Seven EXPLANATIONS WHY A Countdown Timer IS CRUCIAL In Effective Time ManagementPosted by Rogers Dencker on May 25th, 2021 Much is said time management. Nevertheless the term has begun to apply to a wide selection of subjects which range from list management, project management and even up to the idea of maintaining one's personal energy. Each one of these are important but we must consider the term itself. Time management, if one looks at the specific words, means, actually, the management of time. It includes the management of the seconds, minutes and the hours of our day. I've found, running several businesses and wearing many hats (as do most of us) that the use of a simple countdown timer could work wonders. I want to point out 7 reasons why utilizing a timer can help us get more done and even reduce stress. Here are 7 excellent reasons why all of us should be using a countdown timer: 1) Timers improve our awareness of time. A first rule in the successfully handling anything is to confront and become aware of it. In the same way we get overweight in life by idle eating and not really paying attention to what we put in our mouths, we can also waste our time as though it is a limitless possession. A large reason diets work is that they cause us to pay attention to what we are eating. Our use of calories, of money, and of our time expand beyond what we are in need of and what's healthy unless we become aware of how exactly we use these commodities. We have to be aware of these things to control them. Use of a timer is the way to become aware of and to control time. 2) Timers break time into manageable bits. Goals are best conquered in stages, in degrees and in steps. The hours in our day are no exceptions. Timers allow us to break our lives and activities into manageable bits. 3) Just as a diet contains a firm decision never to exceed our calorie consumption or fall shy of our agreed-upon exercise., a countdown timer, along with a personal agreement to play by the guidelines, will help keep us from straying from one task to another. Successful multitasking is a myth. We accomplish the most by doing things one at a time. The decision to use and to follow the countdown timer helps us to stick to our very own decisions and helps us to keep discipline in our use of time. 4) Timers help teach us to look at tasks with regard to units of time. Rather than just say "I am going shopping" one talks about the action as a 90 minute commitment and this helps to predict precisely how it fits in to the hours we have throughout the day. This imposes a sort of order on our time and our lives. This may certainly reduce stress. 5) Timers help an area wasted time and, actually, help us to evaluate if that time is actually wasted or not.. For instance, if we causatively reserve a finite period of time for interruptions and a timer, properly used, can help us control those interruptions. It is something similar to keeping a diary of what we eat-and the occasional shock as to how much we put away your waking hours. Utilizing a timer we can better allocate where we spend our time. 6) Using a timer allows us to understand the nature of action. All tasks, all actions that people do or take throughout the day are in fact cycles of action. A cycle of action always has a start, a change, and an end. This understanding can impose a an incredible amount of sanity into how exactly we operate in our lives. A timer is an excellent way of emphasizing this basic truth of life. 20 minute timer 7) There is nothing wrong with loafing. A countdown timer can put great control into our lies allowing us to get times to loaf, to play, to take a nap and to do all it guilt free. Again, with the diet metaphor, we love our desserts now and then but we must take care not to get carried away using them. Same with loafing time. A countdown timer helps us to make sure that we have time to play and helps us keep some control over those moments so that they are properly balanced with another important things in life. The use of timers is not a new concept. There is a time management technique called "The Pomodoro Technique" that is used by many for decades. The specifics of this are beyond the scope of this article but a timer is an integral part. We find timers on our smart phones and we are able to purchase little countdown timers at RadioShack and Walmart. Though a timer, used properly, will go far to boost the standard of our lives, the addition of a little bit of daily planning combined with the use of a timer will multiply the usefulness of that timer at least tenfold.Like it? Share it! More by this author |