RAD is one of the best productivity techniques, it helps you to have strategic laziness.

If you wonder what is strategic laziness, from the past people are saying you need to work hard to live a happy life, laziness will spoil you, it'll take over your opportunities, and it's very bad for you!But, in recent times, we are learning smart work is best than hard work. If you strategically planned all your work, there's no problem being a lazy guy. RAD basically means - Reduce, Automate, Delegate.

Strategic Laziness

You might be having a lot to do stuff, but ever thought all the tasks in your lists are needed?We might be taking a lot of projects, tasks, or things because they're interested at that time, but we might never look back into that, like our enrolled Udemy courses.Decide not to do things, try to concentrate on a few tasks first, or try batching like do some set of tasks at one week and another set for another week.

1. Reduce

Automate your tasks, since we are living in AI-driven world, it is so easy to automate our tasks. There are many SAAS and no-code tools that help to do your things simple.we are now able to send scheduled emails, earn passively by automating.

2. Automat

We are not pro's at all the tasks we have, we need to hire few people for this.It's better spend some money for freelancers than to take large tension and make mistakes.Figure out how much your time costs, figure out is only you needed to do this task and delegate.

3. Deleg

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Nobody wants to work more than they have to so in this video I'll be going over the Reduce-Automate-Delegate system (RAD for short), which in essence is a productive way for lazy people to get stuff done. 

Join the mailing list for my BRAND NEW "Productivity for Lazy People" course, coming Aug 2021 - https://aliabdaal.com/productivity-course

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00:00 Intro
01:13 REDUCE
01:21 Decide not to do things
03:36 Trying to feed 2 birds with one scone
04:35 Batching
05:32 AUTOMATE
05:48 Make passive income
07:21 Having a system of management
07:51 Use apps and tech
08:33 DELEGATE
09:16 Figure out the dollar value of our own time
10:24 Finding coaches and mentors

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Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory is one of the most prominent theories regarding motivation factors in the workplace. Psychologist Frederick Herzberg based his theory on some elements of Abraham Maslow's theory of motivation and needs. Herzberg’s theory broke down workplace needs into two categories:<ol><li>Motivation factors ensure employee satisfaction</li><li>Hygiene factors determine the basic level of stability and job security. Job dissatisfaction arises from a lack of hygiene factors.</li></ol>

Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory of motivation

The theory holds that job satisfaction and dissatisfaction are two separate categories with very different contributing factors. To ensure workplace harmony, employers must increase employee motivation factors and increase workplace hygiene.

Job satisfaction and dissatisfaction are distinct categories

According to Herzberg, the two-factor theory holds that motivational factors and hygiene factors need to be addressed independently. The primary hygiene factors:<ul><li>Pay. Low pay will quickly cause dissatisfaction among employees.</li><li>Benefits. An employer should ensure that the benefits they provide are competitive.</li><li>Job security. Employers should let employees know they are valued and that their jobs are safe.</li><li>Work conditions. Employers shouldn’t cut corners when it comes to the welfare and safety of employees.</li></ul>

Hygiene factors in the workplace

Factors that motivate employees to work often have to do with giving them a greater sense of purpose and significance in their current position.<ul><li>Recognition. Job performance improves when employees are praised and recognized for a job well done.</li><li>Autonomy. Employees feel motivated when they feel that they have an important job with a large degree of self-direction.</li><li>Meaningful work. Employers should strive to help employees see how their work contributes to a greater end product.</li></ul>

Motivational factors

Give employees more autonomy. The more that employees feel that they are responsible and autonomous, the greater the sense of achievement.Provide feedback. Let employees know how they’re doing by providing meaningful and constructive feedback.Improve working conditions. A simple way is to provide a clean, safe, and aesthetically pleasing workspace.Poll employees to get a sense of what motivates employees.Take a macro view of employee welfare. Employers cannot choose between motivation or hygiene. They must strive to improve both.

How to use Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory

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How to Use Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory to Boost Worker Productivity

Have a Will to Succeed, have a Vision, have a clear understanding of what drives you, what sparks you, what do you imagine when you look at the stars, what do you imagine when you see someone on the road, what do you imagine when you look at your Surroundings. Combine all these ideas and you may land upon a Dream of yours, a burning Desire.Then incoprate the fact that you are ready to Achieve it and also understand why you are worthy of it. And you would find a Will to Succeed.

