Do you have the feeling that there is not enough time!
After reading so many time management articles, I still have unfinished work and unfinished business. I'm not willing to break one minute in half.
Why doesn't it work?
Because most time management articles are about how to use efficiency tools, how to be more executive, how to reduce procrastination, and how to improve self-control.
You can really use them to solve the most pressing surface needs of the moment. However, after mastering them, you will still feel the shortcomings.
It's like working overtime until you can't afford it. A cup of coffee or strong tea can quickly replenish your spirit, but what you really need is to fall into bed and sleep.
It's not enough to just think about how to do 24 hours a day as quickly as possible. That's just a rudimentary way to manage your time. You also need an unusual way to manage your time.
Good goods are not kept privately. They are all spread out to you.
1、 Cloning time: sell 1 time to n
In the TV series journey to the west, Monkey King can pull out three life-saving hairs from the back of his head, bite his teeth, endure pain, blow his immortal breath, and shout "change". A bunch of little macaques like monkey king jump out.
This may be the earliest "cloning technology" seen in literary works.
In terms of time management, if we can clone multiple copies of one time, isn't it a simple way to make more time?
How many copies of a time is cloned, and your unit time value is multiplied by how many times.
In the Internet age, time cloning technology has been realized, which is not the patent of the ox man. Because Internet products are easy to copy and the marginal cost is almost zero, ordinary people can also easily achieve it.
From another perspective, this is to create a product that can replicate and spread in different time and space.
For example, in the popular "get" column, Himalayan audio course and micro class sharing on various platforms, speakers only need to publish content in one time, and tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of subscribers will receive knowledge products respectively.
If the speakers give one-on-one lectures to the readers, they can circle the earth several times.
Some people say that I can't do such a thing as recording lessons. I won't give lectures.
So, words are always OK? Writing articles is just a way to turn one time into many.
Wan Weigang, a famous popular science writer, knows this well. In his book "never thought of it", he said that he was surprised to find:
I spent an hour writing this essay Since nearly 400 people subscribed to this blog through Google reading, as long as you read this article for more than 10 seconds, I dare say you won.
He compared the writing time of the article with the total time of others reading the article, and more obviously felt the pleasure of selling a piece of writing time into n pieces.
2、 Integrated value: make one thing n values
On huama street in Lijiang, Yunnan, almost every restaurant sells salmon. Many tourists to Lijiang will stop by.
The highlight of these restaurants is "eat more than one fish": fry the fish skin, boil the fish bones into soup, and make salmon sashimi from the fish meat - create a variety of tricks.
The same is true of time management. Try to make the completion of one thing drive multiple outputs. With the total length of time unchanged, the quality of life is still higher.
Stay at home moms often ask, "how do we achieve economic independence?" Ask this question.
This is because full-time mothers devote themselves to taking care of their children, "so busy that they almost don't have time to go to the bathroom", but they still hope to earn income on their own.
Its subtext is: "how can I make money while taking a baby?"
For these mothers, since bringing up children is a must and takes up a lot of time, wouldn't it solve the problem by adding economic value to it?
For example, while taking care of the baby, I also studied:
How to take good-looking photos of your baby with your mobile phone, how to insist on making complementary food your baby likes, how to read picture books vividly for your child, how to cultivate your child with positive discipline tools, etc.
Then teach your expertise to parents in need in the form of paid courses.
Some new employees in the workplace are facing the tasks assigned by the company and frown: "give me so much money and want me to do so many worthless jobs. Bah!" On the other hand, he was also distressed that he could not spare time to enroll in classes to learn new abilities.
As everyone knows, the thorny task at present is not only to fulfill the requirements of the boss, but also to exercise their own abilities.
In this way, a task has the dual value of "working for the boss" and "working for yourself", and it is pleasant and broad to work.
The value of a thing is like a piece of music. Only if the main melody is too boring, the multi play will not be monotonous.
According to my observation, many "great gods" are good at the results of anything, not sticking to a single dimension, but expanding to multiple values.
This is why I especially advocate thinking about "why" before doing something. If you can say a lot of "why do it" for a task that is about to start, you have given this thing multiple values, which is equivalent to earning a lot of time.
3、 Attaching importance to essence: tracing the source and cornerstone
Many years ago, I hired a master to teach me how to learn bamboo flute. I spent a long time learning long notes, vibrato, flower tongue, etc. it was so boring that I couldn't be any more boring.
At that time, I didn't understand why I didn't directly play the music by the teaching staff as soon as I came up, even the popular music of a dream of Red Mansions, which was not very difficult.
