Benjamin Franklin, being the fifteenth child in family, finally became one of the most famous and successful people of the time. He was a unique person, the person who was in time too much from the point of view of inhabitants.
Problem of a lack of time – "disease" of 21 centuries which is suffered practically by all. It is the real epidemic. As illness medicine, many Americans and Europeans use a technique of the organization of time of legendary Benjamin Franklin.
Method essence
Classics of timing assumes accounting of already used time, i.e. the analysis in a retrospective. Franklin went by contradiction, it placed emphasis on planning, i.e. on what needs to be made in the future.
Stages of planning of time
- We establish paramount vital values, i.e. what we want from life. Define that it is important for you: glory, money, family. Your purposes should not contradict each other.
- Statement of the key purposes in life. We concretize the previous priorities. For example, if you want to be rich, then put for the purpose to earn 1 million dollars.
- We make the master plan. It is, in essence, specification of the previous point. You want to have one million dollars, so you need to construct successful business for what to get a necessary education, to develop practical experience in a concrete field of activity, etc.
- We plan a long-term outlook. We make the plan for several years in which not only we specify the purposes, but also we depict quite certain terms. If, for example, for achievement of the global purpose you need to learn English, then in the plan this point has to look so: "I will learn language in 2 years". If you are too lazy to establish term, then chances of achievement of the goal at you will be a little.
- We make the plan for several weeks or months – a short-term outlook. Do you still want one million and remember that for this purpose it is necessary to tighten English? Means, we write in this point of the plan: "Tomorrow it is necessary to choose courses. In a week to file documents. In 2 weeks to start occupations".
- We plan the tomorrow. For example, to choose courses of foreign languages, you buy the reference book of educational institutions, will visit the thematic websites, call Lev Sergeyevich who ended recently, according to him, "quite good courses". It will be just remarkable if you state concrete time of commission of any given actions in the plan.
We revise the plan
It is recommended to make to your "program" corrections from time to time. Revise plans for the near future once a week, strategic plans for several years – time in half a year, the master plan – once in a year. Also annually analyze relevance for you the global purpose, perhaps, you do not want one million dollars any more, and dream of family with 15 children, as at Franklin.
Day plan
For it, from the point of view of Franklin, it is necessary to make the following plate where "Pr." is a priority of a task:
Sort affairs per day by the principle: it needs extremely to be made; it, just in case, can wait; I will be engaged in it if there is a minute. If it is correct to plan day and productively to work, then it is quite possible that by the evening you appear already at the end of the list.
It would seem, all these rules are simple, as clear as a day. There is nothing difficult or impossible. But practice shows that most of us is lazy to plan the day or is not able to place tasks of priority truly. As a result we hear constant complaints to a time trouble of which the chief, the president or global warming is guilty. You are worthy other life, just begin with yourself, and Franklin method will help you.
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