Time management thread : Request for tips, ideas, advice, suggested reading material

LastStandBeforeOver · 2021-05-23T18:36:41+00:00

Vast question.

In short, your time is your real currency. You can gain back money but never time wasted. So you must be very selective with how you spend your time :

Cut out any useless commitment that does not advance your studies/works, social life or fitness. For me, that includes any extracurricular activity which does not bring you friends or professional contacts (real ones, not "potential" ones like fellow students), regular evenings with the same group of people (nice at first but it can become boring), lectures (attending most of them does usually not help much compared to just reading slides or lecture notes), professional meetings in general.
In general, do not engage in any activity besides your work that is not complete fun/social, notably if it includes some commitment or periodicity.
Identify in which was you are most often unefficient and address it. If you spend too much commuting, work from home as often as possible. If you procrastinate, identify if the activity is useless and cut it. Or if it is not, set alarms which compel you to start your work, force yourself to start at a round hour like 9:00am, and use techniques like Pomodoro. If your cooking method is too heavy, go back to something more basic but still healthy.

After you cut out the waste of time, you must optimize your time for your goals. In a typical redpill day, which is supposed to be every day, you must fit work (when on a weekday), fitness, social life, chores, good sleep and personal goals. A good way is to define clear rules and guidelines and stick to them. For example, I wake up at any time that guarantees me 8 hours of sleep, I work, I go to the gym or have a run, then I have lunch, a shower, and I go back to work, then I have dinner, and finally my social slot. My social slot is for meeting friends, having dates, doing some chores or advancing my personal goals. I plan my day so the social slot starts between 7 and 7:30pm. I try to go to bed so I wake up before 7am but I prioritise sleep over waking up early for work. If I have to work a lot then I also work during the social slot, but I try to not to throw away the lunch break fitness. You will also have to set up clear routines and patterns to sustain the logistics behind your schedule.

Finally, use a calendar to note the important events, use a to do list (eg in a app) and take inspiration from productivity methods like GTD or Pomodoro.

Good luck!

Title	Time management thread : Request for tips, ideas, advice, suggested reading material
Author	just_wannabe_happy
Upvotes	6
Comments	4
Date	May 23, 2021 3:35 PM UTC (5 years ago)
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