{"id":306,"date":"2023-10-02T10:50:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T10:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech-musing.com\/?p=306"},"modified":"2023-10-02T10:50:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T10:50:15","slug":"time-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tech-musing.com\/2023\/10\/02\/time-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Time management"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"677\" height=\"677\" src=\"https:\/\/18.132.103.31\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tech-musing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image.png 677w, https:\/\/tech-musing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/tech-musing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>largely taken from <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to gain control of your free time | Laura Vanderkam | TED\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n3kNlFMXslo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udemy.com\/course\/productivity-and-time-management\/learn\/lecture\/3958682#overview\" title=\"\">https:\/\/www.udemy.com\/course\/productivity-and-time-management\/learn\/lecture\/3958682#overview<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My takeaways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We have 168 hours in a week which is a lot of time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There is Time, Build the life you want from the time you have.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Let presume you are in a full time job =40 hours\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>sleeping 8 hours a night = 56 hours. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That Leaves 72 hours for other things.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Think about turning of Tech i.e phones and Tv<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Could you find 8 hours in your week if your car broke down while driving your child to school? So time is there if it&#8217;s a high enough priority.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Time is highly elastic you cannot make more time, it can though stretch to accommodate what we choose to put in it. (Parkinson&#8217;s law)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>So the key is prioritize those really important items and treat it with the importance of a broken car. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For the average person, I don&#8217;t have time really means it&#8217;s not important enough.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tops tips use Top priorities for the day and week.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Plan your day, block out time, turn off phone and close slack and emails<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Don&#8217;t try and multitask, stay focused on 1 core task at a time. You will get stuff done quicker overall as with a distraction on average it takes 15 mins to get back in the flow<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Don&#8217;t let email and Slack interrupt and overly dictate your day.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Try and find solutions to save your time through things like automation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>use <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parkinson%27s_law\" title=\"\">Parkisons law <\/a> to your benefit (think about working hard to a deadline )<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the Jack Dorsey approach &#8211; think about having a theme for each day &amp; batch activities i.e emails , training etc<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Make use of &#8220;Dead&#8221; time (for example while you are travelling to work, 10 mins between meetings)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Think of your day as being like a Formula One race, you need to build in pit-stops (breaks) to get the most out of the race (day). You cannot run at 100% the whole day and race.<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>largely taken from and https:\/\/www.udemy.com\/course\/productivity-and-time-management\/learn\/lecture\/3958682#overview My takeaways:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ted-talks","category-using-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-musing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-musing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-musing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-musing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-musing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tech-musing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-musing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-musing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-musing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}