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I recently read a book about time management of Gleb Arkhangelsky called Time Drive.
Severe time management by Gleb Arkhangelsky
No. 1. Time is our capital
There are no millionaires in the realm of time. If we take 75 years as an average life expectancy, it turns out that each of us has 600,000 hours.
But we sleep for a third of our lives and don’t remember the first 3-4 years at all. There are 400,000 hours left.
Some people spend this time efficiently and become successful. The likes of Bill Gates, Richard Branson and Warren Buffett. Others spend their best years doing nothing and then die in poverty.
To achieve something in life, you need to learn how to manage the most valuable resource in our lives - time.
No. 2. Relaxation
Do you feel tired and exhausted after a long day at work? If yes, then you are not alone. This problem is faced by millions of people around the world. The Japanese even coined the word karoshi, which means death from stress at work.
SMART technology
SMART is a technique for setting goals.
It stands for - specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-bound - specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-bound.
Examples of wrong goals are to become rich, lose weight, build abs.
Examples of goals drawn up using the SMART technique are to save 10 million rubles by January 1, 2025, lose 3 kilograms by July 1, pump up 6 cubes by August 1.
We have made these goals specific, achievable and realistic, as well as a time frame for achieving them.
No. 5. Working day
Yesterday is early. Tomorrow is too late. Today is no time.
Have you already set goals using the SMART technique? Write in the comments what.
If you do not achieve the goal, then there is little sense from them. So let's move on to planning. Let's consider .
The plan must be
On paper or on the phone, but not in your head. If you keep it in your head, you will either forget half of the points or remember them at the end of the day. You need to keep a planning diary or download the AnyDo app to your smartphone.
You can plan your day in the morning or in the evening. I prefer to do this before bed because I love waking up knowing what I'm going to do today. Choose the best option for you.
Planning a day takes 5-10 minutes. But what a time saver! Brian Tracy in his book Get Out of Your Comfort Zone says:
Every minute of planning - 5 minutes saved during work.
Write down on a piece of paper all the things you want to do tomorrow. Place the letter A, B, C, D, or E next to them.
A - important and urgent matters. They must be completed today.
B - important, but not urgent matters. They need to be started after doing things with the signature stamp A. An example of such things is reading books, playing sports, learning foreign languages.
C - these things would be good to do. But if you don't, nothing bad will happen. If you don't buy socks today, you can buy them tomorrow.
D - things that can be entrusted to others.
E - unimportant things that waste time. For example, computer games and social networks. I read science fiction and fantasy. The books are very interesting, but time-consuming. Just like langoliers.
Langoliers are time eaters At the end of the day, evaluate how you spent it on a 10-point scale. Write what could be done better. Also write down the ideas that come up during the day.
Example of a diary entry Set goals according to the SMART technique.
No Yes
Learn foreign words Practice 10 new words in Lingualeo
Call 3 clients Call 3 clients and ask them to meet
Pay utility bills Pay utility bills when I pass by the bank
№6.
How to plan a day is understandable. And what about the planning of the week, month and year? Let's figure it out.
Technique "Day - Week - Year"
You should have three types of plans:
- Plan for the day.
- For a week.
- For a year.
How to work with them?
- Set goals for the year.
- When you set goals for the week, look at your goals for the year and think about which ones you will start achieving in the next 7 days.
- As you plan your day, look at your weekly plan and decide what you will start doing tomorrow.
How to control routine tasks
Doing exercises, cleaning up the desktop, paying bills - these things need to be done regularly.
To control their implementation, make such a table. If you complete the task, check the box. If not, minus.
When too many minuses accumulate in some line, you will understand that something needs to be changed.
How to determine the time budget for a task
When you learn how to determine the time needed to complete large tasks, you will become a master of planning.
Let's say you're writing a book. It must be sent to the publisher in 130 days. The book will have 240 pages. So, every day you need to write 2 pages. This will take from 30 minutes to 2 hours a day.