A Will To Succeed 

Once you have a WILL to SUCCEED decide on what steps or what qualities you need to get to reach there, make a action plan, and execute onto it daily."Discipline makes the undoable doable"

Extreme Discipline 

Incorporating the above qualities makes you a Unique person but a person without Focus cannot achieve the Greatness found within a Man.So, black out everything else which doesn't contribute towards your dream, once this step is achieved successfully, a man has come a infinite steps near to his goal.

Laser Like Focus

Those who see the Invisible do the Impossible

How many times have you solved a problem by running away from it? Probably: Zero; but what if you see a problem directly in the eye without any fear? You might solve it in lesser time.But, in the long run you would become a Great problem solver, but not only that, you would become a man who converts Challenges into Opportunities. That is what the world Requires.

Being A Good Problem Solver

See your life as a House, you lay the bricks to make it, however a lot of people see Destiny and Fate as the factors related to this brick laying process, but this is not true, the Real Factors include: Hard Work, Determination, Grit, Focus, etc; Yes, the soil might be different for each one, but the bricks remain in your hands. Use them wisely.

Belief System

They say Life is a Long Road with a lot of Passengers , I say make your Own Path and travel with the Voyagers

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How to Achieve Success: 5 Ideas to Have for Attaining Success ⚡

Almost every student has done one of these bad habits that decrease our focus, concentration, and energy and makes it harder to study and learn. That's why here is a list of the bad habits we should quit:<ul><li>Cramming all night</li><li>Procrastinate</li><li>Multitask</li><li>Lacking a productivity system</li><li>Get easily distracted</li><li>Not taking breaks or rewarding yourself.</li></ul>

How to study better and lesser while quitting bad habits 

It can be really tempting to do cramming all night but trying to absorb big amounts of information in a short time is not effective. Plus, this practice has disadvantages:<ul><li>Increases your stress levels</li><li>Affects the ability to concreate</li><li>Reduce the amount of sleep  that you get </li></ul>Solution: <ul><li>Make a study plan and a review timeline</li><li>Start to prepare for exams at least 2 weeks before the test</li><li>Go to sleep earlier the day before </li></ul>

Don't study the night before the exam

Doing anything at the last minute is the worst thing we can do. There are several reasons why we may procrastinate such as distractions, fear of failure, and perfectionism. However, if we don't control our time somebody else will (social media I am looking at you!!).So, in order to get things done:<ul><li>Plan your activities ahead</li><li>Estimate how much time you will spend on tasks.</li><li>Time track what you do and you will see where your time is going. </li></ul>

Don't procrastinate!

It's something that may sound productive but it isn't, doing several things at the same time, decrease our concertation from the activities since we are switching from one to another. Solution:<ul><li>Concentration on one activity at a time.</li><li>It increases the level of focus and the quality of our work.</li><li>Time blocking can be helped to take similar tasks one at a time in a single session.  </li></ul>

Say NO to Multitasking!

It doesn't mare what type of system or method you use as long as it helps you stay organized.But, if you want some tips, your system should have these characteristics.<ul><li>A method to prioritize and manage your projects, tasks, and chores.</li><li>Plan events and be able to see them in a day, week, and month view.</li><li>Keep track of every activity that you are doing</li></ul>

Not having a system to stay  organized

When you are in the class, don't use your phone or watch TikTok videos. Can be really hard to not get distracted by the number of objects or the environment of your study space, but this activity has a cost.Solution:<ul><li>Turn off any devices that could distract you from the class.</li><li>Get prepared before the class (clean up your desk, read the slides or the textbook from the lecture)</li><li>Take notes on the most important things you hear during the class.</li></ul>

Don't get distracted during the class

Whenever you accomplish something like finishing the assignment, writing a paper, or reviewing the last lecture presentation; you should reward yourself.You can...<ul><li>Eat snacks</li><li>Watch a video</li><li>Call a friend</li><li>Take a nap</li><li>Drink a coffee</li></ul>Any activity that brings you joy should be enough to remind yourself that the effort you do is worth it.By the way, take breaks after tackling demanding tasks that take longer o finish, remember we need rest and gain energy. Please, do it! Believe you don't want to get burned out.

Reward yourself and take breaks

Here are some tips to quit bad habits that make it harder to study and focus

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  📄 How to study better while quitting bad habits

Work is a part of life. But most people don’t want work to be their entire life; they want time and energy to devote to their job and to their personal life—like their family, hobbies, and personal responsibilities. And generally, there are two ways to achieve that scenario—work-life balance or work-life integration.Work-life balance and work-life integration can both create space for your work and your personal life—without one overtaking the other. But each takes a very different path to get there.

