How to make better use of fragmented time?

Nowadays, more and more people are beginning to make use of their fragmented time, and there are more and more products on the market that meet the needs of fragmented time, and they are getting higher and higher-quality. This is a prosperous carnival of progress and development in the information age. As we become more and more diligent ourselves, and the linked products become more and more abundant, we can't help but ask ourselves a question:

Are these occurrences effective for you? After my personal practice, I feel that I can share three experiences:

1. Have clear learning goals. You can set annual learning goals for yourself, quarterly or monthly, or you can set yourself thematic learning goals. The purpose of setting learning objectives is to make fragmentation only fragmented in time, and information is not fragmented.

Just as even the most beautiful pearls have to be connected with threads to form a more beautiful pearl necklace;

2. Have a clear plan for the use of fragments. List the fragmented time that you can use, and reasonably arrange the appropriate content and suitable form according to the time characteristics (morning, noon, evening, length, etc.). For example, if you go out and drive for 45 minutes in the morning, you can listen to audio; During the lunch break, friends in the industry can exchange information and experiences; Read books 20 minutes before bedtime, etc.

In short, you can make a list according to your own situation.

3. Have regular learning output. If we have a clear goal and plan, it is important to have an output in any form, formal or informal. And you have to put pressure on yourself, so that you can revitalize all the inputs in the fragmented time and make the fragmented time more valuable.

Finally, my most important lesson is that we must not let fragmented time become an excuse for us to procrastinate and escape, and become an anxiety and burden for our lives.

When I was in graduate school before, I didn't have a clear concept of fragmented time, but now that my working time has been cut off, I have a different feeling than before.

Let me first talk about my fragmented time, just pick a large part of the time, the journey time to take the subway to work in the morning and evening, the time on the high-speed rail and the plane when I am on a business trip, and the time before going to bed.

In fact, there is much more fragmented time than I said, but from my personal energy and study habits, I prefer to have more than 25 minutes of time, which will make me feel more comfortable and can do what I like, and less than half an hour I will take a break

I usually go to work and commute to the subway, and listen to some previously purchased courses on voice platforms such as Himalaya, Qianchat, and Get. If you have a habit of recording like me, you can take out your mobile phone memo and record all the important things you hear at any time; If the subway is very crowded and there are no seats, it is particularly inconvenient to record, so I will choose to listen to some learning audios that I have heard before, or more relaxing audios, such as Jiang Xun talking about the Red Mansion, etc.;

Due to my work, I travel very frequently, and I will use the time on the high-speed train and the plane to read the courseware that I am going to give lectures at school; If you don't want to prepare courseware, you usually have to read a book with a paper book or bring a kindle, both of which can be marked at any time, which is quite convenient. I hope you find the above helpful

The question of how to make good use of fragmented time can also be translated as, in the fragmented time working mode, can we still maintain continuous and holistic thinking, and at the same time do not lose the ability to react quickly?

My first piece of advice: think hard about what you think will take a lot of time to complete, and see if you can break it down into pieces of time that can be done. And learn to seek a variety of uses for each fragmented unit of time.

Now you can ask yourself a question: what is the shortest time you can utilize, is it 1 minute or 3 minutes? What can I do with all this time?

Most people often find it difficult to give more than 3 kinds of this problem, and some friends even swipe all of them on Weibo. When your fragmented time can't find a reasonable use, it's most likely to be wasted on meaningless things.

Then make a ** and relate the use of your fragmented time to the situation in your life.

This way, whenever you realize that you have fragmented time, you can immediately arrange a fragmented time to complete a small task, instead of thinking about what you can do on the fly. The more fragmented time you use, the more freedom you have to spend your time, and the more freely you can combine fragmented time to accomplish different tasks. In this way, you will gradually be able to learn to connect the fragmented time of the day to complete an important task.

For example, when I write an article, I may use the time on the road to gather inspiration little by little, then spend 1 hour sorting out the outline, and then get everyone's feedback through various communication channels, and then continue to gather inspiration on the way to work. Finally, wait until a relatively unbusy time to close yourself off, and then write the content in one go.

Seeing this question, I think I still have a little bit of a say. I remember that I once published a hit article called "How did I write 3 books with my mobile phone in fragmented time and become a writer?" At that time, many netizens left various messages, and many people thought that my work was relatively idle or the family burden was not heavy, so I had scattered time.

Through the computer screen, I couldn't cry or laugh. To tell the truth, I had my daily work in those years of writing books, I was a ** person, and the pressure was not small, I often traveled, and my work and rest were irregular. So my creative time and tools are the following sauce purple droplets.

Writing and writing time: squatting in the toilet, on the plane or train, Starbucks and other friends, queuing up to eat, applying **, and before going to bed, and other fragmented time in life that can be used to be in a daze, chasing dramas, and brushing WeChat.

Writing tools: mobile phones. In a radio interview last year, the host asked me, ** work is so busy, how do you have time to write a book?

What's more, these books are completely original and have nothing to do with daily work. Why? In fact, this is similar to someone saying that our salary income is about the same, why can you save so much money, and you have also made investment money to make money, for Mao?

Quite simply, the odd pieces of time and loose change that our brains have divided into unimportant areas are often overlooked. In most people's minds, to do something that they think is great, or to start investing in earnest, you have to come up with an important time of day or an integer multiple of 100 yuan. But in the end, we found that all the important time that we thought could be used to achieve great dreams was taken away from studying, exams, and work.

