Introduction: Many people often say that time itself cannot be managed. However, you can gain greater freedom in the future through changes in your own behavior and the practice of certain concepts. Share a successful inspirational article, welcome to read.
Make your time more valuable with these 8 tricks
Text/Angry Strawberry
Do you have this feeling: no time at all? Not enough!
After reading so many articles on time management, there are still endless tasks and things to do, and I can’t help but break a minute in half.
Why is it ineffective?
Because most time management articles are about how to use efficiency tools, how to be more executive, how to reduce procrastination, and how to improve self-control.
You can indeed use them to solve the most urgent superficial needs at the moment, but after mastering them, you will still feel some shortcomings.
It’s like you work overtime until your eyelids can no longer stand. A cup of coffee or strong tea can quickly replenish your energy, but what you really need at this time is to fall into bed and sleep.
Simply thinking about how to complete 24 hours a day as quickly as possible is not enough. Working like a top is not enough. That's just rudimentary time management. You'll also need unusual time management.
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1. Cloning time: selling 1 share of time into N shares
In the TV series "Journey to the West", Sun Wukong can pull out 3 life-saving hairs from the back of his head, gritting his teeth, Endure the pain, blow some fairy air, and shout "change", and a bunch of little macaques that look like Sun Wukong will pop out.
This may be the earliest "cloning technology" seen in literary works.
In terms of time management, if we can also clone one copy of time into multiple copies, wouldn’t it be a simple way to make more time?
Clone one copy of time The value of your unit time is multiplied by the number of parts.
In the Internet age, time cloning technology has been realized, and this is not a patent reserved for talented people. Because Internet products are easy to copy and have almost zero marginal cost, ordinary people can easily achieve it.
Looking at it from another perspective, this is to create a product that can be copied and diffused in different time and space.
For example, the popular "Get" column, Himalayan audio courses, and micro-course sharing on various platforms allow speakers to publish content with only one time investment and receive tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of subscriptions. Users will receive knowledge products individually.
If the lecturer taught one-on-one to the readers, he could circle the earth several times in this time.
Some people say that I can’t do such a thing as recording classes, because I don’t know how to teach.
So, words can always be used, right? Writing articles is a way to turn one time into multiple times.
The famous popular science writer Wan Weigang knows this well. He talked about his surprising discovery in the book "Unexpectedly":
I am writing this short article. The article took 1 hour... Considering that nearly 400 people have subscribed to this blog through Google Reading, as long as you read this article for more than 10 seconds, I dare say you have won.
He compared the writing time of the article with the total time it took others to read the article, and he clearly felt the pleasure of selling one writing time into N parts.
2. Integrating value: turning one thing into N values ??
On Huama Street in Lijiang, Yunnan, almost every restaurant sells salmon. Many tourists visiting Lijiang will stop by.
The highlight of these restaurants is "One fish, many dishes": the fish skin is fried, the fish bones are boiled into soup, and the fish meat is made into salmon sashimi? There are many tricks.
The same goes for time management. Find a way to make the completion of one thing drive multiple outputs. When the total length of time remains unchanged, the quality of life will still become higher.
Stay-at-home moms often ask: How do we gain financial independence? Ask this question.
This is because stay-at-home mothers are fully committed to taking care of their children. They are so busy that they almost don’t even have time to go to the bathroom, but they still hope to earn income on their own.
The subtext is: How can you make money while raising a baby?
For these mothers, since raising a baby is a must-do and takes up a lot of time, then Wouldn't adding economic value to this matter solve the problem?
For example, while taking care of the baby, you can study:
How to take good-looking photos of your baby with your mobile phone, How to insist on making complementary foods that babies love to eat, how to read picture books to children vividly, how to use positive discipline tools to train children, etc.
Then teach your expertise in the form of paid courses to more parents in need.
Some newcomers in the workplace frown when faced with the tasks assigned by the company: "You want me to do so much worthless work for such a small amount of money, bah!" On the other hand, they are distressed. Unable to spare time to sign up for classes and learn new abilities.
As everyone knows, the current difficult tasks are not only fulfilling the boss's requirements, but also exercising one's own abilities.
In this way, a task has the dual value of "working for the boss" and "working for yourself", making you feel happy and bright when you work.
The value of one thing is like a piece of music. Only the main melody is too boring, so multiple ensembles will not be monotonous.
According to my observation, many "great masters" are good at the results of anything, not sticking to a single dimension, but expanding to multiple values.
This is why I particularly advocate thinking about WHY before doing something. If you can tell a lot of questions about a task you are about to start, why do you want to do it?, you have given this thing multiple values, which is equivalent to earning a lot of time.
3. Pay attention to the essence: trace the source and cornerstone
Many years ago, I asked a master to teach me how to learn bamboo flute, and I probably spent a long time learning long notes. , trills, colorful tongues, etc., it is extremely boring.
