Gabor Hosszu:
The power of time slots
One of the most common problems we have
is “not having enough time”.
But what if you actually
do have the time, but
you didn’t manage it well.
We all have 24 hours a day and
many of us achieve amazing things.
They manage their time better
than the rest of the population.
Let’s see how we often end up
not having enough time.
When we plan to work on something we
often don’t go into
detail with our planning.
We just “want to work on it” without
answering questions like when, where
and how.
Here’s an example, think about when you tell
yourself that you going to
work on a project this weekend.
What is the actual chance that
you do your work?
If you are like most
of us you’ll achieve very
little or nothing at all.
The reason for this is most of us has a
problem with personal accountability,
the ability to keep the promises
that we make to ourselves.
How we end up not having enough time?
This next productivity hack will help
you with this exact problem.
It is simply called The Power
of time slots.
Let’s go back to the previous example
of promising yourself to
work on a project on the weekend.
How specifically does this
promise sound? Not very, right?
How likely you’ll actually make progress?
Not likely. This weekend plan barely
qualifies as a plan, it is more like a wish.
To make your plan more powerful you
have to be more specific.
Answering questions like when, where,how, and for how long will makeyour plan much more impactful.
Listen to this: on Saturday I will work
2 hours on my project,
starting at 10 am and also another 2
hours in the afternoon
starting, at 4 pm.
Now this one is specific.
We, humans, are strange creatures.
Without rules, we tend
to underperform as much as we do in an
over-regulated environment.
A few rules are much
better than numerous
rules or no rules at all.
This applies working on a project as
well.
In the example above, we went
from 0 rules to a healthy amount.
Rules like this serve as a guide that
point us towards the next step
that we have to take.
Now on your Saturday when you look at
your clock and it says
9:45 your mind is going to think about
the weekend project
and soon you’ll have to work on it.
The power of time slots mentally
prepares you the start working.
Every time you schedule your work
there’s a much lower
chance of procrastination and
there’s a higher chance of
actually do your work.
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