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To Stop Wasting Time, Know Thy Time

If you don’t measure your time, it’s tough to stop procrastination or improve your productivity. Because if you want to manage your time better, you have to know where it goes first.

The specific method you use for your activity log doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is that you want to keep a record for at least two weeks. Preferably, you want a whole month of recorded activities.

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How You Stop Wasting Time: Eliminate The Time-Wasters

That’s how you stop wasting time. Know where your time goes. Identify the critical tasks from the trivial tasks in your life. And cut the trivial, time-wasting, tasks.

Often, we start time-wasting activities, and they become habits. And if you don’t become aware of the pointless behavior, ...

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Results Matter The Most

Results Matter The Most

Practically, that means this: You might work for 50 hours a week, but if you don’t experience any growth personally, emotionally, or financially, you’re not effective.

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Identify The Non-Productive Work

Identify The Non-Productive Work

Go through all the recurring activities in your log one by one. What would happen if you would stop doing them?

  • If the answer is: “All hell breaks loose.” Don’t change anything.
  • But if your answer is: “Nothing would happen.” You’ve hit gold.

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A good night sleep and a helathy morning routine is what I work on constantly.

A productive life equals happy life. But we insist on wasting time, which makes it hard to live a productive life.

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Manage your time

Manage your time

If you want to manage your time better, you have to know where it goes first. 

How do you know your time? Keep an activity log. An activity log is exactly what you imagine — an hour by hour record of what you’re doing throughout the day.

Boom. That’s ...

How You Stop Wasting Time: Eliminate The Time-Wasters

That’s how you stop wasting time. Know where your time goes. Identify the critical tasks from the trivial tasks in your life. And cut the trivial, time-wasting, tasks.

Often, we start time-wasting activities, and they become habits. And if you don’t become aware of the pointless behavior, ...

3 Steps To Better Time Management

Improving your time management can be done in three simple steps.

Review - review how you spend your time now for at least a week. Any more than 5 minutes spent on an activity should be recorded.

Remove - remove or reduce any periods of unproductive time. This may be hours lost scroll...

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