It turns out that every day you should devote 1 hour to writing a book.
Here is an algorithm to help you determine your time budget:
- Determine the scope of work (240 pages).
- Determine the due date (130 days).
- Find out labor productivity (2 pages per hour).
- Calculate how much time you need each day.
You can track the progress of a task using the table in the previous paragraph.
No. 7. Priorities
The main principle of time management is to spend time on the main thing.
How to determine this is the main thing? Schools and universities do not teach this. There is a mandatory program for everyone. No one cares that some items are more important to you than others. You have to learn everything.
The first step to prioritizing is to cut unnecessary things out of your life. For example, a friend asks you to get him a job. You don't care if he works there or not.
But agree to help. And you have to spend time talking to your boss, putting your friend in the best light, and then helping him get comfortable in the workplace.
How many hours can be spent on achieving other people's goals? Not alone. So you need to learn how to say "no".
6 Ways to Say No to People
- Don't make excuses. Say "No, because I don't want to." It is difficult to argue with such an answer. But when the answer is “No, because there is no time,” they may ask you: “When will the time appear?”
- Justify the answer. If the answer “because I don’t want to” seems too harsh for you, use strong arguments. For example: "I can't get you a job because you can't do it."
- Cunning. "I won't be able to take you to the train station because I have training at 6:00 pm." Although in reality it may not be. But it's better to be, because it's easy to get caught cheating.
- Give hope. "I'm not sure if they'll take you, but I'll try to talk to the boss." Be careful with this method - a person can take it for a promise, and then be offended.
- Make what you want unattractive. “I will gladly take you. Only after that you will have to wait for me for a couple of hours.
- Another way. “You know, this job is not as good as it seems. Better go to ... and ask him to arrange you. They pay more."
The secret to getting rid of unnecessary things
Open your plan for the day and reread everything. Write for what purpose each of them is needed. If there are tasks that you perform out of habit, remove them. Save time.
I used to read science fiction and fantasy. There were interesting and instructive books - The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lord of the Rings. And there were harmful - "Game of Thrones".
All about buying time
Another way to save time is to delegate tasks to other people for money. For example, instead of cleaning the house yourself, you can hire a housekeeper. Or you can not plant a garden, but buy vegetables in the winter at the market.
In the time saved, you can do more important things - work, business, family.
How to prioritize a task
- Take a to-do list.
- Write criteria for evaluating their priority.
- Evaluate tasks according to criteria.
- Select the problem with the highest score.
Consider an example.
We need to choose an apartment. There are 3 options - one-room in the city center, three-room in the suburbs, two-room in a residential area. They cost the same 2 million 400 thousand rubles.
The criteria will be the following:
- Number of rooms. Maximum 5 points.
- Proximity to the center. Since this indicator is not so important to us, we can put a maximum of 3 points.
- Interior. 5 points.
Apartment in the center - 2 + 3 + 5 = 10 points.
In a residential area - 3.5 + 2 + 4 = 9.5 points.
In the suburbs - 5 + 1 + 5 = 11 points.
It turned out that the best option is a three-room apartment in the suburbs.
No. 8. Information. How to deal with creative chaos
Outside is the information age. In order not to fall into the ranks of the lagging behind, you need to be able to work with large amounts of information.
Let's say you are a copywriter. Your colleague reads 30 books a year. You are zero. Who will be more successful? That's right, not you.
Let's talk about how to work effectively with information.
- Read. If you haven't read before, start today. Bill Gates reads 50 books a year. Mark Zuckerberg - one book a week. And they are billionaires.
- Write down interesting ideas. Better right away while reading, because then you will be too lazy to look at the book first.
- Put the advice into practice. Read the page - applied - moved on to the next. If you do not apply, then reading will not be useful, since “consumption of information is a road to nowhere” (Andrei Parabellum). You will become like that guy who “read hundreds of books, but didn’t delve into one.”
