How to organize time be more efficient

Today I want to talk a little about time, our most precious asset and that we all have the same amount.

I don't know if you ever stopped to think about it but me you bill gates and jeff bezos have the same 24 hours a day, and not how to change that, so the question is what do you do with your 24 hours.

Thinking about it, I would like to bring a reflection that has a scientific basis, remembering that I am not an expert, just an enthusiast.

When you have to do something and you don't write it down, your brain always keeps reminding you for example:

Let's say you have to pay a bill but you didn't write it down, you didn't do anything, you just know that you have to pay a bill, and you're going to do something else, your brain will be reminding you "you have to pay that bill , you have to pay that bill, you have to pay that bill ... "and every time he does that he takes away your concentration on what you are doing,

When you put it on a list it is much easier to forget that it exists, because you will look at that list and you will know what you have to do, so your time doing the other task becomes much more efficient.

So making lists ends up making your time doing other things more efficient, because you stop that constant effort of remembering the things you have to do and you are procastinating to do it.

There is a legal strategy on this, studies show that people are not multitasking, you do not do all the things at the same time, you alternate between one and the other and as you alternate you lose time, and statistically you increase the average error rate in all activities if you are doing two to three things at the same time, and you lose more time moving from one task to another because you change the context of what you are doing, and you need time to change, and one of the strategies is:

focus tasks

for example: I will only stop when I finish writing this text or this activity.

If I want to take a break it is a break to procastinate but not to do something else. because the cognitive cost of switching from one task to another is very high, if you are switching from one task to another very quickly you can never concentrate on finishing a specific task.

So it is interesting when doing something that requires concentration to eliminate all voluntary and involuntary distractions, that little girl that keeps flashing on your cell phone, the ringing of messages on whats app or people entering and leaving the environment you are in.

If you are a person who is easily distracted the cost of refocusing on the task is very high.

So use some type of agenda, whether on your cell phone, on paper or in an application, to organize the tasks you have to do in your day.

This is my reflection today, I hope it may have helped you in something and use an agenda, your time is precious.

Versão em português

Hoje quero falar um pouco sobre o tempo, o nosso ativo mais precioso e que todos temos a mesma quantidade.

Não sei se você ja parou pra pensar mas eu voce o bill gates e o jeff bezos temos as mesmas 24 horas no dia, e não a como mudar isso, então a questão é o que voce faz com as suas 24 horas.