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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8 Tips to save 10 more minutes daily for you

Many friends always complain that time flies too fast without noticed. In fact, there are always minutes or hours can be saved for us. But before introducing how to save time every day, we shall know one principle that is “every little make a nickel“. Here I will list some simple and effective tips on save 10 more minutes every day.

1 make plan

“Fail to plan is plan to fail”. To make a plan for a new day needs not much time, but it will save us more time (10? 20? or more minutes). Sometimes, you even only need to list 1 to 6 important things to do for a day, other things need no considering. In fact, much of our time is wasted on not knowing what the right thing is for next step.

2 Do some exercises

“Sharpening your axe will not delay your job of cutting wood“. We all know that best body state will bring high efficiency on work, but we tend to forget that exercises will make us come into better body state easily.

3. Create a non-distractions time

Every day, we are affected by many distractions from various sources: phone call, email, IM, visit, unexpected things and so on. We can say that we shall try to train ourselves immune to these distractions, but is it better to create a non-distractions time? Perhaps this time slot is short, for example only one hour. Close the door and phone get offline, etc. I always treasure this time slot and complete the most important things for me.

4. Try to be an early riser

“The early bird catches the worm“. Getting up early means we naturally have a non-distractions time. And at the same time, we have more time then people who get up late, that is to say, we will have more chances.

Many people like to work late to the night, of course, this is ok. But it is reported that keeping early hours is good to health.

5. Group similar tasks

Doing similar tasks back to back is a good idea to save time. It is always a time cost to shift from one task to another, especially when these two tasks have not many similarities.

6. Use a countdown timer

A countdown timer will remind us of time left. I always set 15 minutes as the interval for trifles and 40 more minutes a time for big and important things. Many of us always experience lapse in attention unconsciously, which can be easily eliminated by using countdown timer.

7 Make use of waiting time

We always have to wait for someone or something. The waiting time is also another source for saving time. If prepared well, we can enjoy a new story, a new song, call someone, read some emails or make some decisions and so on.

8. Take time journal

A good time journal is the start of good use of time. Many of us always spend too much time on web surfing, relaxing and so on. Through making time journal, we can find and remove some unnecessary tasks, reduce time spent on non-important things, compare when we can have better efficiency.

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