Everyone must have experienced how time passes very quickly, even though from the past until now time has never changed, it is still one day 24 hours.
In matters of work, doing college assignments, or plans that have been designed in such a way as to achieve the target and use the time as much as possible because wasting time is a very bad thing. That is why we need to do time management so that the time we spend is really useful.
Understanding time management can be interpreted as a method or way to utilize and manage every part of the time in doing activities that have been planned and must be completed within a predetermined time period. The main goal of time management is to do work effectively and efficiently.
Therefore we need time management so that the days we go through are not wasted, by doing positive things and changing the habit of being lazy to be more productive. Here are tips for increasing productivity:
1. List time-To Do List
From now on, try to list everything that has the potential to be a waste of time. By making a To Do List, it means writing down what we want to do from the most important things to the unimportant things. For example, write down our activities starting from waking up, taking a shower, having breakfast, going to work/school.
2. Limit social media on smartphones
It's hard to avoid the temptation not to open social media. Especially if we put social media icons on the smartphone home screen. The tips, hide the social media application icons that we have installed on the smartphone. Never put it on the home screen or the main page of the smartphone.
Also turn off the social media notification feature so that there are not too many annoying notifications when we work. But there are some people who use social media as entertainment, if we feel we can't be away from it, then give it time to play it on a 'given time' note because smartphones also provide services to minimize the use of social media.
3. Set daily goals to stay focused
Every turn of the day, we also have other tasks to do. To stay productive, we must always focus on every task we are working on. One way that we can do to be able to focus is to set daily targets.
If necessary, use the help of a reminder application to remind us not to forget to do what we should be doing today.
4. Complete more important tasks first
Be wise in prioritizing tasks, by choosing tasks that are close to the deadline, between:
Important and urgent
Immediately do this task.
Important but not urgent
Decide when this task is to be performed.
Not urgent and not important
Leaving this aside for later.
Urgent but not important
Do this task if possible.
5. Take advantage of waiting time
We are lucky that we live in the smartphone era. The right use of smartphones will make us very productive people. On some occasions, we may be required to wait. Whether it's waiting for your turn to check with the doctor or waiting for the train at the station. So that it is not wasted, take advantage of waiting time to pay off the tasks that we should complete so that it feels light. Or to write down brilliant ideas that suddenly appear. Take advantage of smartphones for more positive things.
Successful people are people who can use their time with useful things, from the tips above, there are many benefits of time management, one of which is increasing productivity, increasing self-discipline and being more responsible.
