Secure your own time

When you can’t secure time for yourself due to work or housework, and this situation continues, both your body and mind can’t refresh, and fatigue accumulates.

Even if you sleep, the fatigue doesn’t go away, and you fall into a vicious cycle where physical and mental damage accumulates further.

You may have experienced this at least once.

I myself was once unable to secure time as I wanted, and I couldn’t refresh my body and mind well.

If you can’t refresh your body and mind, you can’t deal with work or housework as you want, and as a result, I repeated mental disorders.

It was when I was thinking that somehow, I could secure my own time well and keep my body and mind in good condition.

I came across the book “Why Your Work Doesn’t End - Speed is the Strongest Weapon” (Bunkyo Company) by Satoshi Nakajima, a former Microsoft engineer.

The two points that were particularly helpful in the book are as follows:

① Start work early in the morning

By starting work from 4 am, a serene environment where no one disturbs (until the family wakes up at 6:30) is maintained, and you can concentrate on work.

In the early morning, no one will call, email, meet, etc., so you can “proceed with things as you want”.

② “Work with the 2:8 rule”

For example, “If it’s a job that takes 10 days, finish 80% of the job in the first 2 days”.

It’s the same for how to use one day, concentrate on finishing 80% of the day’s work in the early morning two and a half hours (from 4 am to when the family wakes up at 6:30).

By doing so, the remaining 80% of the time will have room, and you can refresh by taking a nap or handle non-urgent work with ease.

I decided to proceed with “both work and housework” ahead of schedule from the day after reading this book.

I didn’t wake up at 4 am like the author, but I changed my habit to wake up at 5 am.

In terms of work, no one calls or emails for about 3 hours from the start of work, so I naturally became able to concentrate on my own.

In the early morning hours, the concentration does not break, and I could feel that the efficiency of work dramatically increased.

Furthermore, as work and efficiency increased, I was able to finish work early, and I was able to allocate the time after work as my own time.

In terms of housework, I was able to complete it by the time the family woke up.

Because the morning housework is completed, even if the family wakes up, there is no need to rush to deal with it, and I feel that the conversation between families has increased more than before.

After work and housework, in my own time, I was able to refresh by reading a hobby, taking a nap, or taking a walk.

Being able to secure reading time, I was able to meet books that are good for me one after another, and a better cycle is starting to be born.

Please try the method of securing your own time by waking up early.

Change your 24 hours and you will change your life.

Eric Thomas