How to take control of your time

You feel like your life is a mess, you don’t really know what you are doing or where you are going. All humans felt like that at least one time in their lives, it’s –in the most cases- due to the fact that you lost control over your time, and you need to start making some changes in your lifestyle to get back that control.

These changes are actually behaviors that will greatly help you out start managing your time effectively. In this article, i will give you a look over 5 of these changes you need to make.

Stop overthinking

Overthinking is one of the greatest wastes of time and energy that consumes you and make you lose control over your whole life. Overthinkers spend an excessive amount of time to just do some simple daily tasks because they are exhausted, unable to focus and spending more time thinking about everything. How to deal with overthinking.

Correct your sleeping behavior

To be able to take control over your time, to be productive and more energetic, you have to get 7 to 8 hours of sleep every day and go to sleep early. Stop cutting out sleep time and turning it into work or fun time, it may work for a week, a year or even more, but one day you will start feeling that you are physically and mentally extremely tired and exhausted.

You will start having the habit of sleeping in the day (in other words, sleeping in the hours you are supposed to be productive and “alive”), or suffering from sleeping disorders, procrastinating your tasks, etc. 

You can take a look at the lifestyle of the most successful, productive and happy people you know, I guarantee you that they have the habit of getting enough sleep and waking up early to do some exercises, take the dog for a walk, prepare a healthy breakfast, or maybe complete some work tasks and yet still have all the day available for them to take care of their responsibilities.

Get rid of manipulators and profiteers

This type of toxic people will consume your time and energy by giving you extra heavy tasks and responsibilities to care about without a reward and sometimes not even recognition. You have to learn to say No firmly and politely, without being intimidated or completely bring this kind of people out of your life and stay away from them if possible.

Take breaks during work

This habit will make you stay productive and focused the whole day, and keep you motivated to complete all your programmed tasks. Taking breaks will also break the routine of work and have a positive effect on your mood.

Share responsibility

If you are trying to take the whole world over your shoulder, and take care of everything in your life by your own, of course, you will get short in time, get overwhelmed and lose control. Sharing responsibility and tasks will allow you to have more time to work on the most important things and achieve your goals faster.