The 3 Step Process to 10x Your Time Management

If someone had to ask me to pick a superpower, my first option is always to be able to time travel or stop time whenever I wanted to.

Time is our most valuable resource — and when we don’t spend our time with intention we end up getting overwhelmed and waste even more time by indulging into bad dopamine:

• Netflix

• Social media

• Video Games

• Sugar

• Fast Food

Think about all those times when you got overwhelmed because you didn’t know what to do next and went onto your bed scrolling through your phone.

Next thing you know you would have wasted hours of mindless scrolling through social media.

When we lose control over our time we also lose control over our minds. Without structuring our day, our mind will be much more vulnerable to distraction and procrastination.

Through years of trying and failing with different methods, I have finally found a system which has allowed me to keep up with all the things that are important to me.

The Irony of It All: How Being Tied to a Schedule Gives You More Freedom 

Some would argue that being too rigid with your schedule will make you go insane and lack freedom — I disagree.

Whether you achieve freedom or not depends on how you define freedom. If freedom for you is using your phone for 3 hours because you have no idea what you should be doing instead — then congratulations, you’re free.

But my definition of freedom is having time scheduled for all the things which actually give meaning to your life.

Things like:

• Meeting up with friends

• Working on your own business

• Reading

• Hobbies

• Exercise

If you do not define what tasks you will be accomplishing during different times of the day, your mind will be overwhelmed because it has no sense of direction and you’ll just end up wasting your time trying to figure out what to do next.

Putting it Into Perspective

When I started my first year of medical school I thought that I would only have time for studying.

I would study from 6am til 8pm — and as you might easily guess, most of this time was filled with me wasting time because our brains cannot handle 14 hours of studying at one go.

Basically, I would still end up taking breaks — but without intention.

I would go onto my bed and waste an hour on my phone.

Later on I started to realise that I was actually getting about 7 hours of work done, so I decided to actually block that time and do just that.

The remaining 7 hours which I would waste my time on would now be filled with stuff like:

• Learning to play the guitar

• Gym

• Reading

• Coding and Writing

• Time with my family

3 Steps to 10x Your Time Management

Here’s how to take action after reading all of this:

• List down all the tasks you want to get done in a day

• Specify how much time you want to spend on each task

• Put each task as a time block in Google Calendar or any other calendar app — start with the hardest task first

This might seem like something very simple but it works wonders.

Now you have structure and direction.

Take action.