At that time, I didn’t understand why we didn’t just teach the students how to play the music right from the start, even if it was a popular piece that was not difficult like "A Dream of Red Mansions".
Later I finally realized that this is a slow process.
When doing things or learning new things, if you can grasp the source and cornerstone, understand it first, clear up the blockages, and speed up later, you will definitely save a lot of time in the future.
The basic skills taught by the teacher are equivalent to the foundation before building a house. If the foundation is unstable, the house may collapse in the future. After learning these contents well, the songs you will come into contact with in the future are just combinations and transformations, and you will get started quickly.
You won’t see any significant effects in a short period of time, but when you reach a certain stage and have a solid foundation, you can use the first one you learned earlier as the first ten, and your progress will be rapid.
This is like the curve of compound interest. It is gentle in the first section, but suddenly shoots up to the sky in the back.
If you don’t grasp the underlying routine, it will only make you exhausted.
The source and cornerstone are the more important and basic parts. What content belongs to this category?
In terms of doing things, it is a general skill and a task to achieve the task. The core part of these. General skills for accomplishing tasks are the basis for work, such as project management, goal management, action management, etc.
The core part of the task is the hardest part of the task, such as the idea of ??writing an article.
In terms of cognition, it is "elementary laws", "thinking patterns" and so on. The "elementary law" is the law that governs the laws in various daily fields, such as the "28 principle", "compound interest", etc.
"Thinking patterns" are common classic routines that can be used in thinking, such as "golden thinking circle".
In terms of learning, it is “meta-knowledge” or a specific concept. "Meta-knowledge" is knowledge about knowledge. For example, to master learning methods, "neuroscience and cognitive science" are considered meta-knowledge.
A specific concept is a clear guide to action. Once you understand it, you will not get blinded.
For example, if you can clearly explain the word "deliberate practice" and its meaning, it will be easier to achieve results.
4. One call and a hundred responses: Use the effect of "One call and a hundred responses"
Not long ago, a famous celebrity released a course. In a short period of time, netizens rushed to tell each other and swiped the screen in the circle of friends. Created the first phenomenal product this year.
At that moment, the big shot didn’t need to put in much effort on his own to get many people willing to spend their time and money to help him promote it. This is equivalent to using other people's resources to help yourself earn time, which is infinitely powerful.
This kind of "one call and hundreds of responses" is brought about by influence. Creating influence is a very advanced way of time management.
In some units, leadership positions are not only stressful at work, but also difficult to take care of family. The salary may not be significantly different from that of ordinary employees, but many people are still willing to strive for this position.
In addition to pursuing a sense of value, another reason is influence. When a leader has hidden resources, he can use subordinates' resources to do things, such as subordinates' time, expertise, and connections. Suddenly, life expands to many possibilities.
You will say that it is impossible for all ordinary people to become leaders, and creating influence is of no use to me. Wait, influence does not have to be used in the workplace, it can also be used in the family.
Take parenting for example, if you have influence on your children and the children are willing to cooperate with their parents to implement good habits when they are ignorant, you as a parent will definitely spend less time in the future and of course save your personal time. Something you are passionate about.
How to achieve the effect of getting hundreds of responses? The book "Influence" provides 6 weapons: reciprocity, love, commitment, social recognition, authority, and scarcity. You can choose and use them at will.
5. Appropriate authorization: let professional people do professional things
Before the Lunar New Year, every household must clean the inside and outside, such as range hoods and outward-facing glass. For the difficult part, sometimes I spend a long time doing it, only to suffer from backache and leg cramps.
If the housekeeping staff comes to your door and uses professional tools three times or two times, it will be cleaner, newer and shiny than if you sweat profusely for 2 hours.
And the 2 hours you spend on this may allow you to read a book that changes your life. Which one do you think is more cost-effective?
Some Business people spin like a top every day, but you can still see perfect articles, interesting interactions, and beautiful layout from their personal official accounts.
You can easily deduce that he must have some time management skills. Yes, the article can be original, but you don’t have to do the typesetting yourself!? They are people who know how to authorize.
In life and work, you don’t have to do everything yourself. Letting go is a new beginning.
Now that the Internet is so developed, the efficiency of linking to resources is hundreds of times higher than before. It is easy to find professionals in a certain field (such as housekeeping, errands, taxi-hailing software, etc.). Will it help you save time?
Put the time you squeeze out into more important things, and the value gained will shine brightly.
Some tasks may seem like they cannot be outsourced, but in fact there are ways. Because a task can definitely be divided into a core part and some non-core mechanical operation parts.
If you have to do the core part, then you choose to complete it yourself. The remaining non-core parts can be left to trustworthy people and let professional people do professional things.
6. Paid learning: Paid learning avoids detours
Nowadays, participating in a classic large-scale training can easily cost several thousand yuan for two or three days, and may cost a newcomer in the workplace several months. The salary is so high, I can’t afford it even if I think about it.
However, if there are high-quality courses that you urgently need, and you can save a few years after completing them, do you think it is a good deal to spend thousands of dollars like this? This is what is called? Spending money to buy time is not renewable. , the money is okay.
When I first got married and was promoted to be the “Minister of Finance” in my family, I began to study investment anxiously and painstakingly, and even started learning financial statements from scratch.
In the end, I finally found that for young people, the best investment is to invest in yourself first and pay to learn knowledge.
What is more worthy of investment than any financial product is your young self.
If you are not a full-time investor, the rate of return on your own investment is definitely better than looking at the K-line all day long.
Because the skills learned are irreversible, but the money earned from investment may depreciate. If the so-called investment is just speculation, you will have nothing in minutes, and the time you invested before will be in vain.
For paid learning, learners attach great importance to it because they pay tuition fees. The teachers who teach are generally more attentive and the knowledge they convey is more complete and systematic.
When you encounter difficulties, the teacher often gives you a gentle nudge, and you suddenly realize it. Therefore, with less time investment, you can still reap fruitful fruits.
Of course, this does not mean that all free resources are without value, but because in the era of information explosion, it takes a lot of time to filter and organize systematic knowledge.
What should you do if you really can’t afford the training? There is still a way! Some training is often a practical course extracted from a book or several books.
In China, a non-fiction paper book costs as little as twenty or thirty yuan, and as much as fifty or sixty yuan.
With such a small amount of effort, the author can reap the research results of several years or even decades. It is really a bargain! If you read e-books, you will save even more.
In the Internet era, there are other forms of paid learning, such as the rise of various paid knowledge platforms.
You can easily find the professionals you need to consult on it. Under their guidance, you can avoid detours and avoid pitfalls. Isn’t this just spending money to buy time?
7. Keep an eye on the goal: spend time on the long-term goal
When I was a child and just learned to ride a bicycle, I always liked to lower my head to see how my feet were doing. Adults said: How can I learn to do this? Your eyes must look forward and far away to grasp the balance!?
The same is true for time management. Urgent matters in work and life are like a gourd that is pressed down and water rises again. There is always a gourd that cannot be pressed to the end.
Except for industries that require agility in response to changes, these "gourds" are often caused by our failure to plan in advance.
For example, there is no presumption of what abilities and qualities you need during a certain period of time, no guessing of possible risks at a certain point, no preparation for emergencies, etc.
Until the time approached, I was in a mess.
The farther you can see the pattern, the bigger the game of chess you can play.
If every once in a while, you can set goals for things that may need attention in the future, make plans, and make arrangements in advance, then when the future comes, everything will be smooth and orderly, without anxiety or rush.
Allocate today’s time to things that can create more time for tomorrow. This is called “living in the future”.
An even more incomparable trick is to look at the pattern beyond the length of an individual’s life and examine it from the time dimension of the human group.
For example, create a new cause of extremely high value to society and write a masterpiece that is unprecedented and unprecedented.
This time management is amazing, allowing the time you acquire to transcend individual limitations and spread throughout history.
8. Build pipelines: Build your pipeline system
Nowadays, if you want to use water in the city, you only need to turn the faucet. You must know that China's tap water industry was born in 1908 at the end of the Qing Dynasty.
When there was no running water system before, you had to go to a well or walk a long way to get water. Each person could only carry two buckets at a time. Once you feel unwell one day, you can't go out to get water.
At that time, drinking water meant physical work, and drinking more or less depended on efficiency.
Now, even if you feel unwell and cannot go out one day, it still does not affect your ability to use water? It depends on the tap water pipes. Drink more and less, depending on the system. If you only strive for efficiency, your water consumption will definitely be more than if the system fails to compete.
The same is true for time management. Competing with others for efficiency in doing things is just a stopgap measure. After all, there are only 24 hours in a day, so it is not cost-effective to do it all.
Even if the Boss buys your time, you can only sell it 24 hours a day, yes, just such a small amount of time.
A more advanced approach is to build a system in doing things, even if it seems to be running slowly for the time being. When it slowly grows stronger and can operate continuously, it is the time when it can truly exert its power.
Great people will do this, finish things beautifully and quietly, and then the system will appear, and everyone will exclaim: "Oh! This is actually like this!"
Those who work hard will never do it. You can't beat the system.
Once the system is running, it can still exist without you. Even if you are not present, the income will still fall into your pocket automatically, without affecting the quality of life.
Your time is all at your disposal. Use it to drink tea, bask in the sun, and do the things you love. Isn’t this a very effective time to waste your time on beautiful things? Manage it?
The above shared 8 unusual time management methods, have any of them touched your heart?
Many people often say that time itself cannot be managed. . However, you can gain greater freedom in the future through changes in your own behavior and the practice of certain concepts.
The lyrics always say "I bet my youth on tomorrow", which is quite right when I think about it.
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