Work And Life: The Premise

<ul><li>Work-life balance(WLB) is about creating clear, firm boundaries between your work and your life. </li><li>Work-life balance is focused on keeping life and work separately.</li><li>The concept of work-life balance has more structure and is more familiar to most.</li><li>Work-life integration(WLI), however, blurs the line between work and life. “Work-life integration focuses on blending both personal and professional responsibilities.</li><li>If you’re embracing the work-life integration model, you’re free to tackle personal tasks during work hours—and vice versa. </li></ul>

Difference Between Work-Life Balance And Work-Life Integration

<ul><li>Neither one of these perspectives holds more benefit across the board because people are different.</li><li>The model that will hold the most benefits will vary from person to person.</li></ul>Generally, people fall into one of two categories: segmentors or integrators.<ul><li>Segmentors fear that, without strong time and space boundaries, one side will take over the other...eliminating the balance they seek.</li><li>Integrators prefer fluid or porous boundaries between work and home.</li></ul>

The Pros And Cons Of WLB and WLI

It allows you to devote your full attention to your work or your life at any given time.When you're at work, you're really at work; you're not thinking about the things that you need to get done around the house or trying to squeeze in a trip to the grocery store in between meetings-which can help you be more effective and productive.And when you're done with work you can spend time with your loved ones.

Benefits Of Work Life Balance

<ul><li>Flexibility.</li><li>Work-life integration allows employees to coordinate their schedules and responsibilities in a more productive way.</li><li>Integrating work and life is not a choice.</li><li>People who embrace the integration model may be better equipped to succeed in today’s increasingly remote and hybrid work environment.</li></ul>

Benefits Of Work-Life Integration

<ul><li>The purpose of choosing one or the other is to find a sense of harmony between your work and your life.</li><li>Whatever option you choose, remember that the purpose is to help you lower stress, become more efficient, and increase your personal well-being.</li></ul>

Now You Decide

When it comes to work-life balance vs. work-life integration, it’s all about which model works best for you—and which gives you the work experience (and life experience!) that you’re looking for.

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Work-Life Balance Vs. Work-Life Integration—Which Holds More Benefits?

Social media and self-help books make the hustle culture look easy. They use the dopamine of positivity to make you think you can carry on non-stop without thinking. But our vision often doesn’t align with the result. The self-helps keep rubbing your face about how working hard can help you get the rich level of Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, but they don't tell that they only got super-rich in their 40s-50s. They did work hard and smart, but they had many failures and obstacles to overcome.

Hustle culture can lead to burnout

Self-helps are often repetitive copy-paste works from other books, but self-help can't copy-paste philosophy. Philosophy questions the subject to get a clearer answer instead of just touching the surface. They question the what, when, where, who, why, and how. Philosophy can save you from accepting blindly what people might call "great" or "you need to buy this". It can save you from blind preaching too.

Philosophy encourages critical thinking

“He (CS Lewis) taught me to look deeper into the millstone than simply the surface. Everything that comes across in life should be examined, not simply accepted. And that includes religion and personal problems.”

Once you have exposed yourself to some philosophy, it's easier to spot the many self-help ads or self-validating posts on social media. Most people on social media use it for the notifications or to be influencers by showing flashy or luxurious objects. But the truth is that if you want to spot the real businessman, you have to look for older people or people who are humble. From their stories, it is clear that they have been through a lot of stuff and had to swallow their pride.

Philosophy helps you to pull the reins of blind grinding and preaching

Hustle culture nearly killed me. It was destroying my mental health to the point I was criticizing myself relentlessly and becoming emotionally exhausted. I’ve been in the hustle culture for nearly 2…

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Philosophy Is The Antidote Of The Hustle Culture Poison

According to economist Daniel Hakneman, "Intuition is thinking that you know what you know without knowing why you know it, and high emotional intelligence can make intuitive decisions even more accurate." For example, scanning long checkout lines at the supermarket and deciding, without thinking too hard, which is likely to be the quickest. Or listening to someone speak for a few minutes and deciding if they are smart or not. Depending on your level of emotional intelligence, your intuition will be more accurate.

Intuition

WIthout knowingly thinking about it, your unconscious brain starts working on a problem or decision. When you then try to make a conscious decision, your brain compares that decision with the one it already made. <ul><li>If your unconscious agrees with your conscious decision, your brain gives you a reward response that feels good.</li><li>If your unconscious doesn't agree with your conscious decision, the decision seems logical but it doesn't feel right.</li></ul> Intuition is when you make the right decision and your body knows it. If you make the wrong decision, your body knows it but you often can't explain why.

