Spontaneous planning or time management?

Once, having decided to become successful, you discover priceless information from knowledgeable gurus, hidden under the magical word "time management". You shovel a lot of information, which teaches you to plan your own time correctly, learn about self-discipline, constant control, and even start to keep a diary. After a while you realize that you can not exist, like a robot. Do dreams of success collapse? Fortunately, there is a reasonable alternative.

For those who hate rigid frames

We admit that we are all born with our own individual characteristics. Some of us are productive in the mornings, for someone the best period for inspiration is night. We are divided into introverts and extroverts, sanguine and choleric people, humanists and admirers of exact sciences. Someone controls the power of fire, someone has water, and somebody has air. Why do we think that all people should spend their time following strict recommendations and principles? If you are disgusted by time management, then you are an exception to the rules. But you can succeed if you pay attention to spontaneous planning. Let's highlight this issue in our today's publication.

Two diametrically opposed categories

People are divided into types, categories and types, based on the principles of different sciences. In this we have already made sure. However, if you combine all the existing features from the point of view of psychology, astrology, isotherics, numerology or sociology, you can single out two main and diametrically opposite categories. It's about rational and irrational personalities. If the first half has a sequence of actions, systematic, detailed and structured, the second half of people is guided by impulses and emotions. And that's fine. After all, the second category has prerequisites for creativity, improvisation and the ability to approach questions in an unconventional way.

Most modern theories of time management are suitable only for rationals. All tips and step-by-step instructions were written by the representatives of this category and are based on personal experience. To some extent, this is justified, because irrational personalities would never have thought of depicting on paper instruction on how to find inspiration. But if the second category of persons tries to join the camp of the opposite camp, this will not lead to the desired result. Breaking your own nature is unnatural and destructive for a person.

If an irrational person goes on an uncharacteristic way of managing time, the irreparable will happen. Such a person will burn emotionally and physically. This state will inevitably entail new problems. A person completely loses motivation and hates his own work.

Ideal working conditions for irrationals

All of what we said earlier, suggests the discomfort of working in harsh conditions with a large number of requirements. Irrational can not become a cog in a large and well-coordinated mechanism, he is disgusted with the idea of moving along a clear hierarchy of the career ladder. Faced with working with a management bureaucracy, this type of people feels as if it has no wings or no face. The best result they give in free swimming. They can successfully run their own business (and even a few) or become representatives of the creative intelligentsia. To achieve the best result and professional success, any work that does not have strict requirements and formalities will suit them.

Who is better?

Of course, we can not determine the champion in the marathon race for a lifetime. The classical canon of justice says: "To each his own." As we know, there are no ideally bad or ideally good people. All of us have advantages and disadvantages, there are pros and cons. Therefore, if you do not belong to the number of rational persons, do not be sad. This does not mean that you are any worse. Your inconstancy and windyness are on the way to completing the business started? It's just that you do not know how to uncover your own bottomless potential.

How to recognize yourself: signs of a rational person

Before you take as a basis a particular guide to time management, it is superfluous to identify which of the categories you belong to. Next, we will consider the distinctive features of the representatives of both "camps". Remember: it is not necessary that all the points coincide, it is enough that there will be a majority. You belong to the category of rationals, if:

• Calmly perform monotonous monotonous work.
• Love to follow clear instructions, have one big goal and a few small ones.
• Your working capacity does not depend on mood and emotions.
• You are uncomfortable feeling uncertain, you love control over the situation.
• Your things are laid out on the shelves, and each has its own place.
• You have mastered different methods of achieving goals. In case of failure, you use an alternative.
• Unforeseen circumstances that interfere with the achievement of the goal are angry with you, and sometimes derail.
• Reading a book, you are consistent and methodical.
• In the morning you know what to eat for dinner. Already in the middle of the week you know the exact time of a trip to the shopping center on the weekends.

If more than half of the signs have coincided, then you are a rational person. You can achieve great success in your chosen professional activities. You can be compared to a train driver. Each of your actions is thought out, and the scheduled tasks are performed on time.

Signs of an irrational person

In fact, irrationals on earth are no less than their opponents. Experts argue that the percentage of representatives of these categories is approximately the same. Before you are signs of an irrational person:

• Your performance depends entirely on your mood. Thus, you can often postpone work until better times.
• There is chaos and confusion in your home and workplace, and this does not bother you at all. So it's easier for you to find non-standard ideas.
• If you start to obey the laws of time management, it will inevitably lead you to failure.
• All your activities are spontaneous. You do not know where fate will take you tonight, but where for the next weekend.
• Working, you are always distracted, you return to the task, and then you are distracted again.
• You have many goals and strive to succeed in several ways.
• If something does not work for you, you immediately switch to the next target. You can not imagine that you can change the very method of achievement.
• Monotony at work or in studies depresses you. Instead, you do not mind doing the job in a game form.
• You are too unpredictable and spontaneous. However, these traits become your trump card, if it comes to making decisions under conditions of time pressure or force majeure. Lack of control over the situation does not frighten you at all.
• You can not read a book or study new material in strict sequence.

If you have more than half of these signs, you can be compared to an SUV driver. Traveling, at any time you can deviate from the planned route and turn onto a country road. Irrational thinking gives you some advantages. You will not stand in a traffic jam waiting for your turn. You know a lot of bypasses. You react to changing circumstances lightning fast, which is what will bring you success. If you manage to reveal your potential, the people around you will be amazed.

How to succeed?

In order to succeed, such people need to transform their own weaknesses and weaknesses into strengths. By and large these flaws seem so only for rational personalities. So, for example, the main weak side of irrationals is considered to be the inability to bring the case to the end. However, in a string of ideas, a "gold mine" can be hidden. If a person has left enthusiasm, then so be it. Do not step on your throat to your own song. In reality, these people can easily move in different directions simultaneously. We all remember the example of the great Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar. Legend has it that he knew how to do a dozen different things at the same time. You must move away from monotony and routine and take on the arsenal of multitasking.

Conclusion

Do whatever comes to your mind, and spontaneously switch to various activities. Probably, you do not suspect that you can work in a furious rhythm. The main thing is that the cause of interest and joy.