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Naveen Soni
Naveen Soni

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How to manage your time ?

We have to manage our time efficiently. It's one of the most important thing to accomplish to become a successful developer.
It's really hard to accomplish but if you try to do it every single day, it'll be easier over time⏱️.

First prioritize your important tasks.📝

Divide large tasks into small pieces.📌

Complete harder tasks within the first hours of your day.😪

Stay away from the time wasters in your productive hours.📵

Plan your relaxation time before hand, it's also essential.😌

Don't try to do multi-task at one time. It's a myth.↔️

Don't try to be a perfectionist. Nothing will we fully perfect.👌

Thanks for reading !😃

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Javier ⚛️

Divide and conquer, a winning technique no matter if it's computer science or something else 😁.

I do timeboxing. I set block specific time intervals on my calendar to do pretty much everything, whether it is checking email or writing code, that way I am indistractable.

Starting with the hard tasks first is also something I tend to do. Once you achieve them it gives you a boost that motivates you to finish the other ones.

About avoiding perfectionism, done is better than perfect 🔥. Making it perfect takes too much effort and the rewards then to be miniscule, think the pareto principle.

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Naveen Soni

Great🙏

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Ashok Gelal

I couldn't agree more with "Complete harder tasks within the first hours of your day." I don't spend time reading/replying emails, for an example, when I first sit down in front of the computer. I start getting right into thinking about the hard problem.

I like the list. Thanks for sharing!

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Naveen Soni

Welcome 🙏

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Bruce Axtens

Plan to and stick to the plan to get adequate sleep. Sufficient restful sleep is very important.

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Mik Seljamaa 🇪🇪

You can cycle and read for example.
Multichannel multitasking does work. Keep it unitasking per channel. You can't really read and YouTube tutorials at the same time.