I can't do anything at work. How to do everything at work and at home: a step-by-step instruction for a superman

Hello, friends! With you Ekaterina Kalmykova. The situation when you do not have time to do anything is known to most women. Few people can boast that they manage to work, feed their children, and please their husband.

Modern girls are concerned about the issue of promotion career ladder and forget about family values. Meanwhile, with age, it is the family that will become a reliable rear, and work will fade into the background.

How to do everything around the house if you work and chase high social status? How to find this balance between domestic life and work life? You will find answers to these and other questions below.

You say, "Oh, that's planning again, it's getting nowhere!" It even leads - I will answer you. Thanks to planning, you can clearly structure your work and not worry about lack of time.

The first rule of time management: have a plan.

To make it more pleasant to organize your day, you can buy a beautiful diary. Is it so important for us girls to write in a special notebook?

Tasks for the day should be divided into urgent and important, secondary and remote. Things that can be postponed - postpone, do not load your time with them.

The second rule is that things that take less than 15 minutes should be done right away.

By collecting quick cases, you pollute your free time and leave no chance for their implementation. How to keep up with everything at work and at home in this situation? Just don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today. Wash dishes immediately without piling up. Make calls to customers immediately, not when you have nothing to do. Then the phrase “I don’t have time for anything at work” will not apply to you.

Don't be scared, no one is telling you to give them up entirely. Just set aside a special time for viewing the Instagram feed and others. No more than 15 minutes twice a day after hours. If you want to be distracted by the Vkontakte feed while writing the report, just remember that the report will not disappear, and you will have to finish it after work. But you can flip through the tape on the way home or during a break, if you really want to.

Is there a child in the house? Surely, disorder and chaos reigns, the ability to find the right thing is practically absent? Do you recognize yourself? Then the next planning rule is for you.

The fourth rule: try to maintain order in everything - in a notebook, in a diary, in clothes, in dishes, in emotions.

A woman who manages everything, first of all, is mentally and physically assembled. She does not allow herself excessive laziness and tries to bear for her actions.

Fifth rule: the presence of new interests.

Get yourself an interesting hobby that you do not mind spending at least an hour a day on. It could be anything: learning a new language, hitting the gym, or taking a driving class. A new business is a powerful incentive to put things in order in life and at work.

Work and family - let's live together: how to remove chaos at work

How to get everything done at work?

This is complex issue especially if you are in a responsible position. Nowadays, many vacancies at home have appeared, but this has not solved the problem of academic performance in the frantic pace of life.

Many working mothers ask: I don’t have time at work, what should I do? At the same time, it seems to them that they are geniuses, and failures are associated with other people. When working from home, discipline is especially important. often have a lot of work to do, but at home there is always something distracting. Then, as at work, a strict boss will helpfully give a kick for the slightest deviation from business.

How to keep up with a working at home mom?

First of all, you need to make a list of small tasks for the day and start doing them. The same advice applies to office workers. Do the little quick stuff first, like making phone calls at work, discussing a project with co-workers, sorting through work emails, and answering important ones.

After completing quick tasks, you can proceed to more global ones. Big things need to be done in several stages, which should be reflected in your diary. This way you will not have the idea that the project, which should be ready on November 1st, can be started on October 30th.

Do not be afraid of large tasks, because once you break them down into several small subtasks, it will be easier for you to perceive them.

Many people say the phrase "work less, do more." Of course, when a person works, he practically does not have time for himself, for his beloved, for his family. If the job would disappear, then he would build his own business, and complete the garage, and so on. No, I wouldn't build it and I wouldn't finish it.

Because a person who does not know how to build his time with work will not build it without it.

How do you get things done after work?

The answer to this question is simple - finish the work on time! According to statistics, people who leave half the work for the second part of the day are twice as likely to be late at work than those who try to do everything in the first part of the day. Want to leave work early? Do not be lazy during the work process and you will have more time for your family.

How to keep up with everything at work and at home, if work and home are the same place?

If you are the mother of a student or kindergartener, best opportunity for productive work provided while the child is in kindergarten or school. Take advantage of this time, do not be distracted by secondary matters, communication with friends and so on.

Clearly decide how much you will work and how much you will do housework. Identify what exactly distracts you from work and try to get rid of it. If you live with family, ask them to take over some of the responsibilities, at least for a few days a week. And remember, nothing slows down the workflow like a mess.

Keep things and thoughts in order, then you will not have to waste precious time looking for things and remembering the right events.

