Fragmented time management
In our daily life, we can
always hear people complaining that they are running out of time. Indeed, most
of our tasks incurred will come with a time limit. For instance, the deadline
of the assignment, the preparation for next day’s meeting or the comprehension
of related knowledge before the exam. Since everyone in this world would only
have 24 hours per day, it is critical for us to efficiently manage our time. In
my perspective of efficiency, we need to achieve maximum volume of objectives
in the given term, while maintaining a reasonable level of quality.
One of the tricks is to
utilize the fragmented times. Between the conjunctions of our daily activities,
there are these scattered times existing. Generally, these times seem trivial
and are ignored by people. To illustrate, the commute time on the tram, the
waiting period while we are doing laundry, and that five minutes before the
lecture starts. This period can be less than fifteen minutes, hence people do
not even realize it. We tend to treat it as our leisure time, which is wasted
on the smart phone. However, if our schedules are full and still feeling that
it is hard for us to complete all the tasks, we should try to allocate some
objectives on these smart phone secessions. Once we have done that, we would
realize this small change triggers a huge difference on our efficiency.
Certainly, fifteen minutes is relatively short, but the power of accumulation
should never be underestimated. In fifteen minutes, we can read two financial
news, remember five new foreign words and perform several transactions on
security markets. We may predict how many more objectives we may complete
everyday, if we simply withdraw our sight from the mobile phone’s screen.
Although the segmented time
participation will generate more hours for us to distribute on tasks, it has
its defectiveness. Those works that need to be done in a well-structured and
whole pieces of time should not be allocated in these scattered periods. In my
opinion, we should practice those tasks with low requirement of consistency in
these periods.
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