{"id":159,"date":"2017-01-02T09:49:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T09:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.birlaschoolkalyan.com\/?p=159"},"modified":"2017-01-02T09:58:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T09:58:40","slug":"save-time-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blog.birlaschoolkalyan.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/02\/save-time-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"SAVE TIME \u2013 PRODUCTIVITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Selwyn Francis<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Teacher<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t change the number of hours in a day, but you can fill them more efficiently, with less stress and mental effort. You\u2019ve likely heard this before, and perhaps your past efforts at time management have been, well, a waste of time. But most people\u2019s attempts to increase productivity get derailed by two virtues of modern living: technology and options. Today\u2019s onslaught of tech \u2014 smartphones, iPads, search engines, social media \u2014 is fragmenting our attention spans, gumming our mental gears with useless facts, and turning us into surface-level thinkers. At the same time, all the communication choices we have today \u2014 email, IM (Instant messaging), Skype or Gmail chat \u2014 are thwarting <!--more-->efficiency. But we don\u2019t have to give up technology to regain control. \u201cYou need to set expectations of yourself and other people,\u201d Here, four ways to manage time.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>&#10003; Finish simple tasks.<\/strong><br \/>\n <strong>&#10003; Break up complex tasks.<\/strong><br \/>\n <strong>&#10003; Build willpower.<\/strong><br \/>\n <strong>&#10003; Limit your choices<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selwyn Francis Teacher You can\u2019t change the number of hours in a day, but you can fill them more efficiently, with less stress and mental effort. You\u2019ve likely heard this before, and perhaps your past efforts at time management have been, well, a waste of time. But most people\u2019s attempts to increase productivity get derailed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.birlaschoolkalyan.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/02\/save-time-productivity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SAVE TIME \u2013 PRODUCTIVITY&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teacher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.birlaschoolkalyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.birlaschoolkalyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.birlaschoolkalyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.birlaschoolkalyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.birlaschoolkalyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.birlaschoolkalyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.birlaschoolkalyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.birlaschoolkalyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.birlaschoolkalyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.birlaschoolkalyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}