Freedom Accelerator 2.0 TIME MANAGEMENT. Managing your time for high performance. If you are an entrepreneur or a small business owner, you need to be conscious of your time and understand how to get the most out of it to perform at the highest possible level. Multitasking: By definition that is doing more than one thing at once. But what we are really doing is task-switching rapidly. And it's a part of our daily lives in modern life. When you are going from one task to another, researches slow that your IQ goes down by 10%. Also, when we switch from one task to another our brain can take up to 20min to get the full focus back on that particular task. What to do? BE AWARE! When we are task switching we are not fully present on what we are doing since a considerable amount of cognitive resources are busy in actually switching from one focus to the other. If you are aware that you are going to multitask, set a timer, so your time doesn't go by without even realising it (remember that you are not nearly as present when you are multitasking). Leave the time control to your timer, your timer is your friend! Freedom Accelerator 2.0 Try setting it up for 15 min: what's gonna happen is that you'll be consciously multitasking and you will be much more productive since you are doing it consciously. Be mindful and you will improve your performance by just being conscious you are multitasking. How to Mindful Multitasking? When you are planning out your week, write down the little things that you have to do and do not require your full cognitive power so you can do them together when you are multitasking, then: 1.-Designate a time for multitasking. 2.-Set a timer so you don’t spend more time than planned. Your timer is your friend to master productivity. 3.-Shut off ALL notifications on your phone. Freedom Accelerator 2.0 Improving your daily efficiency: We all have so much time in our days and ultimately in our lives, depending on how we use it we will get so much (or so less) stuff done. Ideally you want to get things done and you want to do them in an enjoyable way. When we shift our focus to one task to another we tend to get stressed and often overwhelmed with the feeling that we have done very little considering the time we have spent. And it is true, our performance drops when we operate that way. To improve your productivity, make the most out of your time and enjoy while doing so remember this: 1.-Do “interval training” for your work: Work for 55 min non stop and rest for 7 (we call this 55/7). Or Work for 25 and rest for 5 (25/5). Stay laser focused on your task for the time you are working and take the rest times very seriously too. You need to REALLY SWITCH OFF ir it won’t work. What happens is that your brain "knows" that you will have that reward after your focus time to go check facebook or reply the messages or whatever happens to be. So you are training your brain to laser focus in exchange of this reward, that's why it is so important to respect the working times and also the rest times. 2.-Focus on only ONE single task at a time: Chunk or cluster similar activities for a period of time. If it's calls, do them all at the same time. Emails, Facebook, whatever you need to do put all the activities that relate or are similar to each other. Freedom Accelerator 2.0 Email: designate a time for your email!! You can use gmail extension boomerang for google mail so you can batch all emails to be sent out at the same time so you don't get into email conversations. 3.-Set your goals and make a commitment: Timefulness is being present to focus on the quality of your time and for this we need to understand what are we committed to. Having weekly goals and being committed to achieve your desired outcomes is crucial. You cannot be committed to ten different things, commit to a max of three things and smash through them before jumping on the next one. 4.-Zero distractions policy: During the time you set on your work, you need zero distractions. Make sure your environment is inspiring and set up in a way that doesn't distract you. 5.-Take rest times as serious as you do with work time: You have to rest after your hour of work. It is very important that when you take that break you UNPLUG. It allows you to recharge and come back to crush it again, the rest part is as important as the work part.
