Does this sound familiar?
You are stuck in your cubicle during the day and desperately want to work on your own mini projects. The problem is, it's not easy to find the time after hours. If you have kids it's next to impossible.
This is exactly how I felt, I almost got sick because I was trying to burn the candle at both ends.
So what's the answer?
Well, I've found a killer time management tip, why not steal time.
I know that I'm not productive without a clear list of what I should be doing. So, when I actually make time to sit down I spend all my time "planning" not "doing". That's bad. No work gets done, I go to bed, get up, go to work and the whole process starts all over again.
To break this cycle I discovered there are pockets of time during the day that I can steal time.
Let's go over some time management tips to help us steal time:
If you smoke you have a smoke break right? I'd figure that equates to about 15 mins of small breaks over the course of the day.
Do you get a coffee? I easily spend 5 mins stuffing around the coffee machine or waiting for the coffee to be brewed and talking to people. Do this 3 times a day and you've used up 15 mins.
Do you take a lunch break? If you do there is probably 30 mins of time you can use.
Do you travel to work? If you train it in, there's 30 mins right there.
Just looking at those activities alone I found approximately 1 and half hours of time to steal.
Am I proposing you don't drink coffee, don't smoke and I don't eat? No of course not.
What I am suggesting is that you steal that time and multitask in it.
I'm referring to the activities that you can do "while" you're smoking, having coffee and eating lunch, activities like:
-- Start a business plan
-- Write notes about your mini project
-- Write dot point activities that you will do next time you get a dedicated chuck of time
-- Brainstorm and write down all the things you're interested in
-- Plan a second income stream
How do I do this?
Take a little note pad everywhere you go. Simply whip it out and make notes in your smoke break, in your coffee break and at lunch time. Here is another time management tip, forget your fancy phone, just use a plain and simple writing pad and pen it's quicker.
When you sit down to actually achieve something at home you can whip out your note pad with a readymade plan to refer to.
If you're desperate to escape the cubicle you need to take every opportunity you can to work on your own projects.
How will you use the extra time?
