How To Keep Making Progress?

[Caelis]

Hey people, lately I've been implementing some good habits into my life which I have been following through on, but I find myself very chaotic when it comes to having a solid plan for making progress. I feel that I need to have a plan with daily tasks written down so I know exactly what to do and where to go but I don't now where to start. Does anybody have some advice for me to get me on track with a vision? 

Thanks in advance,

-Caelis 

[Anna]

I always set up a plan for the whole week. Afterwards I check how much time is left each day. It depends on the priority of the tasks. So for me work is the highest and I can't change the working time. I also have routines like running on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Running is on second place after work.

And then each day gets a certain amount of tasks (depending on priority and the time I have to invest).

Still sounds a bit chaotic, but I can post a picture of my schedule for next week.

For bigger goals I set up plans for years or months and write down how I want to achieve my goals. When I know what to do I integrate the smaller steps into the weekly plan.

[JohnOldman]

Sometimes it may seem that there isn't enough time to do everything that you need to. This can lead to a build up of stress. When revising for examinations, or during your final year when you have to combine the pressures of intensive study with finding time to apply for jobs good management of your time can be particularly important. Once we have identified ways in which we can improve the management of our time, we can begin to adjust our routines and patterns of behaviour to reduce any time-related stress in our lives. So you can take part in a little training)

http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/sk/time.htm

As for me, I succeeded to do it by myself)

I need to improve my typing speed for that)
I began to read interesting articles
“how to improve the typing speed”, here are some of them
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/faster-keyboard-typing/
http://www.ratatype.com/learn/
Now working on it, noticeable a little progress ^^))
check my results here http://www.ratatype.com/typing-test/

[Caelis]

thanks for the advice 

 

[Jay Brown]

@Caelis OCD?? alot of people have this habit of making tasks as that makes things easy to get done with good precision, i'd like to pick up on that habit 

[Psychonaut]

@JohnOldman I remember doing a typing speed test like 5 years ago. I think I had like 80 keystrokes/minute. I just redid the test I have 50-55 words/minute ~270 keys/minute. Cool I improved a lot. 

http://10fastfingers.com/typing-test/english

[Donald]

@Caelis First things first , priorities come first . Ask yourself what'sreally important for me to do and do that thing first . Track your activities , including Social media , TV and other activities that are dull.  Take a paper and a pen and write down your whole day . So at least you will have the bigger picture in order to spot " bugs" .

Good luck. 

[Pallero]

I find that the best way to keep making progress is to have goals and visions for your life. Where do you see yourself in six months, one year, three, five and ten years? Once you have these big goals established, you'll find that making progress will become easier.

[Clayman]

This is a great way to get organised. This is how I did it and am still managing to efficiently do many productive things during the day. First list all the things you are already doing and all the new things you want to implement in this kind of table, categorize them. It will help you to easily realize what and when things need to be done. Good way to prioritize things. I found this model in one of the books I have read. Probably in : The 7 habits of highly effective people, The power of habit, or maybe in some of Napoleon Hills books. I recommend that you read some of them also.

The next thing I do is form a to do list from the already prioritized stuff and list them in order (I have a ''to do list'' addon on my laptops rainmeter, you can also do it on paper/phone or whatever you feel like). And the last thing I do is do the things that I have listed using the ''time blocking method''. I divide my activities in chunks of time, some of them I do for 30 mins, some for 2 hours, some for 10 mins, depends what they are of course. I do the same thing 6 days in a week and than I do some goalless activities and contemplate on the 7th day.... Leo talks about it in this video. You can check it out.
 

Somethings I don't do them in order, I just do the things I feel like doing in the moment while still holding on the quadrants from the model. I do not take the timing of the activities too neurotic, (I used to, now I don't) I just keep them in a good margin of time and manage them more fluidly.  

If you are not experienced in this area, I suggest that you add 1 positive activity in your day, and take 1 bad out every three weeks or so. It might take you down from few months up to half an year to change everything. But if you are experienced which means you are disciplined and organised, you can reduce those periods easily, and even change few things at 1 time. One step at a time.

May the force be with you.

Edited February 27, 2016 by Clayman

[MIARIVEL]

I would highly suggest to read ' Eat That Frog' by Brian Tracey, he talks about procrastination, organising tasks, how to manage several tasks. 

Basically, pick one task you must do today that is non-negotiable. Once that is done, what is the next non negotiable task? 

Every Sunday I usually plan my week ahead, meal plans, fitness goals, business goals, study goals for the week and schedule them into my week. I also look at my diary every morning of things that I need to do for the day and what I have on. 

On the last Sunday of every month I write down things I want to achieve for the next month and start putting those goals in. Whatever I don't get one day, it moves to the next day or a later date for me to do. 

[Caelis]

10 hours ago, Anna said:

On 27-2-2016 at 10:02 AM, Clayman said:

This is a great way to get organised. This is how I did it and am still managing to efficiently do many productive things during the day. First list all the things you are already doing and all the new things you want to implement in this kind of table, categorize them. It will help you to easily realize what and when things need to be done. Good way to prioritize things. I found this model in one of the books I have read. Probably in : The 7 habits of highly effective people, The power of habit, or maybe in some of Napoleon Hills books. I recommend that you read some of them also.

The next thing I do is form a to do list from the already prioritized stuff and list them in order (I have a ''to do list'' addon on my laptops rainmeter, you can also do it on paper/phone or whatever you feel like). And the last thing I do is do the things that I have listed using the ''time blocking method''. I divide my activities in chunks of time, some of them I do for 30 mins, some for 2 hours, some for 10 mins, depends what they are of course. I do the same thing 6 days in a week and than I do some goalless activities and contemplate on the 7th day.... Leo talks about it in this video. You can check it out.
 

Somethings I don't do them in order, I just do the things I feel like doing in the moment while still holding on the quadrants from the model. I do not take the timing of the activities too neurotic, (I used to, now I don't) I just keep them in a good margin of time and manage them more fluidly.  

If you are not experienced in this area, I suggest that you add 1 positive activity in your day, and take 1 bad out every three weeks or so. It might take you down from few months up to half an year to change everything. But if you are experienced which means you are disciplined and organised, you can reduce those periods easily, and even change few things at 1 time. One step at a time.

May the force be with you.

Thanks a lot for your advice, I find it very very useful and am definitely gonna implement this in my life!

About the books, I just bought 7 habits of highly effective people an read a few pages every day, really good book! I am defenitely gonna check those other books out aswell  

 

 

[Caelis]

1 hour ago, MIA.RIVEL said:

I would highly suggest to read ' Eat That Frog' by Brian Tracey, he talks about procrastination, organising tasks, how to manage several tasks. 

Basically, pick one task you must do today that is non-negotiable. Once that is done, what is the next non negotiable task? 

Every Sunday I usually plan my week ahead, meal plans, fitness goals, business goals, study goals for the week and schedule them into my week. I also look at my diary every morning of things that I need to do for the day and what I have on. 

On the last Sunday of every month I write down things I want to achieve for the next month and start putting those goals in. Whatever I don't get one day, it moves to the next day or a later date for me to do. 

Sweet! gonna check that out! you helped me a lot thank you

[Clayman]

No probs @Caelis mate, good luck and don't take big bites at once  

Edited February 29, 2016 by Clayman