2.10.4       Personal work organization

    Frequently we ourselves are the biggest "time killers": we use the internet, have coffee, read a newspaper, and engage in trifles and waste time solving unimportant things. Follow the following advice to better organize yourself:

• Clean desk policy. Where the layer of papers on a desk approaches 20cm  a person is 10-25% less effective than those with an empty desk. Why? If there are many things on the desk, they distract attention..... A solution is horizontal boxes for storing and organizing your documents.
• Using a time plan. Nearly everyone has a diary to note down meetings; however, a habit to plan the following day and note down the list of things to do tomorrow may increase your efficiency by even 40%.
• Orient the productive time towards result. If people know that they will feel drowsy and uninventive after lunch, it would be good to plan creative thinking in the morning (or other suitable time) and do other jobs in the afternoon.
• Work and break. According to research a student who studies for 8 consecutive hours the night before an exam remembers 50% less than a student who also studies for 8 hours the night before an exam but follows the principle "50 minutes studying and 10 minutes resting". The same principle applies to office work effectiveness. Working for 3 hours without stopping is notably less efficient than working for the same time with a couple of breaks.