Tips for Freeing Up Time in Your Day

Follow these tips to help you freeing up a ton of time.

1) Take Control of Distractions:

Avoid conditions when your brain and hands have two different agendas. It is like you’re trying to work but your hands and eyes are busy scrolling down your Facebook News Feed.

To temporarily block internet access to specified websites for a customized lenght of time, allow tools like Self Control (for Mac) or Freedom (for PC). You’ll be surprised to know how much time you win back.

2) Work Within a Defined Timeframe:

It’s important not to commit to long periods of uninterrupted work. This can lead to adverse effects on your productivity.

To help make you more productive and spare up some hours, experts recommend a techniqute called Pomodoro (Italian word for Tomato). According to Lifehacker, the Pomodoro Technique can be best broken into five following steps:

Choose one task
Set your timer for 25 minutes
Work until the timer rings
Take a 5 minutes break
Repeat the previous steps 3 more times, and then take a 10-15 minutes break.

3) Delegate Your Tasks:

According to a resarch conducted by Professor Julian Birkinshaw and productivity expert Jordan Cohen, an average of 41% of a knowledge worker’s time was spent on tasks and activities that could be handled proficiently by others.

If you really want to free up some time in your day, you need to stop trying to wear all hats and delegate what’s on yoru plate to others.

4) Save Nonessential Tasks for Later:

The desier to “always be learning” can consume ton of our time. As a marketer, it’s just as much our job to consume remarkable content as it is to create it. As a result, we often found ourselves consulting all industry blogs out there, and scrolling through our favorite social platoforms to educate us.

By using time-saving apps like Pocket, we can save web content for later. When we add a piece of content to our Pocket ap, it automatically saves across all of our web devices.

5) Rethink Your Sleeping Habits:

It’s no secret that most of us spend too much time under glow of our smartphones in bed at night. You do it. I do it. We all do it.

As per a reserach conducted by Harvard Health, the blue light emitted by our devices could be seriously deteriorating our sleeping habits. As a result, we suffer from a decrease in sleep quality.

You can use F.lux app that solves for this very problem by adjusting the color of your computer’s display in accordance to the time of the day.

6) Use Keyboard Shortcuts:

Little time savers like keyboard shortcuts have the ability to add up to something greater. Combine that shortened commute with a few keyboard shortcuts once you get to work and you’ll surely notice a difference.

Not familiar with keyboard shortcuts? To get you started, check out these examples: