To get motivated satisfied and successfully zu studieren and to work, it is becoming more and more important to have self-management know-how and to use it strategically in today's time of constant multitasking.

Tools Tool Box Self-Management

Basic tool of the self-management

These soft skills you can, if they are not or only slightly discussed in your studies, independently acquire.

You are then sufficiently and well armed to achieve your own goals, Career- and to consistently pursue and further develop life dreams even with an ever-increasing workload.

The basic tool box of the self-management include:

Commit yourself - 5 steps

When, where and for how long to plan you what to do to your Projects to finally tackle it concretely? Please be careful with yourself when doing this. Don't go straight from zero to one hundred now. Small, but consistently and continuously executed baby steps lead you not only easier, but usually also much faster overall Objective.

Step 1: Make a fixed appointment

Commit yourself to firmly defined appointments of exactly 20 minutes each. Yes, you read that right: 20 minutes is enough for a start. Your job isn't even to do a particularly good job. This may surprise you, but this is one of the secrets of success in the “Starting Guide for Uncomfortable Tasks”. Your job now is just to work 20 minutes at a time (preferably set a timer, it's also available as software for your desktop) consistently up to the last minute.

Promise yourself beforehand not to complain during this time along the lines of “What the hell is that, I just don't have any Lust in addition!". Make a promise to yourself, too, for these 20 minutes Criticism and leave evaluation outside, according to the motto “I'm just too stupid for that!”.

Step 2: Stubbornly keep the appointment

They just stubbornly keep these appointments to themselves, preferably daily or 4-5 times a week for a start of at least two weeks. No matter what happens, make sure not to pause more than a maximum of 72 hours in between, before continuing again.

That sounds banal do you find ?! Good! Because you know this is to be done. And the effect is phenomenal, you'll soon notice.

Step 3: Make your intention public

It is in our genes and comes from the time when we were still primeval people: Belonging to the tribe and the recognition in the community are essential to us People. Public failure is more frightening to us than physical pain.

Step 4: tackle basic fears

That's one of the reasons why speaking in front of large groups is so fun for most people Anxiety is inspiring. But it is precisely this basic instinct, the primal fear, that you can now use in a targeted manner to finally leave all inner inertia and insecurity behind.

Look for a person of your choice. Tell her about your plan and ask her to support her. Tell her which action plan you have promised yourself for the coming weeks.

Step 5: Report regularly

Promise to update her regularly on how things are going. Also ask this person to follow up with you as soon as you stop to report to her.

In scientific studies about which Strategies are best suited to set a personal goal reliably, fast and for sure to achieve, this trick was proven to be the most effective.

Conclusion: Now it's your turn!

So what do you have to do? Go for it, look and feel more closely, play with the factors of your circumstances. And then marvel at what develops from it over time, all by itself. I wish you much success!