Timeboxing is limited to a period of time to do one thing, one type of time management. For example, each lesson in school is fixed in about an hour, it also is timeboxing, and if we go to the library to read, we rarely limit the time, that is more open-ended. According to my own experience, give yourself a limited time to do one thing, because it will be more sensitive to time, then it will more efficiency. Here's a few of the recipes for how to use timeboxing:
- Start a difficult thing
Write an article, make a project, or think about a business idea, we need a lot of time and brain energy, and our general method is: delay. For example, if we want to write an article, we will say to ourselves, "Let me finish a little thing on my hand and then make a lot of time to write the article seriously. “But the result is that the most of time will be used for completing all kinds of small things, so that, when the time is less, we can give excuse ourselves, because of not enough time, so wait for the next time again.
To solve this procrastinate problem, we can give ourselves a short time, such as twenty minutes, the goal is complete some of the things to do, for example, outline, or even only list a few points to be written of article. Remember that you have to respect this set of twenty minutes, in this period, we cannot do other things, cannot think of other things, and after twenty minutes, we can follow our agreement, let ourselves to do other thing, or even eat Some snacks to their own incentives.
All things are difficult before they are easy, and this "difficult" will let us do not want to start. As long as we make a commitment to ourselves, the difficult time is only 20 minutes, We will have more courage to start.
Let all chores to be completed together
There are many chores in life which is not difficult to do, but have to do, such as housework, email in work, call people to repair home appliances, monthly payment and so on. Set these things in a time to complete, such as for the private things can be Saturday morning, and for the chores of work, to completed in the half an hour of morning, complete it together, then we no need to use other time to have trouble for these trivial things. In this method, whether limit time or not, it can be follow our own preferences, the important is to complete all chores together, to remain the time for other things we like.Speed reading
I have not train successfully. But I know that there is a speed of reading practice is to limit ourselves to complete a book in twenty minutes, the pressure of time can make ourselves more attentive, easier to get most of knowledge in a book in a short time.Time limit to complete
It is the most commonly used timeboxing, to limit ourselves in a period of time to complete one or more things. Daily To-do list is one kind of, limited in a day to complete a few things. My experience is sometimes workable, and sometimes does not work, mainly because I know that I have other time to do those things, so that I procrastinated. The key to this method is do not put many things in a period of time, it is suggest to have little spare time.Split a major event
We always have something to do, such as learning foreign language. These things take a lot of time, and usually we will plan a month or two months after the month, such as "this year to apply foreign language course in May to June every Saturday and Sunday". If it is to be like these people need to have other people, it would have to do so, but if it can do our own, such as to complete a thousand pieces of puzzles, to learn a thousand words, this planing will have more than 90% failure rate! The best way to do this thing is to start from this week, for example, every Saturday morning 10:00 to 12:00 (a little bit shorten can also be), or 15 minutes before going to bed every night. So that do not give opportunity to yourself to procrastinate, work hard for our own goals every week, to see our progress every week , life will enrich a lot.Reserve time for the most important thing
The important thing is actually something that we like. We have a lot of time is not control by us every day, Gradually, we do not know what life is for. As Buffett said, do not saving up sex for old age. In daily life, every day, or every week, to find some time to do the things that we like, such as building models, cooking, reading a favorite book, watching a film, and so on. Mark it on the Calendar, so as not to forget, and because of mark on the calendar, you can give your own reasons to enjoy life in this period, no other thing you need to do. Therefore, you will have a time only belong you every day or every week, life will be happy a lot.
Sum up
In addition to use pressurization time to make ourselves to increase the efficiency of the work, I think Timeboxing is mainly to assign time to do the things. Many things as long as put enough time then it will be completed, however, due to many thing is uncertain, such as uncertain time, uncertain progress, we choose to procrastinate, that is equal to the assign zero time to things, it will never be able to do things. The Timeboxing gives us the method, so that we do not have to set a time to complete, but set a time to do, as long as we put some time on the thing that we would do, the thing will be completed eventually.