Later, I finally knew that this was a slow as fast process.
When doing things or learning new things, if we can grasp the source and cornerstone, understand first, get through the blocking, and speed up later, we will greatly save time in the future.
The basic skills taught by the teacher are equivalent to the foundation before building the house. If the foundation is unstable, the house may fall down in the future. After learning these contents well, the songs to be contacted in the future are just combinations and deformations, and they will be started soon.
We can't see any significant effect in a short time. When we reach a certain stage, we have a solid foundation. The "one" learned earlier can be used as "ten". Progress is amazing.
It's like a compound interest curve. The front section is flat, and then it rushes up to the sky.
If you don't catch the bottom routine, you will only be tired to death.
The source and cornerstone are more important and basic parts. What content belongs to this category?
In doing things, it is the common skills to achieve tasks and the core part of a task. The common skills to achieve tasks are the foundation on which to rely, such as project management, objective management, action management, etc.
The core part of the task is the "most difficult bone" of the task, such as the idea of writing an article.
In cognition, it is "meta law" and "mode of thinking". "Meta law" is the law that governs the laws in various fields of daily life, such as the "28 principles" and "compound interest".
"Thinking mode" is a general classical routine that can be used in thinking, such as "golden thinking circle".
In learning, it is "meta knowledge" and a specific concept. "Meta knowledge" is knowledge about knowledge. For example, to master learning methods, "brain neuroscience and cognitive science" are meta knowledge.
A specific concept is a clear guide to action. Only when it is clear can we start without being blinded. For example, if the word "deliberate practice" can clearly explain its meaning, it is easy to make an effect.
4、 One call to all: the effect of "one call to all"
Not long ago, a big guy released a course. In a short time, online friends rushed around to tell each other, brushed the screen in the circle of friends, and created the first phenomenal product this year.
At that moment, the big guy didn't need much effort to make many people willing to spend their time and money to help him promote. This is equivalent to using other people's resources to help you earn time. It has infinite power.
This "one call, one hundred responses" is brought about by influence. Creating influence is a very advanced way of time management.
In some units, the leadership position is not only under great pressure, but also difficult for families to take care of, and there is not a big gap with ordinary employees in terms of salary, but many people are still willing to fight for this position.
In addition to pursuing a sense of value, another reason is influence. When a leader has hidden resources, he can spend his subordinates' resources to do things, such as their time, expertise and contacts. All at once, his life has expanded a lot of possibilities.
You would say that it is impossible for all ordinary people to be leaders. It is useless for me to create influence. And so on. Influence does not have to be used in the workplace, but also in the family.
For example, parenting, if you have influence on children, and children are willing to cooperate with their parents to implement good habits when they are ignorant, as parents, you must spend less time in the future. Of course, you save your own time to do what you love.
How to get the effect of one call for all? The book "influence" provides six weapons: reciprocity, love, consistent commitment, social identity, authority and scarcity, which can be selected and used arbitrarily.
5、 Proper authorization: let professional people do professional things
Before the lunar new year, every household needs to clean the inside and outside, such as the range hood and the glass with the windows facing outward. Sometimes they linger for a long time, and only have back pain and leg cramps.
If the housekeeper comes to the door and sends out professional tools, it will be cleaner and shinier than if you sweat for 2 hours.
And the two hours you spend on it may enable you to read a book that changes your life. Which do you think is more cost-effective?
Some businessmen turn like a top every day, but you can still see perfect articles, interesting interactions and beautiful typesetting from their personal official account.
It is not difficult for you to reason that he must have some time management tricks. Yes, the article can be original, but you don't have to do it yourself—— They are people who know how to delegate.
In life and work, you don't have to do everything yourself. Letting go is a new start.
Now that the Internet is so developed, the efficiency of connecting to resources is hundreds of times higher than before. It's easy to find professionals in a certain field (such as housekeeping, errands, taxi software, etc.), so won't it save you time?
Put the time you squeeze into more important things, and the value of the harvest will shine.
Some tasks seem impossible to outsource, but in fact there are ways. Because a task can certainly cut out the core part and some non core mechanical operation parts.
The core part must be completed by you. You can choose to complete the rest of the non core part by yourself. You can trust people and let professional people do professional things.
6、 Paid learning: paid learning takes fewer detours
Now, taking part in a classic large-scale training can cost thousands of yuan every twoorthree days, which may cost a new employee a month's salary. I can't afford to think about it.
However, if you urgently need some high-quality courses, you can save several years after learning them. Do you think it is worth thousands of yuan? This is the so-called "spending money to buy time" - time is not renewable, and money is OK.
