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How do you use the clock to improve productivity?
For most of people, clock is used to manage time. They plan everything according to the indication of the clock. Every day is divided into hours, minutes and so on.
For me, I come to reduce the use of clock, especially on using it to manage time.
Once completing setting a fixed time, I always feel nervous. I don’t like dividing every day into hours, and then put things into these hour-blocks. Every time I do this, I feel bad. So I decided to make a change.
Now I only use clock as a reminder. I only set reminders for very important or must-do things. In most cases, I close my clock and everything related with time. I only focus on my to-do things list today.
In my opinion, we shall manage activities instead of time, because time can’t be managed. And another reason is I believe time is relative.
Many people have the same experience with me: sometimes, we have finished much work, but when we check the time used, the result astonishes us. we couldn’t believe that we just spent so little time.
About time, I have 3 ideas to share:
1. time is relative
The one minute in others’ eyes may be one hour in your experience. you must try to believe this and enjoy this. You are in charge of your experience, no exception for time.
Don’t focus on the time on your clock, focus on that in your mind.
3 inspiring things to begin a good day
To begin a day with a good start is important, because it will set for you the initial vibration level of the whole day. If you want to live this day well, fulfilled and worthwhile, you should consider how to give your new day a good beginning.
from my own experience, I found that you can use only 3 inspiring things to begin. but before we start, we shall mention one thing:
Get up earlier than before
All these 3 things will take you some time, although not too much time. so it is better to get up earlier than before so as not to be late for your job. In fact, only 30 minutes earlier are enough.
Now let’s begin and the 3 things are:
1. meditation
Set aside 10 minutes or 15 minutes, sit down on a comfort chair or sofa, close your eyes and pay attention to your breath.
Don’t consider how long has passed because the alarm will remind you of it. Don’t resist anything. Quietly feel the occupation of your body, to feel that your body begin to expand and get lighter than ever little by little.
You perhaps will feel sleepy during this process, don’t worry. remember not to try to resist anything. The alarm will remind you of the meditation process. The truth is you will feel ease and relaxed whether you get sleep or not.
When the alarm rings, stand up and drink some water and now begin the second thing.
How to complete your daily plan ?
You made a plan yesterday evening, but you end this day with only a part of it finished. You are busy all the day long, but you go to sleep with no feeling of satisfaction.
Do you have such experience? If your answer is yes, I bet you must want to know how to complete your daily plan. after all, it took you some time to make this plan and you hoped you can step towards your goals thought the plan.
Here I provide 5 tips on completing plan with satisfaction, read them and leave your comments below:
1. make inspired plan
I have written a post on making inspired plan before. An inspired plan means your plan are goals-related. when you do the thing in the plan, you will feel harmony doing them. You are willing to do it, not obliged to complete it.
A good plan is the first step to an effective and satisfying day. It is better to make no plan than to make a bad plan.
Don’t include all the things in your plan, instead, only consider the things which are helpful to your goals. You should focus on effective things, which will trigger the manifestation process of your goals.
Generally speaking, a plan including no more than 6 things is good. Too many things will make you confused and lose your dominant attention.
2. make preparation for your plan
Here, “preparation ” means two parts: one is from your spiritual part; the other is the physical part.
You may be familiar with the preparation from the physical part. and it is really very important. but it is not the key.
The key is to make preparation in your non-physical part. for every thing in the list, visualize the Scenarios where you have finished it, affirm that it will be easy for you to complete it with expected and unexpected help.
It is not a waste of time visualizing and affirming. The total process may only cost 5 minutes or so, but you will find it easier to concentrate on your plan and get more lucks while doing it.
3. stick to your plan
Once beginning your plan, only doing one thing at a time.
Clean your work environment, reduce the windows opened in your computer, only leave the necessary resources for working.
keep the plan in sight. you can paste it on your computer screen, show it on another computer’s desktop, or write it down on your notebook and place it around you.
here are 3 top tips which I am using to boost productivity.
4. manage activities, not time
It is not a good idea to manage time, because time can’t be controlled for many people. but you can manage activities, no matter how much things you will encounter during the day, you always have the right to choose which activity you will do NOW.
read more on “manage time or manage activities? “.
In fact, if you know the 10-minute productivity rule, you will find it easier to always find time for your dominant activities.
5. be grateful for everything you experience
Only effective actions can work for a successful day. Be grateful for everything you experience during the day, because everything has two sides. Find good side to feel grateful, and you will attract more things into your life which make you feel good.
Be grateful can also help you maintain good emotions while working. Under these emotions, you will be easier to find ways on completing your plan.
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