other 3 with very little if any to the not important not urgent quadrant.

Keep fine-tuning this, and you will find that your productivity increases as you fine-tune the use of your time more and more on what is relevant. Micro-manage this and you will get a huge payoff.

Also over time you will find yourself letting go of some things because you come to clearly see what time-wasters they are.

The process will become more and more second-nature to you.

Enjoy your extra time!

Increase your nutrition. Use a micro nutritional powder to keep yourself stronger. you'll be more focused and efficient when your working and you'll also get greater rest with far less anxiety. Vitamineral Greens is a good one to start with. Blessings to you!