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we are therefore shows, if you haven't already just search for optimal living daily, where reassuring the show and the others should pop right up. But for today's episode this is a continuation from yesterday's of your new here. I'd recommend listen to yesterday's episode. First, sometimes I break posts up in a two, because it be too long for one episode so I caught up. Let's get right to part to an continue optimizing life how to make accurate time estimates part two by C4, Lena of Sea family in a dark, come define clear task boundaries maker tasks are clearly defined, vague or nebulous task or hard to estimate. If one of my tasks is update accounting, I can't be certain of what that includes. Does I mean bouncing in my checking account doing payroll filling out tax arms recording receives. If I want to make a reliable estimate, I need a clear picture of

I'll be doing. You may find a helpful to list a few key words, the components of an otherwise unclear task? You don't certainly need to estimate the time for each sang meant. You just need to be able to visualize but you'll be doing. The key words can help try is a right imagery, so you can make it better estimate. You should be able to quickly verbalize a first and last steps of each task. For example, when I see Atasca labels right new blog entry, I know that the first step is to pick a topic. The last step is to click the publish button. If you can't name the first and last steps of a task on your list, your task doesn't have clear boundaries. In that case, you need to take a moment to define those steps or you'll need to define your task. A little more clearly, possibly by breaking into smaller chugs good estimates, require clear start in finnish boundaries, Be especially careful to consider what will be required to bring a task to one hundred percent. Completion of your task is to pay your bills. To that end, when you write the checks,

deposit payments in the mail or complete online payment process when you file to pay bills, filing cabinet or when you. What's your cheque book, don't forget to consider how long a tasty up and put away you're materials, even if he urges making dinner. There will be dishes to attend to afterwards reuse estimates for recurring tasks. Once you ve completed a recurring task, make a record of the time choir for completion seeking reuse, that estimate of the future one that task reappears honour to do list. You can simply look up your old estimate. These estimates will be fairly act because they're based on previous results, not previous estimates. I recommend a green estimation list for your common recurring tasks here. Two methods for doing that method: one simple version for very bad sick estimation list, you'll need to record a single figure for each task. Just note how long the task took to complete the last time you did it.

Your simple estimation, less might look something like this gross shopping. Fifty five minutes making eat dinner. Forty two minutes vacuum house. Eighty three minutes. Wash fold and put away laundry, seventy five minutes and so on. Was he built a good list of time estimates for recurring tasks in great, a very reasonable plan for your day by adding tasks, to reschedule method, to detail version for a more complex version. You can record for figures for each task number one. The number of times have completed the task since he started keeping records member to your best, a minimum time to complete the task number three, your worst maximum time to complete the task a number for your average time to complete the task. You can use these figures for making reliable estimates in the future. The men max range.

Tells you how reliable your estimates are likely to be whenever you complete each task again take a moment up to your figures in practice. This won't take much time at all, be with a fairly accurate list of estimates, to update your average task time. Using this method multiply number one by number: four had the time required to complete the most recent rapid the and then divide the result by number one plus one. For example, if you promise Completed a task ten times averaging thirty minutes per repetition and the eleventh repetition takes thirty five minutes in your new average? Is ten I'm thirty plus thirty, five divided by temples, one which equals calls thirty point for five minutes. This method allows you to keep updating your average without having recourse all of your previous task completion times. If you record your best minimum time to complete a task,

also use that to challenge yourself. Beating a previous record can motivate you to maintain a faster tempo at the very least, try to beat your average time putting the clock. Self can push you to work a little faster, especially for repetitive task, That might otherwise seem a bit door for most people. I recommend method. One method to is probably, kill unless you're really committed optimizing. Your time, usage learning to better time. Estimates is a useful scale to develop when all serve you well for life. As you heard, are actually quite easy to implement becoming a bit. Estimated may improve your life or the tactical level of daily time management, but be careful not to lose sight of the strategic level. Have you taken a time You d find your life purpose or you setting the right goals. Are you working right, career, mastering low level tactics, war. Provide much value when you're overall lystra

She is nonsensical or non existent. Even so, accurate estimation can benefit you across a variety of feels. So so its skill to develop early in life. It still ok to develop this skill before you you'd clarity at the higher levels of life purpose. A long term goals just be sure that at some point you remember pretend to those higher levels, seed or merely become a faster rat on a treadmill You just listen a part two of the post titled how to make accurate time estimates by Sea Lena of Steve, Adelina, dot com keep sending really short by, while your other listening, if you haven't yet checked out, are other for podcast, where we marry blogs for you, please do just search for up, Living daily, wherever you during this, and they should show up now bearing a great weekend, have a great day and

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