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Learning how to balance many different tasks in your life can be challenging. Work, study, and everyday chores can pile up on you, while friends or family ask for help. Taking care of yourself time is also quite important. When you maintain a daily schedule, these tasks seem more manageable. By simply designing a specific schedule, you can balance your short-term goals with your long-term goals. This will help you figure out what's important in your life to prioritize.

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Method 1 of 4: Design a Daily Schedule

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   Recognize how you normally spend your time. Before you figure out how to optimize your time, think about how you manage your day-to-day tasks. If you have to go to school or work, then that time is definitely within your control. But in your spare time, you need to be more flexible.
   • Spend a few days keeping track of how you spend your time. Write down exactly what you do every day. Pay attention to how you manage your free time. Do you take the time to play video games or clean the house? Make a list of those activities and see how much time you spend on them.

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   Estimate how much time you spend going to school, work, and assignments. Chances are you have spent too much time in the day just commuting from home to school, work or vice versa, and handling odd jobs. So it's time to manage the time of your day and complete important tasks. Recognize how long it takes to commute and divide enough time in your schedule to get from one place to another.
   • Adjust your schedule based on this time period.

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   Determine when you are most productive. When designing your daily schedule, think about how to organize a series of tasks to do. It's a good idea to rearrange a few tasks to maximize productivity. For example, think about when you are most productive. Determine when you are easily distracted by answering phone calls or emails. You will probably find yourself doing your best early in the morning, while midday will be a time when you will be overwhelmed by phone calls.

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   Pay attention to how your habits affect your daily life. Maintaining a schedule has many benefits to knowing how your habits affect your everyday life. Sometimes these are bad habits that can make you feel unhappy or prevent you from reaching your goals. Several other habits are also important for such things to happen. When you try to schedule a time management, think about the role habits play in your life.
   • For example, you might spot a trend in your life when you're tired of an activity you enjoy. So you no longer have the passion or the energy to do something else, like working towards a longer-term goal. On the other hand, you may spend all your time responding to one social need after another, so you never take the time to take care of yourself. Each of these habits has the same impact on personal happiness. Therefore, it is important to review how your habits affect your life.
   • As you begin to realize that habits are preventing you from achieving your goals and desires, think about how to change them to give you more time. The simple way is that you set limits on certain activities, like playing a video game. Allow yourself to play the video game after you have completed a quest related to your long-term goal. Or learn to say no when someone asks you to do something to give you time to take care of yourself.

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   Reduce wasted time. There are times during the day where you let time go to waste. There are unavoidable times, such as commuting in the morning or going to the post office at lunchtime, are also the busiest times. Look at your schedule and think when time is wasted. Think of ways to rearrange your schedule to minimize wasted time.
   • If you can't rearrange everything, consider if you can do multiple things at the same time. For example, you will have free time in the morning when going to work by bus. So you can sip coffee while reading a novel in the car.

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   Schedule the day from the night before. It is best to schedule one day in advance. If you do not schedule in advance, you may have to take time to address work-related issues. Don't think that you can think of a solution from day one, or even the first week.
   • Schedule the activity simulation for the next day, in which you will list all the activities you want to complete and how long you want to spend on each activity. It can allow some flexibility for you to adapt to the planned time budget.
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Method 2 of 4: Balance the Short-Term Mission and the Long-Term Goal

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   Combine long-term goals with daily activities. While thinking of what you will do every day may sound simple, this is the most difficult and most important step to learning how to maintain a daily schedule. Thinking of goals and achieving them is not always easy. Plus, what you want to do now may not change in line with your long-term goals. It's best to balance those activities and goals, not just focus on one thing.
   • Set long-term goals. Do you already have a job or career that you have ever pursued? Would you like to have better friendships with someone you know well? Maybe you want to form a sports team at school. No matter what your goals are, writing them down on paper can help to materialize each goal rather than keeping an image of them in mind.
   • Make a list of additional things you can do to start your journey to goal. Set aside time each day to do goal-oriented activities.