How to manage to live and work?

The secret is to learn how to properly allocate your time, you need to remove from your life everything that prevents you from moving up. Remember that others are not to blame for the fact that you do not have time to do anything.

Learn how to allocate your time so that it is enough for friends, work and family. There are 24 hours in a day, so at least three hours of them can be devoted to a family or a favorite business (person).

How to be the master of your time

To finally become a pro in the matter of time management, pay attention to the author's course by Evgeny Popov "Master of Time".

From the course, you will learn how to properly organize your life so that work and family become friends forever. Everything about time planning, its monetization, and much more interesting information contained in the course and waiting for you to study it.

Having spent quite a bit of time, you will learn how to build your schedule so that every day will bring you profit and a sea of ​​positive emotions.

Maybe you like to sit at the computer and dream that your hobby will bring you income? "Master of Time" will tell you how even the most useless activity can bring you dividends. The planning approaches that are described will open your eyes to many things.

By carefully studying the information and putting it into practice, you will forget what a lack of time is. This will not be taught at school or institute. You will not find such information on the Internet. All the secrets, all the tricks of time management are outlined in this course and are looking forward to when you use them.

Friends, this is the end of our conversation today. Dear readers, share your rules and secrets, how do you manage to do everything? I will look forward to your answers.

See you soon!

Ekaterina Kalmykova was with you,

As part of one of the favorite exercises that time management gurus conduct in their trainings, it is proposed to intuitively (that is, without mathematical calculations) estimate the number of hours that you have left for the rest of your life. The result of this exercise turns out to be very sobering: the vast majority of people exaggerate this figure, sometimes by 10-25% - which indicates how much we overestimate the resources we have and how poorly we plan our time. However, according to the same experts, once you start applying the simplest time management techniques, your life will change beyond recognition.

1. Decide on your desires and goals

Before mastering specific time management tools, it is important to understand what you are spending this most valuable resource on. Why exactly do you spend the weekend at the office, why do you study English, why do you need training in the gym, is it really for you that you have been mastering for many years? This advice seems incredibly simple, but in practice to formulate own desires, turning them into intentions and setting specific goals can be difficult - often we seem to live by inertia, without thinking about what we really want, as a result, we fill our lives with work on imposed, random desires and - not surprisingly - not too hard we are working on their implementation. Psychologists recommend the practice of visualizations: to understand what exactly you want, close your eyes and imagine yourself only in five to seven years. Try to feel your state of happiness and satisfaction with life ... then ask yourself: what do you do? What is your job? What do you do in your free time? Where do you live? How do you look? The answers to these questions are your goals; having formulated them, it is possible to pass actually to planning of time.

2. Plan carefully

Time management is impossible without planning - as a rule, the inability to meet deadlines and deadline failures are not associated with laziness or lack of motivation, but with lack of planning. Trying to learn two at the same time foreign languages, complete a super-responsible project at work and lose 10 kilos, we are trying to embrace the immensity - and in the end we don’t have time, we get tired, miss deadlines and give up half of our work halfway. To avoid disappointment in achieving your goal, prioritize and set realistic deadlines for each task: sadly, there are only 24 hours in a day.

3. Get enough sleep

The advice is as old as the world, but no less relevant: the reason chronic fatigue, lateness and inability to plan often lies in the banal lack of sleep. So a mandatory step on the path to time management should be the iron rule: 8 hours of sleep per day for a month - this will be enough to enter good rest into a habit. Close your laptop in time, put off talking on social networks, turn off your phone and TV and give your body the opportunity to sleep well - it will thank you with quick reactions, good memory and a clear mind.

4. Prioritize

This advice is especially relevant in a situation where one force majeure is replaced by another, and the to-do list seems endless. In such cases, a matrix can be useful that distributes all tasks depending on urgency and importance: draw a square and divide it into four parts; the first sector is intended for important and urgent tasks - they should be started first. “Urgent but not important” tasks are performed second, for “important but not urgent” it is worth allocating a certain period of time regularly, and “not urgent and not important” tasks can be safely postponed.

