Time management, Productivity and Technology use Flashcards
Does time managment better for wellbeing or proformance?
In other words, time management may be of primary
importance to preserving wellbeing, and of
secondary to performance.
8 tips for time management
- Monotask. Do one thing at a time.
- Time block (Logical Vs creative Tasks)
- Make a schedule
- Whats the thing I need to achieve today?
- Have a Monthly Goal
- Habit Stacking (two things you can do easily at once)
- Do the same thing in the same places.
- Proper Sleep
What is the Podmoro Method?
PODMORO METHOD: 25min work, 5min rest x4 cycles, then one15-30min
break
Tips for overcome Procrastination
- Just do 5 minutes
- Complete the easiest part first
- Choose the part you are the least challenged or the least put-off by
What is Encoding?
Encoding: connecting pen to paper
* Writing down information helps you process and encode information into memory
5 STRATEGIES TO HELP YOU WITH OVER-THINKING
(AND BETTER MANAGE YOUR MENTAL CAPACITY AND TIME MANAGEMENT)
- Put aside perfectionism: Pareto principle: 80/20
- Right-size the problem - 10/10/10 rule
- Leverage your intuition through thin slicing
- Limit the drain of decision fatigue
- Use time constraints for thinking and task completion - Parkinson’s Law
What is the Pareto Principle?
The Pareto principle, also known as the 80/20 rule, is a theory maintaining that 80 percent of the output from a given situation or system is determined by 20 percent of the input.
What is the 10/10/10 rule?
One way to analyze the short-term and long-term consequences of your work-life-balance decisions is to apply the 10/10/10 Rule: to ask yourself how you’ll feel with the options in 10 minutes, 10 months, and 10 years.
What is Thin Slicing?
Thin-slicing is psychology’s word for an ability to accurately judge people or situations on the basis of first impressions.
What is decision fatigue?
Decision fatigue is when the mind becomes fatigued after a sustained period of decision making. Making decisions is a cognitively taxing process, and decision making ability declines after long sequences of decisions.
What is Parkinson’s law?
Parkinson’s law is the adage that “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
Why is creating a calme, inviting, decluttered place for work good?
- Ego Depletion:
- Intrinsic motivation
- Consider plants, being outdoors in nature
What are some tips for mindful technology use?
- Attention Residue:
- De-emphasize the importance of returning message right away
- Work offline smart devices and entertainment apps
- Delete apps during “crunch time”, use of apps to set time limits
- Put device on silent and out of sight/out of reach
- Scheduled/timed use of apps/device: e.g. digital curfew
What is attention residue?
Attention Residue, when part of our attention is focused on another task instead of being fully devoted to the current task that needs to be performed.
What does some research say about the relationship between smart phones and cortisol?
SMART PHONES AND CORTISOL
Relationship between smartphones and cortisol is not yet clearly established
Select research to-date:
* Subjects report feeling more stressed than before they had a smartphone
* Checking work emails first- or last-thing in the day can interfere with natural cortisol rhythms
(and sleep)
* Nomophobia (no-mobile-phone phobia) has been shown to increase cortisol levels
* Social media can exacerbate stress (information overload, cyber bullying, social comparison…)
