The happiest things in life are nothing more than three freedoms: financial freedom, time freedom and spiritual freedom. The core of time freedom is your sense of control over time. The goal of time management is not to have more time, but to do more to make yourself happy and do more things that you think are valuable and meaningful in a limited time. Why is it so important to make good use of fragment time? The following is a collection of reasons I collected for you. Let's have a look!
Make good use of fragmented time and you'll get an extra hour a day
Author: Ren Li
In today's era of knowledge anxiety, it seems that each of us is constantly accepting new knowledge and learning new skills, and we will find that there is less and less time. We have many plans and have no time to implement them. We become more and more out of control: out of control in time, out of control in goals, out of control in relationships, and finally out of control in life.
Have you ever thought about one person, how do you treat time, and how do you define time? Your attitude towards time determines how time rewards you.
Define your fragmentation time unit
When it comes to fragmentation time, how long does it appear in your mind? Some people think it's an hour, others think it's ten minutes. Teacher Akiba defined fragmentation as one minute.
What can you do in a minute? Open your brain hole now.
You can recite two words a minute;
One minute can make a self introduction;
You can make an impromptu speech in one minute;
You can listen to 300 words a minute;
When the fragmented time is defined as the shorter time unit, the more attention we pay to time and the more results we produce per unit.
Pick up your mobile phone and brush wechat for 10 to 20 minutes. Time slipped away so quietly. When we find that we can write 500 words in 20 minutes, you will feel distressed about the wasted 20 minutes.
We always look forward to finding a large piece of time and sinking down to do a very important thing. We often find that it is not easy to find such time in a day. You are always disturbed by all kinds of phone calls, all kinds of information, family chores and emotions.
We always regret that we didn't achieve our set goals, and "no time" often becomes an excuse for us not to achieve them. There is always a time squeeze. When we plan the tasks we can complete in five minutes, we have no excuse for procrastination.
Manage life with fragmented time management thinking
I remember Harvard School of management once mentioned the concept of 18 minutes to easily manage every day. How are these 18 minutes allocated? Take 5 minutes to plan the focus of the day before work, 1 minute per hour to refocus, and 5 minutes before work to honestly review and reflect on yourself, and review all day. Such continuous summary and thinking will make us highly sensitive to time.
When we want to achieve a big goal, we will disassemble the goal, disassemble a big goal every day and implement it every day. The mode of fragmented time work is to maintain continuous and integrated thinking.
This is just a positive and reverse way of thinking and working.
For example. If we think of a book, we first need to set a deadline for ourselves, one year or two? This book is designed into six chapters, with about 6-7 articles in each chapter. If the first draft is expected to be written in half a year, we can decompose it into the output of each week and each day, so as to ensure the achievement of the goal.
Conversely, if we have the ability of frame writing and consciously build a system, we can use fragmented time to fill the content in the system and write excellent articles. From the perspective of compound interest of writing, this is the content of book publishing in the future.
Using fragmented time to write a public sign in an hour is not yet possible for me. In Qiuye, the teacher shared his fragmented writing method of writing public signs in one hour: one minute inspiration + five minutes conception + five minutes outline + three minutes material + half an hour efficient writing + five minutes typesetting + five minutes drawing + one minute push + one minute reply to comments.
I found that I was good at the inspiration part in the first minute. I often watch a movie, see a phenomenon and hear a discussion, and I will record them. The following ideas and outlines did not keep up, and many ideas lay quietly in the Notepad.
Sometimes, I have an idea in my mind. I will write and draw on a piece of A4 paper. Around this theme, I will give full play to my free association and list all the things I think of. Then, integrate the internal logic or interrelated parts into a theme, and prune the irrelevant information. In this way, the general structure of the article is sorted out.
In one of my folders, there are a large number of articles that can't be completed after only writing the beginning or half of it. Those may just be fragments of inspiration, but because there is no outline or framework, it is difficult to complete. Therefore, with inspiration, we should focus on the idea of this article and have a belief in our heart. We must write this article and don't give up easily.
I prefer to work in parallel with multiple tasks. For example, I play recordings when I wash the dishes, movies when I eat, and I listen to books or share some knowledge when I do some mechanical input work that does not require brain thinking. This does not prevent me from recording some important knowledge points.
Last year, I read Jianfei's "speed writing", which mentioned the use of Xunfei Yuji for voice writing. After trying, I found that this is indeed a good tool for efficient writing. Now, the first draft of my article is basically completed in the record of Xunfei language. If I set up a framework and write an outline, the writing process is really fast. Generally, I can complete an article of more than 2000 words in 30 minutes. After the first draft is completed, I will modify it on the computer, convert the spoken language into written language, polish the language and ensure the smoothness of the sentences.
The key to the efficient use of fragmented time is to train the conversion speed of thinking
When it comes to time management, we have to mention the working principle of tomato clock. Is to give yourself 25 minutes to focus on one thing. Later, I found that having this undisturbed 25 minutes is also very luxurious. We need to adapt to this rhythm and learn to switch freely between different thinking and working modes.
For example, when you are writing, you suddenly have a phone call that you have to answer. The phone brings you bad news and makes you feel very angry. Put down the phone, you may still be immersed in such an emotion that the rhythm of writing is completely disrupted.
If we have such a strong conversion ability, at that moment, let go of our emotions, adjust the channel immediately, and focus on the work at hand. Adjust your mood after you finish this work.
This is actually a job of killing two birds with one stone.
When our emotions come, we sometimes make some mistakes because of impulse. Later, we may spend a lot of time to make up for it, and we may regret our impulse. Changing the mode gives us time and space to stop and review the whole process of the event. We may come out of the vortex of emotion and return to rationality again.
On the other hand, if our work is not disrupted by this call and we use the remaining time to finish it successfully, we will experience a sense of achievement, activate the reward circuit of the brain and make ourselves feel happy. This pleasant experience itself may dilute our anger just now.
The first draft of this article was completed by Xunfei Yuji at noon. I was very busy in the afternoon. I took the case supervision course in the evening. It didn't end until about 11 o'clock. I had to stay up late and finish the article.