My product offers an unique flexibility for my students, and for that I am available from 7 am to 10 pm to teach them, upon set appointments. Because of that flexibility and the peak hours of teaching that are early in the morning, lunch time and evening, my spare time reserved to do everything else is spread ins short blocks during the day. On those free-of-teaching moments I have to do office work, study for my new major, run my errands, everything!
As a business major I have to read a lot! Many books each semester and a handful of long articles every week. We also have to watch many videos weekly. I have the goal to have strait As in this career and to do that I have to read it all with attention, which takes me a lot of time and has diminished my sleep hours. Going to bed at 3 am had become a routine that I desperately wanted to change.
During summer break I took only 1 class and added another time-consuming activity to my agenda: exercising at a nearby gym. I have been consistently working out for over a month now and I already feel the benefits of it in my health, stress management and overall well being. I can't stop it now that I know "I can do it", I don't want to!
Now, as the new semester starts at the university, I was feeling scared about time management and my ability to maintain the quality of my services, my A's, my personal life put together and exercising. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE? I asked myself. Is it EVEN possible?
I felt uncertain and concerned. But, I might have found the solution for my problems!
Not long ago I've learned to love audio books and the benefits of listening and pondering while driving or cooking, but not all books we need to read are available on that format.
A friend who spends a long time commuting to work daily, recently shared with me about TTS (text to speech) engines that can read your texts to you. I was doubting of the efficiency of such apps thinking the voice would sound like a robot, and that it would be an unpleasant experience, but I WAS WRONG!
This week I downloaded @Voice and Ivona, and I listened to all my pdf files instead of reading, and I loved it! I chose Ivona's "Amy" voice, which is in British accent but sounds great and natural (they haven't released an american accent voice for android platforms yet, but it is available on their website, if they had done so, I would have chosen "Joey"'s). The best part is that I could use the app as I did with audio-books and double task all day long.
Sometimes I take my learning activities to the gym. I watch all the videos I was supposed to while doing cardio on a stationary bike and I fell it is very productive. Then I listen through the files I have to read while I lift some weight. I feel it is a relaxing and quite moment, when I can ponder on what I am listening to, and listen to it again if I so desired.
Now I use the time to drive to the gym, work-out and come back in a way that saves me time to study. Now I feel "I can do it" all, and I know I can do it productively. I look forward to learning very much this semester and to be enlightened by the knowledge I will face. It is my desire that I can apply all of that into my life and make the most of it. It will be hard, and I think this tip I've shared today will help me very much!
All of us are given the same 24hs and to be an entrepreneur we can't give up and we have to always invest in ourselves, even when it will make us busy as we can't picture. Double and even multitasking will be required at times and if we do it smartly we will be able to enjoy much more of our lives and achieve much more.
I hope you like the tip and I invite you to try it, and see if it works for you, too!
I would love to hear if you have other TTS engines suggestions or other tips on how to save time.
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