How can you finish your working day before noon? This seems impossible is not it? And yet, some people arrive and they do not need to get up at four o'clock in the morning for that.
In fact, it's not as difficult as you think. If you add all those times when you see spots, are distracted or tired during the day, it is very likely that you will get 4 hours. If you eliminate those times have ended at noon will not be so complicated.
The problem, of course, is to arrive to effectively eliminate this lost time. This is the complicated part. However, modifying some elements of your approach to daily work, you can make this process easier.
1. Do not pay on time!
If you consider that the work begins at 9 am and ends at 17h, you will not be able to have everything finished by noon. When you evaluate with respect to time spent at work and not work done itself, you often end up procrastinating.
If reading the title of this article, you said "Pfft, as if it were possible." Then you're probably in this case. Finally at noon, you'd have the impression of cheating because you have to work 8 hours. Unfortunately, it is this attitude that drives you to procrastinate and to display your work for you it takes 17 hours previously.
The solution is to stop paying you on time. Of course, you can continue to bill your customers on time. Or your boss may continue to pay you wages and expect you to stay up to 17 hours. But this does not mean you have to pay this way. If you favor the accomplishment of tasks in relation to time spent working, you'll have a lighter schedule.
In a work "intellectual" is not the time to work that matters. As a writer, programmer, engineer, .. this is what you create that value. The customer does not care how many hours you spent on Facebook. Ultimately, this is what you have done matters to your boss or your customers.
2. If you work from home, never work from 9 to 17
If you work in a standard desktop (which reward punctuality and not the performance), it will be harder to finish your working day before noon. In his book "The workweek of 4 hours," Tim Ferriss provides valuable advice to convince your boss to let you work less if you're more productive. If the rules of the company you work for forcing you to stay attached to your office, I suggest you read his book. It is in English, but if you know the language of Shakespeare, it is really worth reading.
However, if you work at home, you have no excuse. Provide workdays of eight hours is a waste of precious hours of your life. If you change the way to evaluate your efforts, complete eight hours of work in three or four hours is possible. In doing so, you might even succeed in increasing the quality of the result of your work.
Some people can not understand this principle. Try to understand that the important thing is not the time to work but the result!
3. How you pay for the fine work
First tip: set your goals for the day and week. This is the key to end a work day at noon. The idea is simple, keep close to you two lists. The first list contains all the tasks you must complete during the day. Second, all tasks to complete that week.
When all tasks are completed the day, you're done. If it is 11 hours, congratulate yourself and go drink a good glass. If you do not finish in 17 hours, continue to work. Your day ends when tasks are completed.
This seems obvious at first sight and yet few people work like that. This happens more often is that a person ends at 11 o'clock and started working on another task. Or, after 5 or 6 o'clock in the evening, if not finished, they give up and postpone the next day.
Instead of focusing on results, most people try to keep their work within a framework of 8 hours. When they finished early, they add. When they finished later than expected, they drop and postpone to the next.
Maintain a list of things to do daily, gives you great motivation to eliminate distractions and stay focused.
4. The reason you can not add work
If you finish early, your instinct will suggest adding labor. However, you must resist the urge. If you yield, you would put the whole system in check. The method of "daily and weekly goals" works if you do not add work.
Imagine that you are a 400 meters hurdles. If your rhythm is good, you should be completely exhausted at the end of the race. You'll run as fast as you can about 400m.
Now imagine that you run a 400m hurdle, but when you pass the finish line, your trainer will run even cry over 200m. If your coach did that often, you will probably diminish the pace of your run, just in case you require to run more than 400m.
The method I put you here works the same way. If you always add 200m each time you finish earlier, you unbalance the system. Instead of keeping the pace and energy to perform a number of tasks, you rajouterezdes tasks and end up with days of 10 hours.
5. Calibrate your goals daily and weekly
You set daily goals can triple your productivity. But the drawback of this system is the lack of regularity. Some days will be short because you overestimated some tasks. Others will be very long because you have underestimated others.
The solution to this lack of regularity is not dropping back and the system is paid hourly. You just need to learn how to estimate the amount of work that requires each of your tasks. As with everything, you'll improve with time and practice.
6. Note on a paper your current level of productivity
If you use the system, the best way to estimate the time required for your job is to keep track of how much work you do now in one day. Quantify there thanks to a unit of measurement that you can easily use. If you're a writer, for example, you can record the number of words, lines, articles you write in a day.
Do this for one week. At the end of the week, group the different types of tasks you perform and assess the work you've done. This is your "productivity measure".
Then you can set your daily goals you based on this measure of Productivity. As that writing, you write may be 3 to 4,000 words per day. You can then set yourself to write this word count for each day of the week (if you do write, of course).
7. Why measure?
If you can put numbers on what you do for the moment, this makes the application of the method more convincing and concrete. Without the numbers, you may feel uncomfortable, as if you were a "pull-to-side" when you finish early and take your afternoon.
If you apply this system and you realize that you made 2 to 3 times more than before, then you will understand why it was measured.
8. Weekly Goals
The other component of this system is to maintain a list of goals for the week. It should not be as strict as the daily goals.
The purpose of this list is to ensure that whatever you want done is included in your list of daily goals.If you have a list of daily goals, certain tasks may be postponed until tomorrow. This means that when you plan your daily goals, you may not include some tasks that you add in the next list. It is a form of procrastination that can be combated by maintaining a list of goals for the week.
9. Finish your workday at noon
Finish his workday at noon, is that among other benefits of this method. The goal is not to finish everything at noon. This system must be used to withdraw a maximum of one day's work and to achieve the goals we have set.
This system can also be used to minimize the work that we do not. If we work because we must work and not because he wants to work, this system works well. It can complete a job that would avoid or postpone indefinitely.
Somehow, the productivity improvement is more obvious for the work that we do not. If you love your work, it is easier to focus on it without being distracted or without delay. The power system is presented here as it forces you to complete a job that you do not want to do.
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