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How to Save an Hour a Day
How to Save an Hour a Day
By Adam Sinicki
I am into personal development and self improvement as you no doubt are aware if you read this site regularly, and so it was for this reason that my angelic girlfriend bought me the book 'How to Save an Hour a Day'. At first I was skeptical of such a book as it would in fact take up an hour a day at least for several days, and particularly because of my famously slow reading speed. However after giving the book a go, I found that it actually did have some very good tips in it that really did help me to save an hour a day (and some pretty bad ones too but I glossed over those).
I do still have one criticism of How to Save an Hour a Day though, and that is that it is a whole book. Seeing as it's whole objective is to promote expedience in all that you do, it seemed to me odd that it should be in a book format when you can portray all of the lessons quite easily as a series of bullet points in an article. An article like this one... Here then we will look at some ways to save an hour a day. Some are taken from the book, and others are taken from other sources, or from my own sick head. Use those that appeal to you and then maybe you'll find time in your day to be able to read How to Save an Hour a Day...
Set Rewards: This one came from the actual How to Save an Hour a Day book, and I have to admit it's been brilliant for saving me time and is a great example of cognitive restructuring in action. Basically when you settle down to work, and when you would normally check your e-mail and make tea etc, change that making tea and checking e-mail into something that you do later as a reward for doing a certain amount of work. So instead of making tea, checking Facebook, checking your e-mail then making another cup of tea before writing, you write 1,000 words then make tea, write 1,000 more and then check your e-mail, write 1,000 more then check Facebook etc. It saves so much time, and you'll find that once you reach 1,000 you actually often end up pushing the target back further to say 1,500. It's a great form of pleasure delay too.
Have a Clear Out: Another one of my favourites from How to Save an Hour a Day. This simply suggests clearing out your things and getting rid of anything you don't need or want. It's great advice because it will clear out your physical space so that you're more organized and can clean quicker etc, while at the same time clearing out your mental space so you can be more switched on and alert and feel less cluttered and claustrophobic.
Learn to Speed Read: Or not even that – learn to skim. Bascially this involves writing out a few things you want to get from a book and then scanning the book for those things ignoring all other things as you do. By having written those things down first you can then just hone in on them as your eyes glide over the text. This one I got from the personal MBA.
Prioritise Tasks: Something that I have used myself to improve my productivity considerably. The proiblem for me in terms of productivity often is that I have conflicting feelings regarding what I should be doing and this means that I can't concentrate on any one thing. Getting the smaller tasks out the way first then helps to combat this by giving me fewer competing distractions. If you do the longest task first then throughout it you will be thinking in the back of your mind of all the other things you need to do. So in an average day I have to say 'write 10,000 words, call the landlord, write some e-mails and upload an article to the Biomatrix'. Instead of starting with the big task (the 10,000) words as might seem to be the best course of action, I will do the smaller tasks first. That way when I come to do the big task I can just write with 100% concentration and not worry about anything else. If I genuinely have to do all the tasks then it doesn't matter which one I finish first, but by doing the big one last I will get through it more quickly.
Save Important Ones: Another one that is all me rather than coming from How to Save an Hour a Day is to leave some of the absolutely crucial tasks to last. These are the tasks that you have to do no matter what. Things that have deadlines on them, or that other people are relying on. If you know you're definitely going to do those things, then by leaving them to last you ensure that you have done the maximum number of things – thus having less to do tomorrow.
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How to Save an Hour a DayBy Adam Sinicki
I do still have one criticism of How to Save an Hour a Day though, and that is that it is a whole book. Seeing as it's whole objective is to promote expedience in all that you do, it seemed to me odd that it should be in a book format when you can portray all of the lessons quite easily as a series of bullet points in an article. An article like this one... Here then we will look at some ways to save an hour a day. Some are taken from the book, and others are taken from other sources, or from my own sick head. Use those that appeal to you and then maybe you'll find time in your day to be able to read How to Save an Hour a Day...
Have a Clear Out: Another one of my favourites from How to Save an Hour a Day. This simply suggests clearing out your things and getting rid of anything you don't need or want. It's great advice because it will clear out your physical space so that you're more organized and can clean quicker etc, while at the same time clearing out your mental space so you can be more switched on and alert and feel less cluttered and claustrophobic. Learn to Speed Read: Or not even that – learn to skim. Bascially this involves writing out a few things you want to get from a book and then scanning the book for those things ignoring all other things as you do. By having written those things down first you can then just hone in on them as your eyes glide over the text. This one I got from the personal MBA. Prioritise Tasks: Something that I have used myself to improve my productivity considerably. The proiblem for me in terms of productivity often is that I have conflicting feelings regarding what I should be doing and this means that I can't concentrate on any one thing. Getting the smaller tasks out the way first then helps to combat this by giving me fewer competing distractions. If you do the longest task first then throughout it you will be thinking in the back of your mind of all the other things you need to do. So in an average day I have to say 'write 10,000 words, call the landlord, write some e-mails and upload an article to the Biomatrix'. Instead of starting with the big task (the 10,000) words as might seem to be the best course of action, I will do the smaller tasks first. That way when I come to do the big task I can just write with 100% concentration and not worry about anything else. If I genuinely have to do all the tasks then it doesn't matter which one I finish first, but by doing the big one last I will get through it more quickly. Save Important Ones: Another one that is all me rather than coming from How to Save an Hour a Day is to leave some of the absolutely crucial tasks to last. These are the tasks that you have to do no matter what. Things that have deadlines on them, or that other people are relying on. If you know you're definitely going to do those things, then by leaving them to last you ensure that you have done the maximum number of things – thus having less to do tomorrow. |
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