How Intuition Works

A 2020 study found that people with lower levels of emotional intelligence are more likely to misread the signals in their bodies. They may mistake their body's "warning sign" for excitement. When you have years of experience and thousands of hours of practice, your intuition will be more efficient.

Add Some Emotional Intelligence

The better your emotional intelligence, the more likely you can accurately interpret your intuitive response. Ask yourself these questions to see if you should feel confident about a particular intuition."<ol><li>Is this a regular, predictable environment? When something happens regularly, the outcomes become more predictable.</li><li>Do I have extensive experience or practice? Accurate intuition comes from considerable practice.</li><li>Have I gotten plenty of feedback? Without feedback, you won't know if intuition was right or wrong.</li></ol>

When to Trust Your Intuition

Experience matters, but research shows high emotional intelligence can also make intuitive decisions even more accurate.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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How the Smartest Minds Use Intuition and Emotional Intelligence to Make Better Decisions, Backed by Science

Doing a great job means taking ownership over your work no matter how many balls you're jugging. It means picking the right stuff to focus on and then ensuring you get it done. The one thing that matters is our work's impact on our company, customers, colleagues, and professional development. The way to stay on top is to hold ourselves accountable to our higher-order goals while also paying attention to the close-up work.

Take ownership over your work

An OSR is a simplified list of things you are working on or could be working on over a given period. An OSR helps to find a global view of personal priorities and the ongoing status of each. There are three vital features of a good OSR:<ul><li>Show outputs only. Outputs are defined as shippable units work that you can check off once completed.</li><li>Include workstream status. Use a full spectrum of options: scoping ➜ in-progress ➜ ready to go ➜ shipped ➜ deprioritised.</li><li>Order by priority and impact and success measurement criteria for each input.</li></ul>

Ongoing Stack Rank (OSR)

Write down only three things you would be very disappointed to go into the weekend without completing. Place it on a post-it and move it around or stick it to different places throughout the week to make it easier to see what needs to be done.

"It's Only The Weekend When" Post-It

It's a collection of the various things you're proud of (screenshots, emails, pings, feedback, etc.) This scrapbook can provide a great raw data set for the things that give you energy and make you tick. Maintaining this can teach you what really satisfies you. Some things you think you really like doing, but they never appear in this document. Conversely, you may add things you don't think you care about, but you really do.

"What I'm Proud Of" Scrapbook

The snag log covers the things that bogged you down or you severely disliked. For example "Still can't get this query to run" or "that was a waste of time". This document helps to express annoyance, frustration, or disappointment. More importantly, it helps to identify broader patterns in your attitude towards work. You can recognise problems early before they turn into bigger issues.

Snag Log

This document is a list of things you learned, usually in bullet form. It can be things such as technical details, observations about working styles (“Doris reads emails closely, even if she doesn’t respond”), personal details you want to remember about colleagues (“Deep has a 3-year-old son named Leo”) or personal insights (“Jordan says that I’m usually the most optimistic voice in the room”). Date them so you can understand the timing and context.

“Today, I Learned”

Using your OSR to guide you, look at all the things you shipped and jot down some notes about their impact. Focus on observable outcomes. (What users and colleagues said or did as a result, what/how metrics moved.) This will become important during performance reviews but will also help to understand what work actually generates impact.

Monthly Impact Tracking (in your OSR)

Me-sat is evaluating your own satisfaction. It is similar to a company satisfaction survey, but you just turn the question on yourself. Some valuable exercises: <ul><li>Satisfaction Litmus Test. Score yourself between 1-4 on four core drivers of satisfaction: enjoyed it, got stuff done, progressed goals, learning. Average them together to create an overall "Me Sat."</li><li>Contribute to Your “<a href="https://review.firstround.com/the-ics-guide-to-driving-career-conversations-25-tips-for-purposeful-career-planning#1-start-with-these-four-lists">Four Lists</a>”. Things I love doing, things I’m exceptional at, things I hate doing, stuff I’m bad at.</li><li>Stop, Start, Continue Retrospective: Ask what you want to start, stop, and continue doing.</li></ul>

Monthly Me-Sat

Imagine you are writing a press release about all the things you shipped and the impact they are having. Things you might include in your press release:<ul><li>Headline</li><li>One-line Summary: imagine how someone would describe this to a colleague</li><li>Top 3-5 things you shipped</li><li>Where your time went</li><li>Key insights/learnings</li><li>Progress on metrics</li><li>Qualitative impacts. The observable indicators that you’re driving impact</li><li>Overall mood/sentiment</li><li>What you’re really proud of</li><li>What you’re not so proud of</li><li>Stuff you’ve got your eye on. Anything the broader organization did that you wish you could have been a part of.</li><li>A look ahead</li></ul>

Quarterly Personal Press Release

The best and worst thing about working at dynamic companies is what the company needs from you is constantly changing, which means your job is always changing. To help get more clear on how things are changing, re-write your own job description every six months. <ul><li>Describe the overall description of the relationship between the role and the broader company and its goal.</li><li>List responsibilities</li><li>The skills required to do a great job.</li></ul>

 Job Description

After tackling startup challenges from Stripe Press to Figma Education, Brie Wolfson shares her personal collection of templates — the docs that she's used to stay focused on the work that matters and true to her own career goals.

Ditch Your To-Do List and Use These Docs To Make More Impact

A roadmap is a visualized plan of what you want to build overtime. A great product roadmap communicates the ‘why’ and the ‘what’, whereas a product backlog communicates the ‘how.’

What is a Product Roadmap? 

<ul><li>They provide vision and direction to your team</li><li>They ensure all teams are on the same page when it comes to product priorities and provides transparency to all stakeholders. </li><li>They allow for feedback and consensus so all team members and stakeholders can buy in to the proces</li></ul>

Why Are Product Roadmaps Important?

A roadmap is akin to using a compass to figure out which direction you need to travel. Roadmaps provide vision and clarity but by no means are they inflexible or the answer to everything. A great PM has the ability to adapt to and/or foresee market shifts happening and make changes to their roadmap and strategy accordingly.

Can Roadmaps Change/Evolve? 

<ol><li>Evolving customer, business or industry needs may require changing up your roadmap in order to address them in order to get the most impact.</li><li>Analytics Data - You may think that the feature you’re working on will revolutionize the customer experience, but if the metrics show otherwise, you have to evaluate whether or not to go back to the drawing board or to scrap the idea altogether. </li><li>Early Stage Product Idea - Similar to evolving needs, early stage products can sometimes change strategy and direction overnight due to unforeseen circumstances (similar to a startup).</li></ol>

Few Reasons Why Roadmaps Can Change... 

There are many different ways you and your team can build a product roadmap. Each type of product roadmap serves a specific purpose that should match the needs of your team, stakeholders, and customers.<ol><li>Status-Oriented</li><li>Theme-Oriented</li><li>Outcome-Oriented</li></ol>

Types Of Product Roadmaps

A status-oriented roadmap allows everyone to better understand where the team is currently at, without necessarily committing to any kind of time frame. It’s organized into three columns that are based around the status of each deliverable—now, next, and later. It helps with prioritization. It also gives room for the next and later columns to change. Each item (typically an epic) shown on this roadmap should align to a higher level organization goal or strategic objective (e.g. Increase ARR by 5%).

Status-Oriented Roadmap

Theme-oriented roadmaps are a way to communicate the value that will be delivered to the users, without describing exactly what the team will deliver within that theme.This keep the team focused on solving the larger problem at hand, and anytime something else is brought up, it’s easy to ask one another if it fits into the theme of the current time period. Theme-oriented product roadmaps are quarterly based.Once your stakeholders align on those themes, you can nest epics beneath those themes. This allows team to get a better understanding of how the work ties to the larger business goals.

Theme-Oriented Roadmaps

Where it differs to theme-oriented roadmaps is what’s at the highest level: an outcome. An outcome is defined as “something that follows as a result or consequence.” By agreeing on the outcomes you will be driving toward, it leaves full power to the team to define the solution. Most stakeholders don’t really care about a specific feature you are working on. But, what problems the team is working to solve. e.g., an outcome that a product team may be working to solve could be, “Improve our day-7 app retention rate by 10%.” Then, it’s up to the team to figure out how to make that happen.

Outcome-Oriented Roadmaps

No matter the approach you choose for your roadmap, you’ll follow a general roadmapping process to get the ball rolling. <ol><li>Establish organizational and product goals with your team</li><li>Determine how your product can achieve said goals (this should be a group collaboration with your team)</li><li>Create a draft roadmap</li><li>Ask for feedback from your team</li><li>Get stakeholders’ buy-in to the roadmap</li></ol>

How to Build a Product Roadmap

A product roadmap is a visualized plan of what you want to build for your set of features over time.

communication

Communication

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Teamwork

Product Roadmap Guide: Why It’s Important And Types 

We often use the phrase “Time is Money” to depict the importance of time in our life. But, is it an accurate analogy? Because, unlike money, the time once spent can never be earned back. It is like a one-way road with no U-turn.