Those hard-earned salaries, spent and spent, only change remained. So, nothing was achieved, there was not much money, and the days went on and on without any new ideas.

You can't help but pause and think about what you're doing at those unimportant times of the day. Watching Korean dramas? Or watch the run, brother?

Playing Honor of Kings? If you say that I don't have any big ambitions, I just want to live in the moment as I want, and I don't have any dreams. So, dear, you can close this page.

But, if you say that you are not willing to accept the status quo, you also have dreams. Then don't miss every 20 minutes. Take writing as an example, I generally use the time to close my eyes at night and the time to exercise and exercise, and after the idea is complete, I can record it in my mobile phone when I apply it, and repair it when I squat on the toilet the next morning, and then take the time to think and put down the pen ......Normally, in 20 minutes, I can type 500 words on my phone.

Even if you have a baby, you will never give up half an hour of breastfeeding, and all of it will be used for writing and creation. Maybe in a short period of time, the fragmented time that is used does not allow you to surpass others, but after three or five years, it can make a greater difference than compound interest.

Author: Wang Shiwen is the signed author of Jianshu, the first person in China's emotional financial management, and the author of the best-selling books "Money Meets You - The Most Touching Emotional Financial Management Story", "I Understand Your Financial Anxiety", etc.

Are we taking advantage of fragmented time or are we fragmented?

Imagine a scenario: you want to use the fragmented time between work to pay attention to the information in the industry group, but you are stumped by a large amount of information in it, for fear of missing something, you can't stop brushing at all, and when you look back, half an hour and an hour have passed. So, are you saying it's exploiting fragmented time?

So, how can you really make good use of fragmented time?

First: The first thing is to know the time you have

And you should know what you should be doing and assign work reasonably.

Many times, it's not that we don't know how to make the best use of the fragmented time, but we don't know what we can do during that time.

You might scoff, can I not know what I'm going to do? With so many things going on, many times you really don't know what you're supposed to do.

1) Use the schedule list: How do you do it? Use the left side of the journal to write down what you need to do for each day of the week, and the right side is a blank record field. Paste the seven masters on a large piece of paper, and then the things you need to do in the next week will be clearly laid out in front of you.

2) To do board of work arrangement: write the tasks in the schedule list on post-it notes according to their importance and category, and then glue them on the cardboard, paste important things online, and tear off the corresponding post-it notes for each task completed. There is only so much to give us the task to move forward step by step.

Second: make a good schedule

1) In daily work, the most common thing we do is that our work is often interrupted by various affairs, and then when we go back to work, we need to restart the work state, which seriously affects the efficiency and wastes time, so it is best to maintain continuity in fragmented time to ensure that the work is not interrupted.

3) Do the important work immediately, don't strive for perfection, and do the uncertain things first.

For most people, their time is often shattered, so I often hear many people complain to me that it's not that they can't finish something, it's because their time is broken, and they can't concentrate on something. In fact, making good use of the time that is broken can also do a lot of things efficiently.

First, make a list of the time periods of your day that generate fragmented time.

The time spent lying in bed before waking up, the time spent waiting for the subway, the rest time after lunch, etc., are actually fragmented time, which is classified according to the length of time.

Second, list what you can do for different time periods and different scenarios.

For example, what can you do in 1 minute? What can you do in 5 minutes? For each period of time, for different scenarios, list no less than 5 uses.

Third, prepare for your own fragmented time plan.

Fourth, subdivide your own matters and make reasonable use of fixed time and fragmented time.

Each item is composed of a number of small things, and subdividing the items not only helps us to understand how things should be done more intuitively, but also allows us to allocate time reasonably, make full use of time, and improve efficiency.

<> "How to Use Fragmented Time to Improve Efficiency."

Today's life is becoming more and more fast-paced, and there is more and more fragmented time. For example, the time to wait for the bus on the way to and from work, the time to take the subway, the time to wait for customers at work, the time to queue for business and so on.

However, it is difficult to make the fragmented time and the whole block of time seamlessly connected, work and study at the same time, and achieve the highest efficiency. Today, I'm going to share with you a super useful method, which I call the "next step".

Recall what actions we did when faced with large chunks of time that invisibly wasted a lot of time? Are there two common scenarios?

First, I haven't started to think about what I'm going to do today, so I spent half a day thinking about what I want to do.

That said, taking the time to think about it is very time-consuming and inefficient, whereas once you figure out what to do and how to do it, it is faster and easier to get into the groove.

Then, the question becomes, how to turn the whole block of time into a thing that you don't have to think, but can be like a robot, just doing the work you do.

The solution is to use fragmented time to think about what to do next, what to do, or how you plan to start doing something.

In this way, the rhythm of fragmented time and the use of the whole block of time becomes a repeated cycle of thinking + execution, which can help us quickly enter the state of flow and greatly improve efficiency.

For example, I would spend the time I would go out to the subway to think about what work I had to do at work today, and then record them one by one.

For routine daily work, you can skip all of them because you are familiar with the specific implementation steps.

And this year-end work summary, I haven't figured out how to write it, so I chose to think about how to write it during the time I was on the subway, and make a rough outline.

That way, when I get to the office and sit at my desk, I can turn on my computer and start working right away.

It's the same when I'm off work, walking to the subway station and thinking about whether to read or write when I get home in the evening. If you're reading a book, if you haven't figured out which book to read, you'll search for a book list based on the topic you want to read.

Then, on the way to the subway, roughly browse the contents of several book lists to determine which book to read in the end.

When I get home, after eating and cleaning up, I can immediately enter the state of reading and studying.