Five Tips to Make More Time

No matter how old you are, you will certainly recall many incidents where you might have said, “I don’t have any time!” Don’t worry, I’ve said that too! In the 21st century, we are all busy bees and often we find ourselves not being able to do things because we find ourselves doing so much already. Here are a few simple ways you can make your time a lot more productive.

1. If you find yourself watching TV too much.

As a student, I often find that I have to do homework the night before. I realised that I watch too much TV. Nowadays we have TVs everywhere. The slightly more affluent of us can even afford TVs in their bathrooms. Watching about 1-2 hours of TV is ideal so if you watch any more than that, swap it for something better.

2. Get a day of the weekend free.

A lot of us love spending our weekends with our near and dear. But a lot of the times you may find yourself spending entire weekends with your friends. Okay, that’s good that you are socialising but keep at least one day of the weekend for yourself. Try to get as many of your friends doing things together i.e. a massive group off to the cinema or the local Chinese. This way you avoid seeing a few of friends loads of times in different groups and you get to see them all.

3. Run by a schedule.

If you have a planned schedule which you follow stringently, you will find you have more time than your other friends. Having a planned schedule for leisure, exercise, chores and work means that you can reduce time where needed to do other work of more importance and that you are measuring your time in such a way that you make use of every minute you have.

4. Multitask or not to multitask?

Despite what people say about multitasking, the true benefits lie in you and you yourself. Do you find yourself, working on your laptop, whilst listening to music and watching TV and trying to feed your one year old and find that you’ve spend nearly an hour trying to accomplish it? Don’t multitask then. The brain can cope with only a few things at any given time and multitasking means you are spreading your attention over various things. Sometimes multitasking can take a lot more time than individually focusing your attention on a single thing. Decide what suits you better and follow it. Don’t try to multitask if you find yourself wondering how time has flown.

5. Prioritise your activities.

Prioritise, prioritise, prioritise. That should be your mantra. Certain activities like chores, homework, looking after children take a bigger responsibility than arranging the bookshelf, playing on the Xbox or writing articles for an online writing site. Do them first. Other activities that don’t require immediate doing but do need doing at some point during the week can be slotted in elsewhere. For example, my room gets too dirty too quickly. Instead of cleaning it everyday, I keep it for twice a week. Some day’s dinner needs cooking. I give myself a free day twice a week and resort of microwaveable food. Having said that, make sure you aren’t eating junk every day and wading in the filth that has collected in your bedroom!

You should find that these little tips give you a lot more time than you would normally have. Those people with a lot of time to do other things normally make concessions and that is necessary. You can’t be a domestic goddess, social animal and a workaholic at the same time, but you can pick days when you choose to be a domestic goddess, social animal and a workaholic individually.