“Have you ever had the idea that you didn’t get it done today, but you’re telling yourself that you need your early thoughts for tomorrow?”

01 preface

Today, let’s talk about how programmers can manage their work time efficiently and achieve a balance between study, life and work. In fact, today is all about time management. If you organize your work effectively, you will have much more time than others. Of course, I do not strictly follow my own schedule, to be exact, it is only a rough schedule.

Sometimes, when we have clearly planned the day, every to-do list is written in the shenzhen notebook, and we are ready to do something big, suddenly something inevitable will be done, which will disrupt your life or study plan, and inevitably there will be some complaints. But go ahead and do something else that has a higher priority. But as we know, good habits can’t be formed in a day. So when you are about to form a habit and it is disrupted, life can be very difficult, but a person with a long-term habit will not be changed by accident, he can still arrange everything.

02 Is Getting up early addictive

We may not understand why some people talk about the benefits of early days, because we have a long-term habit of going to bed late and waking up late, and the body clock is relatively fixed and difficult to change. If you insist that your classmate must get up early to study tomorrow, he will be confused to sleep, because he has not formed a long-term habit, so he is unable to understand what you said in the mouth of getting up early in the end is good.

Whether I had too much chicken soup or was determined to change my lifestyle, I tried to get into the habit of waking up early. Not because of someone else’s strong chicken soup, but feel that their thinking in the morning is actually very active, compared to the afternoon into the formal high-intensity work, and the tired state in the evening. I have read a lot of articles say that morning is suitable for learning, suitable for reading and absorption of time, in fact, this also depends on everyone’s habits, how do you know whether others like to do mental strength relatively large work in the morning and efficiency is quite high?

This is to rely on their own fumbling, to find their own learning habits. The above is the public opinion, not everyone is suitable. We don’t understand what people say is so good about getting up early unless we have experienced it ourselves. I recommend you try it early, it’s really addictive.

Is Time money

Today we’re talking about time as a programmer, time is never enough for us, and time is a scarce resource. Why do we rarely follow a routine at work and in life? Because time is not allowed, sometimes a project may be online in a few days to complete, time is very pressing. So we want to be like some college workers, in addition to the work of a few outsourcing to play, but also can develop their own sideline, etc., must have their own a set of time management rules.

Of course, we can not directly transfer other people’s time management plan to use, everyone’s time is the same, but is “different”. Just as practice is the only standard to test the truth, our time management plan also needs practice, skills and methods, need to optimize their own plan in continuous practice.

So how can we effectively manage our time?

  • routine

Studies show that we can’t sleep less than seven hours, which is what experts recommend. Of course, there’s no way we’re gonna do that. Isn’t it fun? Or is Tiktok not pretty? It must be said that electronic devices now occupy most of our time, and sometimes even eat up our sleep time.

So the first step in our time management is to go to bed early and get up early. Indeed, it is very difficult for some people, because at the beginning, he cannot put down the game in the mobile phone, the American TV series in the computer, and the milk tea before going to bed. To break through this step, you must make a firm resolution to go to bed an hour earlier every day and get up an hour earlier tomorrow. Or we could think easier and go to bed a minute earlier and get up a minute earlier tomorrow. Isn’t that too much?

  • Work arrangement

Some students can perseverance is better, struggling up in a morning, very happy, and one step closer to their goals. But suddenly there was a feeling of emptiness and helplessness. What was I getting up so early for? For breakfast or to learn to read? Or for work?

So the second step here is to have your own schedule of tasks. Don’t write it down in detail. Just take about 10 minutes to write down what your tasks are for the day. In fact, some things are necessary to do every day, like a day to sum up, not a day to leave nothing. So it’s worth taking 10 minutes to write today’s Todolist. With a schedule, you won’t have to wake up confused, so you’ll slip back into bed and go back to sleep.

Some people may say, I have too many tasks to do, how do I have time to write a plan? You don’t worry, you can classify the tasks, we all know that the tasks are endless, every day there are new tasks, you have to choose to do every day, so the choice here seems to be very effective.

Remember the SWOT analysis from management? In fact, when we first learned it, we were impressed by this, and we’re referring to this kind of analytical rule. We divide tasks into urgent and non-urgent, important and unimportant categories. Then our tasks for the day will naturally come out. Start with the highest priority and everything will be in order.

Critical and Important > Critical but Not Important > Not Urgent but Important > Not Urgent and Not Important

  • State management

The state management here refers to managing one’s own learning or working state. For us, when we are very focused on doing a thing is not allowed to interrupt others, you think of if you think of a very perfect solution, but suddenly someone asked you to check the bug, you will be smiling on the face, XXX in the heart.

In time management, we must pay attention to clear occasions. For example, if you want to write code, you can allow yourself a longer time to think and ensure that your thinking will not be interrupted by others. In this way, your working thinking will be continuous and your progress will be much smoother. But if you’re reading or studying, use the Pomodoro technique. Study for 25 minutes and then take a 5-minute break. Repeat.

  • Learn to summarize

Summary is also a very important step. We should form our own learning warehouse, classify the knowledge learned and establish our own knowledge system. We also need to establish our own line of thinking, for example, we need to summarize what causes problems in our written projects. You can sum up the knowledge points and mistakes encountered, just like we need to make mistakes in the third year of high school.

I wrote a previous article about the difference between active and passive learning. Here we learned to summarize is equivalent to our passive learning from the beginning of the gradual transition to active learning, their grasp of knowledge is relatively high.

In addition, we form the habit of summary is conducive to our data search, before we encounter any problems on the first to search, search after there is no and then. According to the 80-20 rule, 80% of the difficulties we encounter in life can be solved by using 20% of the commonly used methods, so we form our own method library, and it is easy to solve the problems of life.

04 summary

Well, let’s call it a day. We can form the habit of getting up early first, then time management is to make good use of the early time, we can get twice the result with half the effort. Our understanding of time management mainly includes work and rest habits, work arrangements, state management and learning to summarize. If you do the above points, naturally you will be satisfied with yourself, with your study and work, and more importantly, to improve yourself.

I hope everyone can become addicted to getting up early!