Teresa Teng’s song sang: “Let time pass quickly, I only care about you, willing to be infected by your breath.” This is very similar to the mood of foreign trade salesmen towards customers. If foreign trade salesmen want to get a customer, it often takes several months from the time they receive the order, and during these months, there are many miscellaneous things interspersed in between, which makes the salesmen feel that they don’t have enough time and energy every day. They seem to be very busy, but they don’t do anything valuable. At night, their brains are numb and they just want to lie in bed, not to mention spending time to learn and improve.
How can I give myself more time, so that I can do a good job and arrange my spare time for study and life?
For time, there are usually some confusions, such as:
It seems that I am very busy today, but I don’t seem to have done anything. Customers haven’t searched for a few yet!
What did you do today? Why is it noon so soon?
It’s almost six o’clock, and the PPT of the product technical parameters that the customer wants is not completed yet!
I have to pick up my child from school at 6:30, and the client’s plane will arrive at 7:30. What should I do if I can’t split myself?
I feel like I just spent a short time browsing my friends’ circle, watching Douyin and reading useful articles, but how come four hours have passed? Oh my God!
Do you have similar feelings? You find that time has slipped away unknowingly, and you swear to the sky that you must change it tomorrow, but it’s useless.
Few people will specifically analyze where their time is spent. Although they all have some vague time concepts, such as which work takes more time and which things don’t have enough time, this feeling is inaccurate, very vague, and the feeling is likely to be wrong. If you don’t even know where your time is spent at work and in life, you can’t manage your time well.
With the help of mind maps and some small tools, cut time into small pieces and conduct quantitative analysis, just like the police catch thieves, lock in the thieves and petty thieves who steal your time.
First, with the help of mind maps, write a question: Where does the time go? Establish the mindset that time management is necessary, so as to use some time management tools to catch time thieves, and then manage time in combination with personal circumstances.
This will draw a preliminary mind map framework.
Time management thinking: The core is to cultivate the thinking of time composition, cultivate the habit of quantifying time, and find time thieves.
Time management tools: On mobile phones, you can use aTimeLogger or Mr Time to help count where time is spent.
aTimeLogger is very simple to use. There are various classification buttons on the interface. Click on the activity in the lower left corner to start counting classic activity scenes. For example, click on writing to start counting the time for writing. After the writing is completed, click the stop button to complete the statistics of an activity scene. This software can help count the time spent in some classic scenes in work and life, so as to find the time waste points and make it clear where the time thieves are.