How To Work Less And Accomplish More

In order to accomplish more you don’t need to work more. No, I don’t mean you should always try to find the easy way out no matter how important the work is because always remember that your work is more important than the time you spend on it. When I talk about working less I mean using your time efficiently and not wasting it on things that you shouldn’t be doing.

While working on various projects sometimes you don’t realize that you are doing scores of things like checking emails, installing/uninstalling software, reading online articles and blog posts that you don’t need to read, or chatting on the phone when you should be focusing on the work at hand. Managing time efficiently becomes more difficult when you work as a freelancer; unless you develop a strong habit of managing your tasks and time you are not going to achieve your full potential.

Even when you’re doing the job it is difficult to manage your time efficiently. I remember when I was working in G. E. most of my colleagues and even the project managers used to waste lots of time loitering around in the office premises, chatting with people drinking coffee all the time, spending unnecessarily long hours in meetings and doing scores of other things but the actual work. Consequently even after the office hours they were spending more hours in the office. I on the other hand used to do my work quickly and hence was able to leave office on time. Sadly the superiors thought that those people were more hard working. Fortunately I’m very finicky about wasting my time; I left the job in three months to concentrate on my own projects.

A blog post at LifeHack tells you how you can spend less time on work and do more work.