Often people spend precious time doing useless things. Chronophages are actions, events or people that distract a person from solving important life tasks. As an example, standing in traffic jams, communicating on social networks. Given that human life is short, it is extremely ridiculous to spend precious time on secondary, not representing any good things.
Chronophages are the type of people who have nothing to do at the moment. To overcome boredom and kill time, they take it from others, thus deciding to arrange their leisure.
Classification
Chronophages can be classified according to certain characteristics. They are controlled and uncontrollable, animated and inanimate. Chronophagous people are chatty interlocutors, friends who are ready to make up a company for shopping trips, co-workers who prefer to while away working days at a tea party.
In addition to animated time-eaters, there are other, more dangerous and sometimes hidden obstacles - virtual chronophages. They can be all kinds of television programs, transfers, viewing sites on the Internet.
Controlled Time Absorbers
Some chronophagous people are able to control. So, with a strong-willed effort, you can reduce the time devoted to watching TV shows or limit surfing on the Internet. A necessary condition for this is the development of such a quality as self-discipline. It is necessary to purposefully develop the strength of will in oneself. Having made a decision and setting a time limit for surfing the Internet, you should adhere to it no matter how difficult it is at first. Then, such behavior will inevitably become a habit and become the norm of everyday life. How to expose the chronophage and make its existence more efficient will be described below.
It is especially difficult for a modern person to refuse to spend leisure time through communication on social networks. They are also full of all kinds of multimedia content, which is incredibly difficult to break away from watching. Virtual communication on social networks, on dating sites delays and takes a huge amount of time, which can be considered permanently deleted from life. Often married male chronophages can spend their whole days romantically chatting on various sites of the opposite sex. But in the end, in the evening they return to their wives.
Computer games
Extremely attractive, but at the same time devouring all their free time, are computer games. Millions of people around the world daily immerse themselves in an exciting virtual world. Endless, aimless pastime, sitting at the computer, interferes with the development of a person, distracting him from important matters (study, work, communication with loved ones).
Defeating addiction to computer games is also very difficult. After all, they are rich in special effects and have fascinating stories. The best way to deal with such a chronophage can be the emergence of a new hobby that allows you to get the thrill in real life.
TV
A very popular and at the same time non-profitable means of spending leisure time is watching all kinds of talk shows, entertainment programs and endless TV shows. Instead, you should strive to spend your leisure time for the benefit of the body and mind. The less time is spent watching TV, the more precious minutes will be left for other things. An exception may be watching a long-awaited and interesting film. But this must be done no more than once a week. You can watch television programs, doing any other useful activities (for example, sewing, embroidery, ironing).
How not to hang on social networks
You can successfully combat addiction to social networks by applying a number of rules. You need to go into them only when there is free time or there is a need to communicate with someone from friends and colleagues, or to search for important information. To ensure that viewing pages on social networks does not take up valuable time, it will not be superfluous to set a limit on reading news and correspondence and strictly adhere to it.
Also, in the absence of active communication in social networks, it is best to immediately close the corresponding tab in the browser. As a measure to combat time costs, we can offer to conduct a kind of audit of all groups and communities in the social networks that a person is in, and get out of those that do not contain the necessary information.
Controlled chronophages are a means of communication. With the advent of mobile, relatively cheap communications, the problem of spending time on telephone calls has sharply worsened.
A person is able to fight most chronophages. So, you need to develop the habit of talking on the phone exclusively on business. Being on the road, instead of aimlessly viewing landscapes outside the window of a vehicle, you need to plan the next day or read useful literature.
Forced loss of time
Some types of chronophages are independent of human will. These include loss of time arising due to various circumstances, regardless of the desire of people. As an example, traffic jams, long queuing, as well as waiting caused by the delay of the person with whom the appointment is made, can be given.
Chronophages in the home
An incredible amount of time is spent on a variety of matters related to everyday life. This is cooking, followed by washing dishes, cleaning, finding the necessary things. If you do not wash the dishes on time, its amount quickly increases. For example, if you suddenly need a clean cup, and a pile of dirty dishes has accumulated in the sink, you don’t need to reach out and take a clean cup, but you should wash the dirty one and drink tea from it. After drinking tea, immediately wash it and place it in a clean bowl. If every member of the family does this, you can get all the clean cups, and if everyone takes a cup from the “clean cupboard”, then the unwashed mountain will simply double and become inevitably a chronophage.
Dirt and dust in the room also gradually accumulate. And the search for things in disorder throughout the apartment inevitably leads to delays. To avoid the loss of time as a result of the influence of these factors, it is necessary to make it a rule not to increase the amount of dirty dishes, but to wash it immediately after eating. In order to minimize the time spent searching for the right things, you need to put those that are used regularly, put them in a designated place. In addition, you can start a box with a set of minimally necessary things. Households should not be allowed to throw things in an already cleaned room. Otherwise, there is a high probability of a large number of dirty and wrinkled clothes with a rather gloomy prospect of a new cleaning and washing. Things must be stored in a strictly designated place.
You do not need to create several different storages for cosmetics, accessories, jewelry and other household items. In order not to search for something throughout the apartment, it is enough to put any makeup in one drawer, all jewelry - in one box or on one shelf (if they are in separate boxes).
Cooking should be considered in the evening. However, one should not be too zealous in saving time by eating instant foods or eating raw, hastily cooked food. Poor-quality food can cause diseases that can for a long time bring a person out of a state of active life.
Fighting uncontrolled chronophages is difficult, but still necessary. For this, viewing useful information as well as reading books is best suited.
Smart communication
In the fight against chronophages, the main efforts should be directed at optimizing the sphere of communication. It should not be overly zealous. It must be remembered that man is not a machine. People cannot exist without communication. Sometimes you can afford the luxury of chatting with a pleasant conversationalist on various abstract topics.
However, it is necessary to minimize communication in those cases when you have to entertain an openly bored interlocutor or listen to a person who is endlessly tiring talking about his life. It is necessary not to give strangers the opportunity to take precious time.
How to make friends with chronophages
If time loss cannot be completely ruled out, then chronophages should simply be included in the daily routine as an inevitable occurrence. For example, you can take into account the loss of time in advance due to being in a traffic jam on the way to work and leaving home early. When planning possible losses of time, gradually a person optimizes the negative impact of such a phenomenon in everyday life. After all, chronophages are dangerous enemies of human life.