Do you find yourself feeling like you never have any time?
Like the clock just keeps ticking faster & faster yet everything is in slow motion?
If you’re a solopreneur in college remotely like I am, or even if you’re still in your 9–5 gig, I have some strategies that will help!
Stop forcing yourself
Making yourself do tasks can help you get it done, but do you feel like you’re rubbing yourself raw by forcing yourself?
You need to get things done, but if you have trouble staying on top of everything you can take this word of advice:
Set realistic deadlines.
How?
By jotting on a calendar, or simply making it clear in your mind that any task will take no less than 1 hour to do.
Giving ourselves a deadline that is less than feasible is only going to make you more overwhelmed than, say, giving a deadline that is easily achievable, right?
Planning in 1 hour per task blocks and then accomplishing that task in much less time can help you get a sense of all you can do.
Taking that feeling of overwhelming exhaustion away!
Multitasking efficiently
Feeling like you’re always going someplace? But you need to read up on ancient history for your class?
Do it together!
While you’re driving just play a recording using Speechify or another app to copy/paste a digital reading in.
The trick is to keep focused on the road while letting the words of your reading pierce your eardrums, without you actively trying to listen to every word.
If you feel like you wouldn’t remember anything, just try it! Just remember to keep your eyes on the road.
Clearer brain, clearer you
Getting out in nature can mean everything for feeling refreshed after a long day, or to fuel your energy before getting started!
And no- you don’t need to jog like everyone else.
You can try…
-Â Bicycling
-Â Jump roping
-Â Swimming
-Â Pull-ups
-Â Yoga
-Â or a simple walk.
Who knows, maybe you’ll find something else you’ll enjoy while outside!
Always running errands?
Even if you feel there’s no other solution, here are 3 I’ve researched for you.
Blocking Time
Take every errand you have to get done during a week (and month, if there’s a monthly errand) and plan to do all of them at a certain time every week.
By time blocking these errands, you can prioritize what errands need immediate attention and which can be held off down the road.
What about last minute errands?
“For the last minute errands, you have no choice but to get them done at that time. However, for the others, try to create a plan in advance. Are there some errands that you can do in advance when you are freer?” — bitqueues
Simplifying
Have an errand that can be done at home?
Great! Now try to find more errands you can do at home like banking, grocery shopping, etc.
Even if you go to work every day and are right around the corner from a store, saving an hour is going to give you more time to spend on other things.
If you’re still feeling overwhelmed, try taking up a new hobby on the weekend.
Why the weekend?
Because Saturday & Sunday are meant to be for rest, not work!
Making those days the opportunity to do something you love will help you to set aside tasks to get done for the week, further helping you to set realistic deadlines for what you can do.
After all, we can’t work 24/7!
(If you can though, please lend me your tips :) )
Overall, adjusting your time means making it better for you to get things done. Even if there are only 24 hours in a day — by being flexible, you can set realistic deadlines & feel better about yourself!