How to organise your leisure time in order to arrive at work on top form
How can we organize our leisure time and work in order to be more productive?
Before answering this question let’s make one thing clear: although time is a mathematically calculated unit consisting of minutes lasting 60 seconds, our perception of time changes according to the activity we are doing. If we are having  fun the hours fly by, whereas if we are bored they can seem endless.
Despite the results of various scientific studies which show that an individual’s productivity increases only when he or she is able to organise their leisure time freely, working people often struggle with the fact that, despite maintaining they don’t have enough time to dedicate to their private lives, they feel guilty for wishing for this so strongly.
How can we resolve such a paradox in order to arrive at work on top form?
According to Laura Vanderkam, author of the book ‘I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time’, the problem is not to be found in the lack of hours available for activities outside the workplace, but in a basic inability to organize these hours properly with due regard for our personal priorities.
Here then is a series of useful tips on how to organise our leisure time and working day as well as possible:
- Make a list of pleasant activities done during our leisure time
Before we begin a new year, it is a good idea to make a list of the things that have improved our existence. Whether it be a new hobby or times shared with friends and relatives, make a note of all these as actions to be repeated.
- Pencil in future plans on the calendar
After identifying those activities that have brought us happiness in the past, we should choose the activities that we would like to do or repeat in the future and pencil them in on the calendar in order to have a deadline for carrying them out again.
- Jot down in a diary details of those activities which make us waste our time
Anyone who believes that they never have time to do what they want, should try to understand what causes such considerable wasted time, by making a note of any superfluous activities in their diary. By using this procedure it is easier to identify which part of our day is dedicated to totally useless matters.
So these are our tips for organizing leisure time, so as to be more productive also during the working day; useful advice to follow and put into practice each day.
Translated by Joanne Beckwith