- Don't read everything. Writers love to borrow ideas from other authors. Many books about self-development are a retelling of other people's thoughts. Something new is rare. Your goal is to skim through the book quickly and read carefully only those chapters that contain something new.
TV - in the furnace
What's on TV? 5 standard plots:
- Terror attacks.
- Murders.
- Corruption.
- Phrases: "We will punish everyone." Terrorists or corrupt officials.
- "Everything will be fine". Sanctions are not a hindrance. Let's get through.
Why are you pumping up negative energy? Stop watching TV. If something really important happens, you will be informed by friends or relatives who are watching it.
Social networks - there
With messages, do the following - spend 10-15 minutes a day reading them.
Keep a diary of ideas
Get a notebook in which you will write down all the thoughts that visited you during the day. Get in the habit of squeezing out 2 ideas every day.
No. 9. Time Eaters
The average person has 200-400 thousand hours of life. We spend a significant part of them on chronophages - activities that consume our time.
How to deal with them
Thus, you can save at least 1-2 hours of time. I have already found what I can save on - reading interesting articles on the Internet.
How to use travel time
- Read books.
- Listen to audiobooks.
- Chat with clients on social media.
- Rest.
- Learn foreign words with the Lingualeo app.
No. 10. The ideology of time management Gleb Arkhangelsky - 7 principles
- Life is given once. So there is no need to waste it.
- Time is a valuable resource. All people have it approximately the same, from 200 to 400 thousand hours.
- Time and human actions are irreversible. They cannot be returned.
- Man is free to change the world. It doesn't matter if you were born into a millionaire's family or in an abandoned village. If you have the willpower, then you can fix it.
- Man is responsible for his actions. He is responsible for how he spends his time and where he is on the ladder of success.
- You need to constantly develop. In all directions.
- We need to teach time management to others. So that the people around do not squander their most valuable resource, but follow the path to the goals.
That's all. This was a summary of "Time Drive" - the best Russian-language book about time management by Gleb Arkhangelsky.
I missed some points, some I added from myself. It turned out what happened.
Write in the comments if you liked the article and whether it is worth writing more summary.
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Your Shapolov Alexey
Gleb Arkhangelsky is the person who knows everything about time management. He is a business coach and time management is his main specialization. Also, Gleb Arkhangelsky is the CEO at the Time Organization company, and on the improvement.ru portal he is the CEO. On the official website of Gleb Arkhangelsky it is indicated that he is the head of the time management department at the Financial and Industrial Academy, Arkhangelsky is a candidate of economic sciences. And today you can invite Gleb Arkhangelsky to your event with a speech on time management. And in this direction he is a recognized expert.
A little biography
On the official website of Gleb Arkhangelsky, he was born in the city of Leningrad, in 1992. He received his education at St. Petersburg University, graduating with a degree in applied mathematics. He studied a lot of project management, time management. The topic of rational use of time is very much interested in Arkhangelsky. And so he decided to organize his school in this direction.
Why is everyone trying to invite Gleb Arkhangelsky? He studied the topic of time management so thoroughly as no one else. And as a result, he began to earn money from his research.
Seminars conducted by Gleb Arkhangelsky are simply a colossal success. We help everyone plan their time properly. After all, time is a unique resource that not everyone can use correctly. If you order Gleb Arkhangelsky with a seminar on time management, you can learn how to use your time rationally. His technique is unique, and most importantly - effective. And it applies not only to working time, but also to the whole pastime of a person during the day.
When conducting master classes, Gleb Arkhangelsky talks about three principles on which all time management is built. This is motivation, goal setting, planning.
Today, a time management expert has released several books on the subject. But everyone should understand that the effect can be obtained only if you practice every day.
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The very concept of time management in Russia appeared quite recently, and Gleb Arkhangelsky made a significant contribution to the spread of a rational, measured approach to business.
Gleb Alekseevich Arkhangelsky, who is considered the founder of the Russian school of time management, was born on February 2, 1979 in St. Petersburg (Leningrad).
