Time Boxing: Help in Using Time Wisely

Time boxing may be new to you, but it has long been enjoying the appreciation of freelance workers – writers, web developers, virtual assistants and others. Users that have tried this method felt that they have finally found their ally after dealing with several issues in time management. To cite an example, read below.You have deadlines to follow. More often, these closing dates are in the form of months and days – not hours. For this reason, you tend to delay the completion of a task or group of tasks until the very last hours. With this work habit, several hours of the day are definitely wasted. This is because you tend to work 15 to 20 hours for a set of daily assignments, which in truth can be accomplished in 5 hours. What happened? You have so many “in-betweens”. You chat with friends, you update your status in Facebook, you eat, you watch your favorite afternoon show, etc.

You are so out of focus but you still manage to squeeze in your personal life with work. You do not care about the wasted hours. For you, as long as you are able to finish everything at the agreed date, you have nothing to worry. You are right in this aspect. However, you lose the opportunity to grow your business all because you do not manage your time wisely. Do you not realize that it is high time to change your ways? Let the time boxing approach lead you.Time boxing educates you on time management techniques, where you sort of motivate yourself to complete an assignment or sets of assignments according to your set time. You will be aiming to perform them all by the hour. This may be difficult at first but do not give up because you can do it. Anyway, you do specify a realistic deadline, right?With your time set, focus is your main goal, or else, you will not be successful in accomplishing your tasks for the day. With the set deadline by the hour, it is not likely that you will waste any of your available time. For this reason, you will realize that you have lots of available time to accept more projects from other clients. This will subsequently lead more income every month.To use time boxing, simple grab any timer or alarm clock. Set it at your desired (but reasonable) time. Begin working and try to knock it out before the ring bells.