5. Learn to "eat frogs for breakfast" and "eat the elephant in pieces"

As a rule, we are forced to postpone things for later (or, as it is fashionable to say now, to procrastinate) we are forced by tasks that are either unpleasant or too large-scale: they are simply scary or too lazy to take on - that's why we postpone for weeks phone call important, but such a difficult client, we do not dare to start working on major project and shifting from place to place documents that have been demanding our attention for a month now. The famous time management expert Gleb Arkhangelsky in his book recommends treating unpleasant things like “frogs” that you definitely need to “eat for breakfast” - that is, deal with them first: this will save you from constant feeling anxiety about work not done. As for big things, Arkhangelsky advises treating them like elephants, which should be “eaten in pieces”, daily including a large or at least a tiny “piece of an elephant” in your schedule.

6. Don't be afraid to ask for help

Or, in business terms, delegate more often. It is known that perfectionists most often suffer from the inability to plan time and chronic time pressure, believing that no one is able to cope with the work better than themselves, and therefore they are always overloaded, tired and do not have time. Think about what of your household chores can be entrusted to other family members and what tasks you can involve subordinates (if you have any): if your husband takes over washing the dishes, and one of the employees should draw up contracts, as you have here there will be an extra couple of hours in a day.

7. Eliminate Time Wasters

Or at least set a limit for them. For the sake of experiment, daily record in your diary the number of minutes spent thoughtlessly reading posts on social networks, discussing gossip with uninteresting people or watching TV shows that are not very informative. The result may surprise you: we tend to underestimate the power of our habits and fail to notice how ruthless time wasters rob us of valuable minutes and even hours. The best way take them under control - set strict limits (for example, no more than 30 minutes in social networks daily).

Take just 10 minutes of your time for self-development and find out how to keep up with everything and be on top!

It has an amazing ability to stop in place when we are doing something boring and unloved, and, literally the next day, fly at a speed of several hundred kilometers per second if we have fun or need to cope with a lot of things ... unfortunately ...

Few people would not want to acquire such a valuable ally and learn.

So imagine that there are people who have tamed the clock and they no longer need to worry about how to do everything.

So, how do you learn to be successful?

I once had former colleague at work - Nastya.

Not stupid, active, executive - a good, in general, girl.

But she has one huge drawback that hinders both her and her entire team: lack of punctuality in doing things.

Zapara is actually her middle name, and neuroses from piled up tasks are constant companions.

At the same time, it cannot be said that she is just lazy and does not want to do anything, this would explain Nastya's situation.

She is constantly busy with something and seems to be trying to do everything, but something is always missing to do everything!

I believe that the main problems of my colleague are due to the fact that she:

1. Doesn't know how to plan his time.
2. Constantly distracted.
3. Unable to focus on one thing.
4. Doesn't know how to lead The Diary success.
5. Takes on more than he can handle.

How to do everything: the beginning!

Learning to complete all tasks on time is as simple as programming your life for success.

People do not even realize that most of the problems and obstacles in their lives they create themselves.

It takes only a little effort and everything will turn out even better than you expected.

Of course, sloths who do not want to work on themselves will never understand how to do everything and will continue to wallow in the unfinished business with no hope of seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.

As you know: "You can win any battle only by choosing the right weapon!"

So the taming of time you need to start with the purchase of a beautiful notebook, pen and clock.

The expense is small, but the benefits of this acquisition will be huge.

“First, imagine that an hour is not just a unit of time. It is a commodity that can be exchanged for money, education, pleasure, health, and other resources. All you have to do is figure out what you need.”

But most importantly, you must understand that a person who feels tired and unhealthy, in principle, will not be able to work productively.

Therefore, take as a rule:

Get enough sleep:

the cherished rule about 7-8 hours of necessary sleep was not invented by fools.

Healthy food:

not only that it is tasty, but also that it is useful.

Fresh vegetables and fruits should be regular guests on your table.

Exercise:

physical activity not only improves immunity, but also gives a charge of vivacity.

To-do lists are everything!

I hope you have already bought a beautiful notebook and pen to keep your success diary?

So: get into the habit of writing in the evening or in the morning to-do lists that you plan to finish during the day.

Moreover, do not write them from the bulldozer, but next to each item indicate the time required to complete it.

Did you do the job?

Cross him off the list.

You can also create separate lists of global plans for a month or a year.

Before you finish the work, fight the desire to get into Facebook or the UNIAN website, drop a phone call from a girlfriend, refuse a mug of coffee.

All this can be done during the break.

Don't take on more responsibilities than you can carry!

Each person has a limit of his abilities: for someone it is very small, for someone it is very impressive.

Your job is to define yours!

Colleague Tanya can write 5 articles in a day, and you only 3, no matter how hard you try?

