Drawing a plan
Ever since a couple of weeks ago when my exams got pushed back, I have noticed I have started slacking again in my reading. Before it got pushed back I was always so tense and constantly reading and at times even begging for more time to be added, so that I could finish up. And then now more time has been added and I have started slacking again. It sort of reminded me of Parkinson's law which is an old quote that states that work expands to fill in the allotted time. Such that when there is little time the work can get completed in that time, and then when there is a longer time frame for the exact same work it will also be finished at the new deadline. That is exactly what I realized was happening and so today I set out to make things right.
In order to finish all the things I have to do the best thing to do which I set out to do was to create the illusion of no time. If there is little time then I will have to sit up and do my best to finish everything in time, or else I'll just keep procrastinating and slacking off, or even move forward but at an incredibly slow pace.
One of the things I noticed about myself was that though I had a long list of things to do every day I didn't write them down or have any specific order to doing them. I just made sure I tried my best to do them, and then once in a while, I do them. But then today my goal was to create the illusion of little time, and in order to do that I had to set strict goals, and to make sure I'm hitting those goals I need to keep track of my time.
This was how I started to dissect my everyday activities one by one, keeping track of everything and checking how much time I was spending on different things. I discovered something shocking. I have always felt like I didn't have a lot of time to do stuff, but then as I slowly dissected everything I realized I actually had a relatively decent amount of free time that I wasn't utilizing. I was able to plan my day to suit all my daily activities and still have time for a nap, short bursts of entertainment, and time to talk to loved ones, some of which won't be happening daily. It is also not too rigid such that I can easily shift some things should something important arise. I have been thinking of all the time I spend thinking I don't have enough time to do certain things. If I can stick to this new routine and get comfortable with it, then I will slowly add more important things to it.
I am aware that it is one thing to draw up a plan and it is another to actually stick to it, but I am pretty confident I can follow through with it.
Do you have a daily plan? Does it help? I am interested in your thoughts.
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In my case, I don't have a daily plan because most of the time, I would do the opposite things that I wrote on my to do list. That's why, I haven't been planning my day since then. haha. You are really great @b0s because you're able to follow your daily plan.
hahaha, it happens to a lot of people. I made sure it's not too rigid so I can move some things around. Its still not easy though, but we keep trying.
I don't have a daily plan, but there have been periods when I wrote out plans for a day, it usually helps me but I am rarely consistent with it. I have this problem which I explained with the Parkinson's law, I never knew about it but I.understand now and I will try to create the illusion of no time from now onwards. It's a really great piece and I am happy I found it.
Thanks a lot for reading, glad you found it helpful. When you create the illusion of limited time you'll get more work done