Applying chaotic time management correctly: plan & order for success?

Rigid schedulingMethods have long been considered outdated, because reality often changes faster than you can imagine to plan can. messy Time management so sounds tempting. A reality check.

Chaotic time management: a self-test

Some time ago I read something about chaotic time management. It goes something like this: Work through the urgent things, leave everything else and see what happens. But it can fast become an endless spiral. At first I thought that was complete nonsense. But the thought has stuck with me ever since.

So I tried it myself. My conclusion: If I leave a lot behind, I soon don't know where to put it Head stands - and an endless spiral is created because the loose ends become endless. But what exactly does that look like?

3 steps to chaotic time management

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Work through the urgent matters, leave everything else behind and see what happens - Chaotic time management essentially runs in 3 steps:

1. You have to wait and be able to do without. Wait until something has settled by itself. If not, you can get up to personal top form and get it quickly. Wait for someone else to do it. The work finally goes where it is done. If possible, avoid being there.
2. Avoid planning, it always comes differently than you think. Better wait and see how it actually happens. Then you improvise, and you're guaranteed to get it sorted out. At the same time you train your surprise skills and soon you can not scare anything.
3. Stay underorganized and refrain from such pointless activities as cleaning up your desk and dropping it off. You've saved more time than you ever need to search. Avoid the nonsense of making important things artificially urgent, as the planners do.

Should you try it

Now I am not a fan of fixed time management plans - I see something as a guide rather than a "must-do!" First, it turns out differently, and second, than you think. Therefore, in my experience, a rigid planning corset is rather a hindrance. However, don't plan exactly like that. Because what you plan or do is more likely to be followed through.

But the IdeaI found it quite attractive not to stick to rigid planning lists. And so I started a self-test: Work through the urgent things, leave everything else and see what happens.

Everything at the last minute?

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First of all, there is the idea of ​​putting off everything until the last minute. It caters to the tendency that most of us fall under Stress and pressure mean to be more effective. In addition, we are particularly good at procrastinating when it comes to important things – for example, because we actually Anxiety ahead of the task or just sees a mountain of work and doesn't know where to start.

To be honest, I think that's pretty daring. Remember the stories of friends who had their hard drives wiped off the day before submitting their master’s thesis or something similar. Therefore… clear, some things really take care of themselves: I recently wanted to call my ex-gas supplier, but knew that it would cost me an infinite amount of time on hold. Then I found out on Twitter that he was broke. I could give myself the call! ;-)

The thing with the loose ends

But the most important argument: Who has the nerve to postpone an important task until the end and remain calm and relaxed? As a rule, you are only really relaxed once you have done the thing. Or am I the only one who does it like that? So my tip: Better do the thing right away, then you can continue working more calmly.

That is also my main criticism of the chaotic time management: Like in that Article described, too many loose ends remain. In my self-test, I have focused on one important thing in recent weeks: my new book, which will be published in September. With tunnel vision and blinders, I was really able to do a lot. However, the mountains of paper piled up on the left and right. Worse were the imaginary loose ends in the head. I knew that there was a lot left and I always had a guilty conscience.

Chaotic time management and reality

So I had to take a break to work through and sort everything out. Lo and behold, I'm feeling better now. But that wasn't exactly relaxing. A balanced mix between main quest and side quests would be for sure been better.

The experiment “Chaotic Time Management” failed for me. Maybe make to-do lists again next time? Or is it just not possible to do this with balanced work because there are always stressful, highly productive phases in between? How does it look for you? Perhaps that is the most important finding in the whole thing: That there is no such thing as a time management method. Because everyone works differently. And we therefore need flexible scheduling methods.

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