Shall we do time management or activities management?

Recently, I have  learned a new idea on productivity improvement from the 11 forgotten laws. That is: we should perform activities management instead of time management.

Do you have such experiences? when you are absorbed in doing something, the time flies relatively slower. You perhaps used only half of the usual time to complete the same thing.

Paying too much attention to time will bring nervous to some of us, if so, just let go the time management. Focus on your activities, especially those relating with your goals.

Anything which makes you feel stressful will not work for you. We use time management just to finish our activities, so why not directly manage activities?

Time can’t be managed, because unexpected things will always interrupt you. Once you can’t finish your segment-goal in planned time, you will not feel comfortable. You now know, uncomfortable feelings will bring more of the similar if you don’t take measure to change it.

There is no absolute right or wrong for time management or activities management. The key is your feelings. Do your time management go well these days? If not, try the simple activities management.

How to do activities management – an overview

It is also a big subject for activities management. so here we only share the basic steps for it. But they do work.

1 make to-be list

This is the first step to a successful activities management. We don’t want to manage all the activities, instead, we only care the important things.

But what are the important activities? Let us make it clear from your to-be list.

to-be list is a list including what you want to be, have or own. It can mean the physical things, character or spiritual improvement.

Sit down quietly and write down the list, or , you can make it in your mind and see it using your mind eyes.

Visualize every thing in the list, attach your emotions and enjoy the feelings of being in it.

This step is like what mentioned in “make inspired plan“, but it goes further.

2 make to-do list

We are all familiar with this step. just listing the things to do is easy, but to list the important things to do is not so easy.

Make you feel good while listing your things or activities. Once you finish the first step, you will connect with your inner self and focus on your goals. Close your eyes and pay attention to your feelings, every thing which doesn’t fit your goals will not make you feel happy.

Review the things in your list and feel them. Don’t make too much things in the list. Generally speaking, 6 is more than enough.

It is worthwhile to spend minutes on these two steps, because they are making you rushing on the right way.

3 visualize to confirm your to-do list and affirm it

With the two steps above, you are advancing towards your goals in the right direction. But do you want more guidance so as to reach there in less time?

Visualization and affirmation will do.

I prefer to visualize for I can easily attach my emotions during the process. and I take the words in the visualization as affirmations too.

For each thing in the to-do list, visualize what you will do or have when you complete it. Be in the feelings and be one with them.

Always value more at the result than the process. We can have more than one way to the desires. for me, I tend to make clear the end result, I describe the details of the result in my mind and try to be in it.

Love you.

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make inspired plan

Background

Making plan is not just to list things down. It is to list one step or several steps for your goals. Many friends misunderstand that making plan is only to complete the daily things. No, it is totally wrong.

Every day can be a day stepping forward your goals, or a day stepping away from your goals. You perhaps live a full day, but a full day doesn’t mean that you live an effective day.

Only when what you do in a day is helpful for your goals, the day is effective. And whether the day is effective or not is greatly decided by your plan.

We need inspired plan, not simply write things down.

What does “inspired plan” mean?

Inspired plan means a plan that follows your bliss and can help you step towards your goals.

Only when you clearly know and are aligned with your goals, you can have a chance to make plan effectively and inspiring.

How to make inspired plan?

To make inspired plan is easier said than done. You need not take much action to complete the plan making process. Instead, what you need is just a good state before you make plan every time.

Here, there are 3 tips I usually use to get a so called good state:

1. meditation
2. creative visualization
3. wealth affirmations and creative visualization

You perhaps have known and used these 3 tips, if so, congratulations. It will be easier for you to get what we called “good state”.

Every time after you get into the good state, you can make the daily plan. you will be guided by your goals and easily follow your goals.

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Top 3 tips I am using to boost productivity

Everyone has his own ways to boost productivity. For me, the most frequently used 3 tips are:

1 list to-do things and sub-things
   
Once making clear our desires, it is relatively easy to list big stones every day. There is no need to complete all the things. For me, it is a lovely day too if I can step on the way to my desires.

I usually make the TO-Do list in the morning just after I wake up and appreciation process. Generally speaking, in the appreciation process, I will mentally appreciate my desires and related people and things. This is also a process of recalling my desires.

After the process, I first list 2 or 3 things to do on my desires and make positive affirmation for them. After I have breakfast, I will list extra 3 things and begin the process of sub-to-do list making.

It is interesting to make sub-to-do list using imindmap. About sub-to-do list, StevePavallia has written a excellent post explaining it. If you don’t know about imindmap, you can get information here.

I always take the to-do list and sub-to-do list making as parts of inspired actions.

2 focus and keep simplify

I will try to only focus on one thing in the list at a time once beginning work. Usually I use 3 sub-tips to keep simplify:

• Clean my office desk;

        Usually I only have a computer, a notebook and a ball-pen on the desk.

• Clean my computer desktop

        I don’t like drop too much shortcuts on the desktop. instead, I try to keep as few as possible of them.

        as to the wallpaper, I usually use my self made affirmation picture as the background. It is simple but informative for me.

• Reduce the routines that run concurrently

        To do this is not because I have not enough ram to run. I only run necessary applications concurrently.  

3 record progress

Have you once enjoyed the feeling of crossing of completed tasks?
I really like that feeling.

It is a virtuous cycle. I cross off one task, and then the left tasks get less. The less tasks left, the more focus I become.

After I beginning to use the law of attraction, I spend more time on affirmation and creative visualization before beginning of tasks. The biggest income for me to do these is I usually get some inspired ideas to complete my tasks in the list.

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