Time Is Money 

After a Life itself, time is the second most precious thing in the world. The best thing about time is that it is unbiased. You’ve got the same 24 hours in your day like any other living being. It changes for no one. And the worst thing about time is that it isn’t your friend. It doesn’t stop or slow down for anyone.

An average human life expectancy is around 75 years. This is the total amount of time you have which includes your schooling, higher studies, job, sleep, and all other daily chores. Though you can skip some of these activities, others can’t be skipped at all.Going to work is necessary to earn money and have food and shelter for your family. Sleeping is mandatory to stay healthy. Similarly, eating, cleaning, grooming, and parenting are also essential for a balanced life. All these tasks consume time. So, the question arises, <a href="https://link.medium.com/VaLGvvZIvpb">“How much time do you really have?” </a>

Oxford conducted a <a href="https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article-pdf/41/12/zsy182/27090248/zsy182.pdf">study </a>that shows that sleeping for 8 hours a day results in better cognitive abilities. That’s 25 years straight out of your total lifespan of 75 years. Now you’re left with only 50 years.

Working 8 hours a day for 45 years (from age of 20 till 65) costs 10 years in total. Watching television daily for an hour, using social media for 2 hours, and watching a movie twice a month combined together consume another 9 years of your life. You spend 6 years doing daily household work like cooking, cleaning, etc. Around 4 years are spent eating and drinking. Similarly, 3.5 years on education, 2.5 years on grooming, another 2.5 years on shopping, 2 years on daily travel, and 1.5 years on childcare. Sighs!

Eventually, you’ll be left with only 9 years ! That’s the total amount of time you have. No matter what you do, the time keeps on moving and you have to race against the clock to get things done. Those who do not understand the importance of time can easily be found wasting their time by doing things like <ul><li>Complaining about everyone and everything. </li><li>Repeating the same mistakes. </li><li>Comparing themselves with others. </li><li>Waiting for the right time. </li><li>Talking without taking any action. </li><li>Having fear of failure. </li><li>Lack of priorities. </li><li>Trying to please others and worry about their opinions. </li> </ul>

If you’re doing any of the above things, you need to stop doing it NOW. Time is limited. The days you’re living will never come back. Every second you’re spending is part of those limited years you’ve left. So, you need to optimize it in order to make the best out of each and every moment of your life. Time is precious; more precious than money. And that is why Time Management should be your topmost priority.

There are many ways to manage your time while increasing your efficiency. You can change your sleeping patterns, create a to-do list, set up reminders, or download time management apps. But if you do not understand the importance of time, all those things will be of no use.Time is the only thing you cannot buy or barter. No matter how much you’re willing to spend or what you have to offer in exchange. You can save yourself from the guilt of wasting it if you can learn to manage it now. It will not only help with a disciplined and successful career, but it’ll also help you to stay ahead in life

Time management starts with fast thinking and faster decision-making abilities. If you can think fast, you take lesser time to decide, and then you will have extra time in stock for yourself. Below are some basic things you need to remember to be a fast thinker: <ul><li>Always prefer time over money. </li><li>Narrow down your options. </li><li>Listen to your gut feeling. </li><li>Be prepared for the unexpected. </li><li>Differentiate between good and bad choices. </li><li>Remember indecision is the worst decision. </li> </ul>

Time Management 

We all want to make the best out of the 24 hours we get each day. Some people manage to be successful, happy, and contained in the same time period, while others struggle to find their aim and are unable to stay focused. This results in the wastage of the most precious thing that we have i.e. Time. Time management is a process of organizing and utilizing the available time in order to maximize productivity. Though time is limited, there’s no such thing as a shortage of time. In order to make the best out of the available time, you’ll need to manage it properly.

Benjamin Franklin said, “For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.” With distractions all around, it is now more important than ever to manage your time. Using 10 quick time management tips below, you can easily organize your time to achieve success in life.

<ol><li>Complete the most important task first thing in the morning </li><li>Use a calendar and add a “To-do” list to it. </li><li>Do not multitask. </li><li>Do not stick to small things. Move on. </li><li>Learn to say NO. </li><li>Do not answer each and every unnecessary call or text. </li><li>Track the time you spend on each activity. </li><li>Instead of waiting for inspiration, do it NOW. </li><li>Outsource unimportant things as much as you can. </li><li>Set up a time limit for everything you do. </li> </ol>

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