At the moment, Gleb Arkhangelsky is rightfully the leading Russian expert in the field of time management.
Education:
- St. Petersburg State University (applied mathematics);
- Project Management Institute (PMI);
- Time Manager course at Time Management International.
Gleb Arkhangelsky became the first person in Russia who clearly formulated the problem of lack of time in business and proposed a system that allows you to effectively manage this resource.
The thesis “time is the most valuable resource that cannot be replenished” is known to all entrepreneurs, but in practice it is very difficult to allocate time rationally. “Time eaters” constantly appear, on which the lion's share of the day is spent.
Life is a one-way road.
Gleb Arkhangelsky collected all the common business problems and converted them into temporary units - and this is a very correct approach that allows you to increase work efficiency in any conditions.
The first book was written in 2005 - it was Time Drive. How to manage to live and work. Subsequently, 7 more books were written, in which the author revealed his views on maintaining a balance between business and leisure.
This is a special philosophy and value system that is characteristic of young people with an active lifestyle who dreamed of simultaneously earning money and relaxing as they wish. Doing business, active self-development, hobbies, personal life fit perfectly into this concept - if you know how to manage your time, all this can be combined.
Information business
The beginnings of the information business appeared in Russia in 2002-2003 - then no one knew what it was and how to work with it. Now, 15 years later, everyone understands that the main value is information, and the person who has it has tremendous power.
“If you work 14 hours a day, then luck and luck will not keep you waiting”
Gleb Arkhangelsky stood at the origins of the information business in Russia and he created very high-quality, unique content that is still relevant today. Most foreign publications devoted to time management do not take into account Russian realities, while Arkhangelsky's books were originally "sharpened" specifically for use in Russia, and this explains their success.
Books
- Time drive. How to manage to live and work. - 2005
- Gleb Arkhangelsky. Rest time: For those who work a lot. - 2013
- Gleb Arkhangelsky. Work 2.0. Breakthrough to free time. - 2009
- Gleb Arkhangelsky. Corporate time management. Encyclopedia of solutions. - 2010
- Gleb Arkhangelsky. Weekly. Method of Gleb Arkhangelsky. - 2011
The good news for all Outlook users is that we are releasing Outlook Task Organizer, a personal version, to the market this fall. Let me remind you that this is an add-on for Outlook that allows you to work with the task tree, which we previously sold only in the corporate version.
The second good news is that the personal version will be absolutely free. In addition to task decomposition, it will contain auto-formatting of the calendar, some additional useful functions, and a systematic set of tips “from Gleb Arkhangelsky” (as it is now in the paper Diary), in fact, a tutorial on TM.
The third good news is that we are looking for the head of the corresponding direction of the company "Organization of Time", with the prospect of growth to the head of a business unit.
Requirements: higher technical / mathematical education; At least 2 years of software project management experience. Will be a plus: experience in corporate sales; free English.
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- April 28th, 2010 05:11 pm
One of the blog readers some time ago asked a sensible question - "What do you recommend the most useful of the most unknown in Outlook?"
For me, one of these mini-discoveries was the ability to open multiple Outlook windows so as not to jump between sections. Now I do this: Outlook opens, the Inbox folder is the first main working window, because I work with mail a lot.
A second Outlook window opens, with a calendar (in it, I also have a taskbar displayed on the right, as described in the Time Formula book). It becomes very convenient to work when you need to answer mail - I go to one window, when I make an entry in the timing in the calendar, or check the meeting plan - to another window. In both windows, everything is saved in the same form as it was during the previous entry.
Do you have non-obvious "tricks" in working with Outlook?
- August 23rd, 2009 07:33 am
The MVP designation takes into account the quantity and quality of books, articles, conference talks, and other forms of activity that help people learn the ins and outs of a particular technology, in this case Outlook. I would like my blog to also not be left out of my activity as an Outlook MVP. Anyone who actively uses Outlook can ask me a question in this post or on [email protected]. I will answer interesting questions with great pleasure in blog releases.
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