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One major thing we get wrong: work isn’t about tasks and targets. It’s about energy. There’s only a fraction of the day (honestly) that you’ll be really successful at those tasks and targets, and you need to figure out how to maximize it. Unfortunately, this is what often happens: e-mails. Meetings. E-Mails. Meetings. Rinse and repeat.
The dirty little secret of most workplaces is that we really only do about 590 actual hours of work in a given year. The rest is mostly BS like e-mails and meetings. There’s some validity to the idea of ‘A Corporate Athlete,’ whereby you focus and train for the big moments — but that’s really hard to achieve in most jobs and in most roles. Most people chase the tasks that their boss tells them to chase, plain and simple.
But as you’re chasing those tasks, how can you manage your time the most effectively? Thankfully, here’s a manager at Google — a place that mostly understands people — with some ideas.
Here’s a post on Fast Company about managing your time, and here’s a video that might help you understand it:
