Time is, or indeed should be, the most treasured commodity anyone can possess, and even with all the money in the world and a physically and emotionally healthy mind and body, without any time, nothing is important.
Modern-day responsibilities are often a lot more complicated and take a lot more time than they should, especially if you are someone who always wants to help out friends and family members with any and all of their problems and tasks.
Here are four helpful tips for saving time on mundane tasks.
Utilise Online Services
Firstly, even if you are someone who distrusts the takeover of technology in recent years, you cannot possibly deny that ordering online saves time and often money rather than heading to the high street.
An established and registered UK pharmacy, such as Chemist Click Online Pharmacy, will be able to arrange monthly deliveries of not only your own prescriptions but everyone else in the household, too, meaning you never have to factor in numerous pharmacy trips again.
You are also able to purchase additional items not on prescription from such online pharmacies, such as travel sickness tablets, cough medicine and things for your baby.
Task-Grouping
For some people, multitasking is simply something they cannot do, and they feel as if when trying to complete two tasks together, both the quality and the accuracy of the two jobs will suffer.
However, there is another option, and this is known as task-grouping. Essentially, this involves sitting down and achieving similar jobs at the same time, such as when sending your tax return, also organising your other official documents in the same folder.
Design a Family Task Schedule
If you are sharing your life and your home with a partner, school-age children and an array of furry friends, with the obvious exception of the latter, everyone should be chipping in to make household chores and tasks easier.
The best way to make sure everyone pulls their weight is to design a family schedule for household tasks and keep it in a communal area, such as the kitchen, with different colours for each person.
Learn How to Prioritise
Although a cliché, it is absolutely accurate to say that procrastination is the thief of time, and more often than not, the completion of a certain mundane task itself takes a fraction of the time you spend dreading it.
Learning how to prioritise will make a huge difference to how efficient and productive you are, both in terms of your home life and in the context of your career. Luckily, there are many methods of working to hone your skills at prioritising, including writing a fresh list of ‘things to do’ every single morning, ticking them off once completed and tackling what you deem to be the most difficult and time-consuming tasks first.
In addition, try and stick to a schedule when it comes to a certain project and differentiate between the necessary and the merely desirable.
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