We offer you 5 tips from Cal Newport, who works as a professor at the university, prepares 6 scientific articles per year, has written 4 books, leads a blog, a caring father and husband, but never leaves work after 17:30.

1. Lists of affairs - is evil. Compose yourself schedule

Lists themselves are useless. They only your first step. You must create a clear schedule. What for? This will help you plan out what you can do really. This will allow you to perform a specific task at a time when you will be able to execute it most effectively, and not just because it goes number four on the list.

Experts agree that if you do not count the exact time it takes to perform tasks, you advance doom yourself to failure.

Do you want to stop being a procrastinator? Schedule will help you. Here is what Cal:

Knowing that you have a clear scope of work planned out already reduces the desire to delay the execution of deeds. You do not think about whether or not to you now to work - the decision has already been taken.

2. Install the hard border

Imagine that you are going to go home at 17:30, and then plan your business, which will have time to do up to this time. The work will take itself all the time you are allotted to her. Give her 24 hours seven days a week, and be sure the work will absorb all of these 168 hours.

Set yourself a deadline: you go home from work at 17:30. Then plan out the volume of tasks that you will be able to master this time. Cal calls this performance due to tough schedule.

But do not forget that you should protect yourself from overtime. You have to feel that control your schedule. The more you feel in control, the less stress you are experiencing.

3. Make a plan of the current week

I think you will agree that short-term plans - it's not cool. If you think only about today, you never find yourself in front.

That's what it says Cal: "People do not like to look at the long-term plans, but forget what benefits they can bring to them. I know what I'm doing his every hour, every day of your. I know what I'm doing each of his week. I know what I do every month of his life.

Are you surprised? You think specifically for you is difficult? Easier than you think. What do I really need?

One hour in the morning on Mondays. Only".

If you write a plan of cases, the more likely it will be to stick to: you will have something tangible, not perfect, it will remind you of your priorities.

4. Follow smaller tasks, but do it with enthusiasm

You should be less cases than we have now. Remember that not all your doing such important what seem to want. Ask yourself, "What's really valuable to me in my life?". And then cover as much unnecessary.

Here is what Cal:

We have always been appreciated for what we do best. So, if you want to be successful, not sprayed, let you perform tasks less, but you will be able to perform them more efficiently. People say "yes" too often. I have many, many say "no."

5. Focus on the higher priority

People who often work on weekends and at night, feel that they are doing a lot less than those who say goodbye to work at five in the evening. This is because they work a lot, but the importance of the tasks carried out by them is small.

Let you be the time in which you dedicate only a priority. Getting started is not an easy thing?

The main thing - stop in the morning the first thing to check e-mail. Tim Ferriss, author of the bestseller "How to work for 4 hours per week", explains it this way: "Try not to check e-mail in the first two hours after waking. Yeah, maybe you really should get into your e-mail and gather information that will allow you to complete the task at 100%. But you can start to perform it at 80 or 90%, and then climb into your emails for more information. So you will protect yourself from the morning of unnecessary and extraneous details that are sure to switch your attention, and will be able to devote themselves exclusively to the work. "