How did you learn to manage your time?

Question

Time Management

The skill of managing your time is damn useful, the ability to not forget anything and do everything on time. especially the skill is necessary for the leader, since the leader who constantly fails in his place does not linger for a long time.
At one time, I was very fond of various reading books and other things on the topic, I tried something, scored something, scolded and did other nonsense. Nonsense mainly due to the fact that it did not bring me results. As a result, I came to a system of complete time control, in fact, I want to write an article about it if there is enough karma, but I would also like to know someone else's experience, ask questions and describe in the article as alternative ways of my methodology.

How did you learn to control your time?

Answer 1

Like it or not, but if you ask yourself such a question, then you will never be able to manage time. This is an illusion. Time will always rule you. And don't text me back. Don't waste your time! )

Answer 2

In order to understand what to manage, you must first understand where this time goes.
So the first thing I started doing was keeping track of my time. I opened an account on SlimTimer, started about 10 types of tasks there (type: work on project 1, work on project 2, chat with colleagues, go online, play table tennis) and during the working day when switching from one task to another , turned on the timer for the corresponding task type. A month later, interesting statistics began to emerge. After a couple of months, I clearly saw what I spend most of my time on.
After that, I didn't really have to manage anything. “Bad” indicators began to decrease on their own, and “good” indicators began to grow.
I had enough for about a year of using SlimTimer.

Answer 3

“I would like to know someone else's experience” - To the right of your question there is a section “Similar questions”, it contains at least a dozen similar questions - read, analyze, there is enough material for more than one article.

Answer 4

I began to control my time from the moment of a clear understanding that a day/one/two/week had passed, but in reality nothing had been done in my projects.
And then I decided to conduct an almost complete analysis of “what do I spend it on at all”. I found a program with an open license on the net - timeEdition ( www.timeedition.com/en/index.html ), scored it with customers / contractors for whom I work, and projects (now I’m starting to enter a little taxi for large projects). But there was bad luck - the lack of an acceptable time schedule for me in the context of “what” and “how much”. To do this, I wrote a small script that uses the same database file as the program and, after grouping, outputs in a format convenient for me, namely: copy.com/f6wV114dwRqy(the first graph is all data, the second is detailing by projects (detailing in blue from the main graph)) if anyone is interested in the script, I can share it.
And now, when there is data on which processes take how much time and what financial returns they give, it is easy to determine what should be paid more attention to and what should be abandoned. Overall, this gives me the opportunity to optimize my workflow.
As for current control, everything is banal for me - most of it is in my head, the rest is in my diary. At the moment I am looking for software for doing business, some kind of project manager ... so far I have looked closely at the microsoft project, but I do not actively use it yet.

Answer 5

As one familiar businessman said in the 90s, “get yourself a notebook.”
Seriously, a notebook, or a block of square leaves, or something like that. This is enough not to forget urgent / critical things + write down ideas. Convenient, fast, comfortable. Reminders/time trackers don't help most people. They only create the illusion of organization and accountability.

Answer 6

An interesting article about time management ideanomics.ru/?p=1340

Answer 7

Take and do your project. There is a whole piece of time - you code; time piece by piece -- marketing. And then you push out all the rubbish. That is, not by willpower, but by consciously understanding: I can do this piece or suffer a little bullshit.