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One of the most popular techniques today in organizing and managing work is time boxing. This has become very popular that it is now being widely used in almost all types of work environment, even for students and professionals. This is especially useful for project management because it allows you to set both short-term and long-term goals, as well as make big projects less intimidating by breaking it down to smaller tasks.

With time boxing, you can allocate fixed deadlines for you tasks. This technique is time-bound, so you can designate a specific amount of time to be spent on each task depending on your predicted deadline. For example, if your project for the day is to come up with research proposal for your pre-finals in school, you can divide the task into smaller ones and set time boxes for each. You can allocate an hour for research and resource seeking, a full two and a half hours for writing the proposal itself, another hour for editing and revising, and then maybe take a 15-minute break, and then review the proposal for an hour. You can then allocate an extra 30 minutes for further revisions. You will find that the time you spent on the project is only four hours, giving you enough time to do other tasks for the rest of the day.

Another great thing for using this technique when doing any type of project is it allows for immediate feedback. When you’ve set up and delegated your initial time for each task in your project, you will find that you are able to adjust it as you go along and get an instantaneous picture of the task on hand, whether or not the amount of time currently allocated for it is enough or more time is needed for the task, and you can easily adjust it accordingly.

Notice how we tend to prefer smaller tasks than bigger ones? Same goes for projects, the huge ones always seem to overwhelm us while smaller ones are much more -bearable-. Time boxing solves this problem. This technique will help you break down the project into smaller tasks, giving you a visual of the small tasks instead of one big task. You will find that you can have more progress slowly working on the smaller tasks than when you see the big project as a whole. A huge house cleaning project, for example, can get you overwhelmed when you think about all the rooms and areas you will need to clean. So when you apply the technique, you can divide the project into rooms, set aside certain amounts of time for each room instead, and work on that. As you slowly work your way to the other rooms in your task list, you will find that you’ve achieved more this way.

Using boxing combinations allows you to throw multiple punches at your opponent without breaking stride. Your opponent may be able to avoid individual punches, but he will find it harder to get away from several. If you keep him busy defending your punches, he will have less time to respond with his own. Of course, if you fail to properly recover after delivering a series of blows, his return strikes will catch you with your guard down. Any advantage that you gained by using a combination may then be lost. So dont forget to put up your own guard once youve completed a combination.

Combinations may be only a couple of punches put together. They may also be five or six punches in a row. The important thing for a combination is that it has to flow. Each punch must transition smoothly to the next. Otherwise, combinations are useless. Any pause or awkward delivery gives your opponent an opportunity to recover and strike back. Of course, its not necessary to hit your opponent with every punch in a combination. Some of the punches are used to adjust your opponents defense and create an opening for the next punch. You may be trying to hit your opponents face so that he will put his hands up, leaving his torso wide open for the more powerful blow that you plan to land there. Or you may aim low to bring his hands down and follow with a strike at his head.

If youre just learning how to throw punches correctly, its best not to try creating combinations. Its more important for you to be able to execute each punch effectively in the beginning. You also have to learn the numbers that are associated with individual punches. A trainer may give you direction for a combination using only numbers. If you dont know them, your sparring partner can take the opportunity to hit while youre confused. Once you are comfortable with the punches and their numbers, begin adding combinations to your training. Dont exceed more than three new combinations a week. You will have to perform drills with each combination to keep up your skill level. Once you are ready to move onto the next set of combinations, you still have to practice the ones that youve already learned. They will help you the most when you are able to deliver them flawlessly without stopping to think. Boxing combinations are a powerful technique to have in your skill collection.

If you are involved in freelance work, you know that one of the essential tools you must have is a time management tool. And time boxing is just the thing. Whether you’ve been doing freelance jobs for a long time or you are thinking about joining the freelance bandwagon, this technique is the best one you can use to help you organize your daily, weekly, and monthly tasks.

What makes this technique very popular is the ease in which one can use it. There’s no need for lengthy trainings and tutorials; you only need a few minutes to learn the concept and you’ll be able to master it immediately. The idea is putting your tasks in a -box-, and within that box is your time-frame. All you need to do is make a list of all the things you do as a freelancer, and put each task in a box. Your box will represent the time-frame within which you intend to accomplish your task. You just have to think about the tasks and make a rough estimate on how much time you will need to spend on it to finish it. And that’s it. That’s time boxing. It’s really that simple.

After you have learned the basics of the technique, you can then organize your tasks. You can choose to do the important tasks first, the other least important tasks afterwards. Or you can choose to do the tasks that you have allocated the biggest amount of time first and do the rest in decreasing order. Whatever you choose to do, the point is that you are able to focus at one task at a time, which makes it easy for you to progress on your tasks. You get to focus on one task alone per box, so you are able to concentrate more and not get sidetracked by other tasks.

And when you are tackling big projects on your freelance work, time boxing can really help you out, too. This technique can help you break down your big project into smaller and more focused tasks. Instead of getting overwhelmed by the big task and deadlines looming ahead of you, you can concentrate on the smaller tasks required to finish the project. When you’ve broken it down to the core tasks, you will be able to concentrate more and end up doing a lot of progress towards completing the project. This also makes it easier to check your progress on the project, how much you have already accomplished and how much more you need to work on.