Then you should not beg the boss for 5 tasks, then sit until midnight, not have time, get nervous and get a “beat” the next day.

Better complete your three tasks on time and with high quality!

Keep order in the workplace!

Even if your workplace- own apartment, no need to turn it into a dump.

Firstly, unnecessary items are distracting, secondly, you spend time trying to find something you need in these rubble, and thirdly, the mess dampens and does not allow you to tune in to the working mood.

Optimize your workflow.


Every business, including homework, can be simplified and reduced in time to complete it, if you show a little ingenuity.

Here, for example, the files that I need to work on a daily basis are copied to a separate folder, although all electronic documents I store in thematically-chronological folders.

Use modern gadgets.

When preparing dinner, you probably gladly resort to the help of a food processor, multicooker, electric meat grinder, etc., and do not do everything manually, wasting your time and energy.

The same principle must be followed in any business!

Reward yourself for success.

They did one thing quickly and efficiently - drink tea with a delicious cake, another - look at the news feed on Facebook, the third - go for a walk, etc.

Don't get stuck in one place.

People can bring themselves to hysterics in search of perfection they understand only.

Remember that the best is the enemy of the good.

Do not dwell on some stupid ideals if it slows down your progress.

Don't accumulate unfinished business.

Forget about the phrase: "I'll do it tomorrow!".

Today is today, and you must complete everything planned before midnight.

If you put something off every day, then sooner or later an avalanche of unfulfilled tasks will cover you.

Don't be afraid to ask for help.

Sometimes, due to pride (or stupidity?), we are afraid to turn to even the closest people for help.

If you do not have time, then ask your mother to cook dinner, your husband to pick up the child from the garden, your friend-colleague to answer a call from a client, etc.

from the famous video blogger Pavel Bagryantsev:

“How to keep up with everything and manage many projects at the same time?”

You can try them all and choose the most optimal for yourself, you can combine these tips, or you can come up with something of your own.

The main thing is to start acting, and not just moan every day: “ How to do everything?!».

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It seems that the more we work, the more we should be able to do. But for some reason this formula rarely works. It's just that an adult cannot do the same job for more than an hour and a half. After 90 minutes, or even earlier, his brain will get tired, his efficiency will drop, and after another couple of hours he will notice with irritation: “I’m exhausted, but I didn’t have time” ...

This state is well known to those who are trying to redo all household chores in one weekend. At the same time, it doesn’t matter what exactly we do: young mothers who give their strength to the family get tired no less than CEOs large companies. And time is not enough for both. According to business coach Alexander Belanovsky, there is a very simple solution to the problem called “done, did, and did nothing”.

Change your activity every hour and a half

The first step to success is to break the working day (no matter where it takes place - in the office or in your own apartment) into two-hour "blocks". An hour and a half is work, half an hour is a break. The main thing is to switch completely so that the brain does not confuse rest with an additional portion of work.

For example, if you have been sitting at the computer for 90 minutes and are going to “recuperate” by talking on social networks, there will be no effect. The brain simply does not understand how "rest" differs from shock work. nervous system need to switch from one activity to another.

Rest properly

The second misconception: “If you don’t work, then you have a rest.” If this myth were true, there would be no jokes that after the weekend we need another weekend and Monday is the hardest day of the week. If we "rest" at the computer, in shops or doing household chores, the body continues to accumulate fatigue. And one fine moment comes " emotional burnout"- a state when there is neither time, nor strength, nor mood.

Alexander Belanovsky believes that this can be avoided by arranging an unusual vacation from time to time. For example, to leave for one day on an excursion to another city and turn off the phone. Most likely, after an hour spent in seclusion, you will certainly have a strong desire to go online or call ... anyone. Endure this impulse: it only says that the body really needs rest. By evening, you will feel that in just a day you have gained strength and become calmer.

Don't try to do several things at the same time

Other common misconceptions: “In order to do everything, you need to do everything at once” or “Everything needs to be done perfectly”. What happens to our brain when we try to solve several problems at the same time? Remember what happens to your computer when you download a movie and search for information on the Internet at the same time: they start to “slow down” or “freeze”.

As for perfectionism, no task can be done perfectly with this approach, and if you waste yourself on trifles, you are unlikely to have time to do something important.

What actually takes time?

