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How to manage anxiety and self-doubt
Strategies for setting realistic goals
The importance of self-compassion and self-care
Adaptation
Often, we become aware of a task that’s a higher priority than the task we’re doing. Too often, we reflexively decide to defer the higher-priority task because we want closure on the task we’re working on. Or we defer the more important task because the current one is more pleasurable. Or we get distracted by a thought or by someone. That can tempt us to take a minute to indulge the distraction. Alas, too often, the distraction lasts far longer than we realize. The goal is to consciously, not reflexively, decide whether it’s wise to complete your current task before reprioritizing.
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Awareness
The Short-Time Guessing Game: Set the timer for two minutes. Check it when you think it’s been 30 seconds and again at 90 seconds. Repeat that until you can always get fairly close.
The Longer-Time Guessing Game: For your next few activities, write your estimate of how lo...
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Arrangement
Some of my clients have adopted my system for keeping track of to-dos. My time-sensitive to-dos (for example, client appointments) go in my week-at-a-glance calendar. Anything I want to do in the next day or two but needn’t be done at a specific time goes on a 3x3 memo cube. Both sit on my desk, ...
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Respect
Time-management problems might derive from insufficient respect for the victims of their poor time management.
Most people don’t intentionally disrespect their victims. Usually, they just haven’t written it on their to-do list or don’t check the list often enough. Or they enjoy trying to c...
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Components of good time manager
A Harvard Business Review summary of the literature on time management describes three components of the good time manager:
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Significance of managing time effectively
- Good time management requires competence in four key areas.
- Don't underestimate the toll that poor time management can take on one's career and personal relationships.
- Understanding the cause of one's poor time management can help identify the tips most likely to improve it...
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Awa
The Short-Time Guessing Game: Set the timer for two minutes. Check it when you think it’s been 30 seconds and again at 90 seconds. Repeat that until you can always get fairly close.
The Longer-Time Guessing Game: For your next few activities, write your estimate of how lo...
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- Define clearly what is the task and the actions that compose it.
- If the action takes less than two minutes, do it, although it is not an urgent or high-priority task; if not, defer it o...
Why Focus Matters
Studies show we can work for an average of just forty seconds in front of a computer before we’re either distracted or interrupted. (Needless to say, we do our best work when we attend to a task for a lot longer than forty seconds.)
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Default options
Deciding is too much effort so we’re likely to just stick with the default or safer option if it’s already been chosen for us.
When we get offered too many choices, the same thing happens—we shut down, unable to decide. Often, we end up simply choosing anything, just to get the proc...
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