When I was just married, I was promoted to the "Minister of finance" of my family. I began to study investment anxiously and painstakingly, and even began to learn financial statements from 0.
In the end, I found that the best investment for young people is to invest in themselves first - to pay for learning knowledge.
More worthy of investment than any financial product is the young you.
If you are not a full-time investor, the rate of return of investing in yourself is definitely better than facing the K line all day.
Because the skills learned are irreversible, but the money earned from investment may be devalued. If the so-called investment is just speculation, every minute will leave you with nothing, and the time invested before will come to naught.
For paid learning, learners attach great importance to it because of the payment of tuition fees. The teachers who teach are generally more attentive, and the knowledge transmitted is relatively complete and systematic.
When encountering difficulties, teachers often gently click, and you will suddenly realize that with less time investment, you can also reap rich fruits.
Of course, it does not mean that free resources are worthless, but because in the era of information explosion, it takes a lot of time to filter and sort out the knowledge of the system.
What if you can't afford the training? There is still a way! Some trainings are often practical courses extracted from one book or several books.
In China, a non fiction paper book costs as little as twenty or thirty yuan, and as much as fifty or sixty yuan.
Such a little effort can reap the author's research achievements for several years or even decades. What a bargain! If you read e-books, you will save more.
In the Internet age, there are other forms of paid learning, such as the rise of various knowledge payment platforms.
It is easy for you to find professionals who need to consult. Under their guidance, you should avoid detours and avoid falling into the pit. Isn't that spending money to buy time?
7、 Keep an eye on the goal: throw time at the long-term goal
When I first learned to ride a bicycle when I was a child, I always liked to look down and see how I stepped on it. The adult said, "how can I learn this? You should look forward and look away to grasp the balance!"
The same is true of time management. Urgent matters of work and life are like gourds that are pushed into the water and then float up. There are always gourds that can not be pressed.
Except for industries that are very agile in responding to changes, these "gourds" are often caused by our failure to make a plan in advance.
For example, you didn't speculate in advance what kind of ability and quality you need in a certain period of time, didn't speculate that there might be risks at a certain point, and made plans to deal with emergencies, etc.
Until time approached, it was a mess.
You can play as much chess as you can see.
If every once in a while, we can set goals for things that may need attention in the future, make good plans, and lay out in advance, when the future comes, everything will be stable and orderly, without anxiety or worry.
To allocate today's time to things that can create more time for tomorrow is the so-called "living in the future".
What is more unparalleled is that the pattern of seeing has crossed the length of individual life and is viewed from the time dimension of human groups.
For example, to create a new cause of great value to the society, and write a masterpiece that has never been done before and will never come again.
This time management is so powerful that the time obtained by oneself transcends the limitations of individuals and has been handed down through the long river of history.

8、 Build pipeline: build your pipeline system
Nowadays, if you want to use water in the city, you just need to turn the tap. You know, China's tap water industry was born in 1908 at the end of the Qing Dynasty.
Before that, when there was no tap water system, people could only get water by drinking water near the well or walking a long way. Generally, each person could only carry two barrels each time. Once you get sick one day, you can't go out to fetch water.
At that time, it was physical work to drink water. Drinking more than you can see the efficiency.
Now, even if you feel unwell and can't go out one day, it still doesn't affect your use of water - you rely on the tap water pipe and drink more than you look at the system. Just spell efficiency, your water consumption is certainly more than that of the system.
The same is true of time management. It is only an expedient to compete with others for efficiency in doing things. After all, there are only 24 hours a day, so it is not cost-effective.
Even if the boss buys your time, you can only sell it 24 hours a day. Yes, just a little time.
A more advanced approach is to build a system based on doing things, even if it seems to run slowly for the time being. When it grows up slowly and can run continuously, it is the time to give full play to its power.
Everyone would do this. They would finish things beautifully and quietly. When the system appeared, everyone exclaimed: "Oh! It is so!"
Those who work hard will never be able to work systematically.
Once the system works, it can still exist without you. Even if you are not there, your income will still fall into your pocket automatically, which will not affect the quality of life.
Isn't it a very effective time management that you spend all your time at your disposal, drinking tea, basking in the sun, doing things you love, and "wasting" your time on beautiful things?
There are 8 different time management methods shared above. Has any one touched your heart?
Many people often say that time itself cannot be managed. However, you can get more freedom in the future by changing your behavior and practicing some ideas.
The lyrics always sing "I bet my youth on tomorrow". It's quite right to think about it.