Respecting Time

It is essential to comprehend the difference between being busy and being productive.

• When you’re busy, your mind is distracted by your to-do list while bouncing from one task to another without concentrating on anything.
• When you’re productive, you have a program for venturing into everything you need to do, and you can focus on your goals.

By using your time effectively, you will be productive and able to achieve your daily tasks and more meaningful life goals. Respecting your time goes beyond creating a daily planner or documenting an ongoing to-do list that only seems to get more extended daily. Respecting time is the capability to set objectives, focus, manage, prioritize, communicate and delegate. Everybody gets the same twenty-four hours per day. Effectively using that time can represent the distinction between getting things done and racing to keep up.

The best practices to respect your time and make better use of it are:

• A time audit: Use a Timer There may be a distinction between how you think you consume your time and how you spend it. Does it often happen that you ask yourself where the time went at the end of the day? Perhaps you wonder why you didn’t manage to achieve as much as you’d expected you would. You may be wasting more time than you admit.

Utilize an app for a timer set to go off every thirty minutes. When the timer goes off, document what you’re doing; you must be honest. Recognize where your time went if you’re checking social media or sending messages to a friend.
Assign the timer for another thirty minutes and repeat the procedure until the end of your day. Review how you spent your time and identify how frequently you were detected doing something that wasn’t productive.

Perform an audit every day for a week to get a helpful recap of how you’re spending your time; that way, you’ll know exactly where you have to make adjustments. Once you identify what’s distracting you, it’s time to block that. For instance, if social media is your downfall, try a productivity app that blocks online distractions.