But let's move from myths to reality. “Tracking where your precious minutes are running away is not so difficult,” says Alexander Belanovsky. Take a piece of paper and write down all your tasks for the day on it. Even the ones you don't think are important. Specify the time devoted to each of the cases. The list will look something like this: sleep - 7 hours, breakfast - 20 minutes, meeting - 2 hours.

Now divide your activities into six groups:

• Job;
• essentials: cooking, sleeping, showering, gymnastics, grocery shopping;
• “nothing”: browsing social networks, waiting for transport, commuting to work, queues at government offices;
• routine: checking Email, paperwork, washing dishes, cleaning, laundry;
• pleasant: recreation and entertainment;
• gaining new knowledge: any activity where you learn something.

By grouping things in this way, you will understand what you are really wasting your time on. Usually we are missing the most important thing because of “nothing” and routine. One lives in social networks, the other gets to work through the whole city, the third has too many household chores.

“Under the guise of lack of time, too often, there is a lack of strength and health: someone plays on the computer because he is nervous - and someone is“ lying ”on the couch so as not to get sick from overexertion,” sums up Alexander Belanovsky. - It will take perseverance and ingenuity to eliminate the real cause of "problems with time". But if a solution is not found, there will still be no time and energy.”

Are you surprised that some people get everything done on time, while others rush from task to task without even knowing where to start? Obviously, the former have learned to manage their time competently, which is one of the most important skills in adulthood.

How to get it all done...

In concept, time management (time management) is not too complicated, but in practice it requires some effort, especially the initial investment of time that is required to organize and set the right priorities. Taking a few minutes every day to organizational issues, in a month you will certainly notice that you have begun to complete all the planned tasks.

1. Set goals

So you can see where to go in this moment. These are not necessarily super-important life goals like “I want to become president,” the banal “I want to finish work by the weekend and get out to the country” is also a kind of goal, and quite real, too.

2. Prioritize

In order not to miss something important, you must first highlight it among other things. The whole working day can be divided into necessary, important and necessary. Things must be done in the same order. You can draw a line between them by asking yourself the following questions:

1. Why am I doing this?
2. How can I use this to achieve my goal?
3. What happens if I don't?

3. Keep a to-do list

How to do everything in a day? Make a to-do list! It will remind you every minute of what you have to do at the moment and will not let you relax. The tasks in the list should be divided into small components so as not to waste time thinking in the process. No need to try to remember everything - it's better to trust modern technology. A banal electronic calendar will become an indispensable thing on the way to the effective use of time. Do not forget to highlight the most important tasks in it.

4. Focus on just one task

In an effort to do everything at once, you expose yourself to the danger of complete failure. Doing several things at the same time is very dangerous, because the brain cannot think about many things at the same time. It's better to do less than to do a lot. It has been proven that multitasking takes 20-40% more time.

5. Remember the deadline

Setting a time limit for each task is very important - it will not allow you to postpone things until tomorrow. In conditions of limited time, the brain works much more efficiently, realizing that it is now or never.

6. Do the hard things first

Admit it, it is much more pleasant to work when you know that in the future the tasks will not be so difficult and it will be easier to cope with them if you have already gone through all the circles of hell. But to work, realizing that there is an ocean of unfulfilled hard work ahead, is psychologically difficult. First the whip, then the stick.

7. Wake up early

How to manage to do all the things scheduled for today? Try to get up early. Scientists have proven that the morning hours for work are the most effective. Sunrise is the perfect time to start your day. It's great if the rays of the sun fall directly into your window, so they will be a natural signal to rise. Perhaps it sounds strange, but after a few days of adaptation, you will easily wake up on your own without the need for an alarm clock. And try to go to bed no later than 23:00 - at this time the body recovers much more efficiently and quickly.

8. Get rid of negative energy

It is difficult to work when something annoys you, so always get rid of negative energy- this will save time spent on whining and dissatisfaction. There are enough ways to throw negativity out of your body: screaming, hitting a pillow, breaking dishes, etc.

9. Set aside time to rest

If you do not rest, the body will not actively work - it needs time to recover. Fatigue interferes with the normal functioning of not only the body, but also the brain. No need to neglect a lunch break or other opportunity to escape from exhausting work, but it is worth keeping everything under control, avoid deviations from the plan.

10. Follow the daily routine

Going to sleep and waking up at the same time is very important, even if you have the weekend and so want to stay in bed for another hour. This will bring down your The biological clock and you will have to adapt again. This is one of the reasons why Mondays are so hard for us. Instead of sleep, it is better to spend time walking or exercising.