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   Analyze the goals you have achieved by yourself or by others. Asking for advice from others can help you come up with your goals. But it's important to realize that your goals are really related to your own passions and desires. Your daily schedule may include a number of tasks that are not consistent with your goals.
   • For example, do your parents want you to do something, like a lawyer or a doctor? While that desire is often a parent's desire for their children to be happy and successful, this career path can make them unhappy and unhappy. So telling your parents that what they want can make you unable to be independent is the first step in making you feel comfortable coming up with a goal for yourself. The worst part is that you have to go through life with what other people want you to do and never think about what really makes you happy.
   • When deciding on a long-term goal for yourself, think about how it aligns with your visitor's expectations. You cannot completely avoid the responsibilities, obligations and expectations of others. But you can start a time management plan to give your best to your goals.

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   Prioritize your to-do list. There will be some tasks on the list that you need to tackle right away. Other missions may be postponed. As you create a strategy for your daily schedule, schedule time to tackle the most pressing tasks.
   • Maybe you have a few similar quests a day, while another quest only appears once. You can adjust the schedule to accommodate some one-off activities.Mark an amount of time of the day as a "flexible" time period. This amount of time can be used to handle unexpected work. If you don't have a task to do during the day, use your spare time to strive for long-term goals, like exercising or playing the guitar.
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Method 3 of 4: Write down a Daily Schedule

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   Find the best way to record schedules. Writing down your schedule for the day is one of the best ways to make sure you stick to it at all times. If you can easily see your schedule, then you will make it a habit to regularly check your schedule every day. And then find the method that works best for you. So you can see the schedule right when you need a reminder what to do next.
   • Some people like to write a calendar in a daily journal. Others prefer to follow it on a laptop or tablet. There are also many applications on the phone that are used for scheduling.
   • If you use your computer or phone to record schedules, you can set reminders to remind you of approaching important tasks due to completion dates.

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   Divide a day into 30-minute intervals. When you start thinking of a schedule, break up a day into half-hour intervals. Each of those times will be managed to solve certain tasks. So you don't need to schedule every minute precisely.

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   Do the necessary work first. During the day, you will certainly have mandates that need to be completed within a given time. For example, you might need to take your kids to school at 8am, and pick them up at 3pm. So first fix this job in your schedule.

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   Fixed a "flexible" time period. After you have written down the tasks that must be done on your schedule, look at the amount of time you have no specific tasks. It is "flexible" time. Now look at your long-term goals and start recording activities that help you accomplish your long-term goals on your schedule.
   • The flexible timing can be used to handle unexpected tasks or last minute jobs.

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   Refer to the schedule regularly. When starting to make adjustments to your schedule, you should consult your schedule regularly. That will remind you of all the activities planned. It also helps you keep track of yourself so that you don't spend too much time on another activity or task.

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   Adjust the schedule as needed. When you start working on the daily schedule, you can evaluate how well this schedule is working. Evaluate how much time you spend on other tasks.
   • Make sure to set long-term goals on your schedule so that you can be sure of achieving them.
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Method 4 of 4: Make Time for Yourself

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   Have an idea of ​​taking time to care for yourself. Scheduling not only helps you be productive but also responds to your social needs. This also helps you relax and happy. For example, researchers have shown that students who ensure a good self-care schedule can better deal with stress and achieve success goals.
   • Each person has a different way of taking care of themselves. This could be meditating, sleeping in the middle of the hour, playing video games, talking on the phone with friends, or other activities. Find out which activities are most effective for comfort and / or stress relief.

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   Set a time in your schedule to take care of yourself. Fixed time is time you just spend for yourself. While you understand that taking care of yourself is essential, you may not be able to really make time for yourself unless you make a specific schedule.
   • Plan a monthly massage, or play a video game for 30 minutes a day. Taking time for yourself will make it easier to tackle difficult tasks.

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   Reward yourself for successful performance according to the schedule. When you succeed in managing your daily time according to your schedule, reward yourself for your efforts. Keep your favorite sweets in your pocket and enjoy them when you complete an activity on your schedule. This positive reinforcement can help you connect some of the real changes in your behavior to your emotional comfort. advertisement