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A lot of articles on time management simply regurgitate so called ‘successful people’s habits’ or show off the author’s own daily schedules. They are full of common sense and general advice that does nothing concrete to help you do more with your time. Here’s how I’ve managed to be so efficient myself in time management despite needing a good 8-hours of sleep every night.
1. Work from home (and eliminate travel time)
On average most of us spend an hour or two commuting to and from work. For most of my life I’ve worked from home whenever possible. I wake up, switch on the laptop and work as I sip my coffee.
Taking away 52 weekends and 21 vacation days per year, if you eliminate just one hour of commuting time every day you would save 240 hours (or 10 days) in a year!
If a person on average spends 35 years of his life working then that amounts to 350 days saved; almost a whole year of your life not wasted in traffic jams or surfing Facebook in the subway!
