Time Management Secrets for Women

It is impossible to turn back the clock, but you can control it completely. There is time management for this. There are many methods that have been developed in order to be in time to do everything on time. However, some of them do not work when it comes to women. And it is not a matter of ladies' logic, supposedly different from men's. It's just that the fair sex has its own characteristics, and in matters of managing personal time, including.

"Drama circle, circle on the photo, and I still want to sing." Such a plan can very easily be implemented by any woman in her childhood, and here with age there are a lot of barriers. Firstly, something similar to you may already be declared by your own child, and have to redraw your schedule, so as not to "bury" the talent of his beloved child in the ground. And these calls from kindergarten - pick up Misha / Masha, she has a temperature! Is it possible to put this in the schedule?

And when the mother-in-law promised to pick up the child from school and then lingered in the country and did not have time, Do not spend the night in a kindergarten! The mother-in-law is all right, she doesn’t even know such a word “time management”, she has only tomatoes on her mind (not to be confused with the popular method in “time management”, based on the use of a kitchen timer in the form of a tomato, about this a little later), and what should we do with our preplanned activities?

And if the manicure can still be rescheduled, what to do with the business meeting that you scheduled at the beginning of the week?

But there are also life-facilitating and perhaps peculiar only to a woman abilities - do several things at once. It only occurs to her while brushing her teeth to wash the sink, and then still wipe the bathroom mirror. And this feminine feature should help save time.

But how to manage to do everything both at home and at work, and also leave an hour or two for your beloved - you should talk about this in more detail.

Perhaps there is no special secret in planning time for working girls. The basic principles still work regardless of gender. But there are still a number of differences between women's time management and men's time management.

Life is richer than plans, but still you need to try to structure it at least a little. Make a to-do list for the year, month, week, day. The latter is recommended to be done the night before. And do not leave it in your light head, but set out on paper or create a plan file on a computer. Today, there are special mobile glider applications.

Try to follow a pre-determined schedule, do not leave for tomorrow what you can do today.

Determine what is really important for you and what can be left for later or done if extra time is left (of those 20 percent, for example). If your list has an item that wanders from plan to plan, then either get ready and do it already, or delete it completely as unnecessary.

Do not be afraid to ask for help. You do not shift your responsibility to others. You share an excessive burden with them. Well yours will not break husband, if he takes out the trash or buys bread. Yes and daughter is already big enough to wash the dishes by yourself.

Yes, and you finally stop feeling like a servant in your own home. By the way, your colleague will probably even be pleased with your request. After all, you are so charming and attractive.

Do not forget that in addition to the right to work, you still have the right to rest. Do not ignore it. During the holidays, relax, and do not do daily house cleaning and cooking, at the weekend, after the pan with cabbage soup is ready, go for a walk to the museum, a concert hall, a theater, or at least stop by to visit a friend.

Do you want to go nowhere? Watch your favorite movie, read a book. Feel free to place the mop at this time.

However, all of the above is not enough to not just keep up with everything, but not to get tired. The following tricks will help you prepare a report for investors, create homeliness, be a good mom, wife and daughter - to do everything at the same time with minimal energy consumption.

This effective technique was developed by an Italian young man named Francesco Cirillo at the end of the 80s of the last century. As a student then, the young man caught himself thinking that he was wasting time for other purposes.

It seems to be working on notes, but it’s of little use. Then he made it a rule to devote a certain time to the work, namely 25 minutes. As a stopwatch, he served as a regular kitchen timer in the form of a tomato. Hence the name of the technique.

Now by the way there are many applications and computer programs helping to use this method. So you don’t need to go to the store for a kitchen timer.

A quarter of an hour - is it a lot or a little? As practice shows, not that much, but enough to change your life. What do we usually run out of time for? Pread your favorite book, go in for sports, talk with children.

So the “rule of 15 minutes” says - give them to what your hands never reach. For example, dedicate exactly 15 minutes a day to reading, and no “well, moms.” Or study English - it’s not much 15 minutes, but imagine how much you learn or read in a month, and in a year!

A slightly more complicated method to use, which requires utmost honesty.

To do this, we divide the cases into 4 groups:

• urgent and at the same time important;
• urgent, but absolutely not important;
• important but not urgent at all;
• not urgent and not important.

It’s not hard to guess in this way we cut off everything that is unnecessary and concentrate only on what really needs to be done.

No one is safe from mistakes in planning time.

• You think that being in touch is always right. Not at all. At least sometimes go "into yourself." The world will not stop in your absence. Of course, before you “disconnect”, you need to “attach” children. Otherwise, you can be left to your own devices. Stay alone with yourself for at least a few minutes a day.
• You think that on your table "everything is at hand." How many minutes did you spend yesterday finding a stapler? Put things in order on the desktop, as well as in the closet and shelves in the kitchen. You’ll even be surprised how much the next time you save time looking for the right one.
• Do not confuse business and personal. Combining cooking with your child’s homework is certainly possible. But when you salt the fish, forget about the report that you need to take at work tomorrow. It is highly likely that the fish is too salted. Or, conversely, drop products on securities. Do not try to catch it all at once. Otherwise, “burn” not at work, but at home.

• If possible, come to the office earlier. Not to “drive the gulls” with colleagues. As they say, we’ll sit earlier, we’ll get up earlier (what if the mother-in-law lingers on her tomato beds?).
• Make the workflow fun. For example, arrange competitions, who will do faster or better. No competitive peers? Fight yourself. Set new office records.
• If it seems to you that the task set for you is too complicated, divide it into several parts. Even if not immediately, but in stages you will reach your goal.
• Learn to say no. You are not obliged to stay at work, even if you are very asked about it, and to do the work for Kolya too. Well, unless you get paid extra for that, of course. Otherwise, your time should not be spent on solving other people's problems. Do you have few worries?
• In the evening, not only make a plan for the next day, but also summarize the results of the outgoing. If something doesn’t work, try to understand why and do some work on the bugs.
• Have on hand a list for a "rainy day", the very one when no thoughts come to mind and everything falls out of hand. Occupy yourself with something that is not particularly responsible and does not require concentration. Dismantle the cabinet already with old dishes, for example.
• In times of downtime (on the train, at the airport, in the queue at the clinic), stop playing solitaire games. Read a book, learn a couple of new phrases in English, check out the competitors' new promotional offer. Do not waste time.
• There is still a limit to perfection; there is no need to arrange an action from a trip to the store similar to visiting the Bolshoi Theater. You should not spend all your strength on minor matters. Not necessarily everything should be "perfect." Sometimes "and so it will" is quite acceptable. And spend the rest of the time on a perfect hairstyle, manicure, massage, and here you are - perfection itself.

To always be full of energy and strength, follow the rule known under code number 10-3-2-1-0.

Ten - the number of hours before bedtime, 3 - time before bedtime which must be carried out without food and alcohol, 2 - hours of a relaxed state before bedtime, 1 - rush hour at bedtime when they turn off the TV, tablet, computer.

And finally 0 - the number of clicks on the “OFF” button of your alarm clock. Good morning. Great things await us!