Different Ways to Approach Time Management (Part 2 of 4)

Resuming the series about how to structure your Time Management Techniques, let's see more about the high level aspects from these techniques with the second way to do it: Divergent Way.

Disclaimer: This way isn't entirely the opposite from the Convergent Way!

Divergent Way

In the Divergent Way of doing activities, you'll try to focus on doing only one thing at once, to archieve multiple goals (either totally or partially on each one of these goals). The name says itself, you try to do one activity that diverges into multiple goals.

There are some interesting aspects about using this time management style:

Pros:

• If you like to focus in only one activity at a time.
• Doing one of these activities can have some synergies with multiple and different goals.
• You just have one start-up time per activity.

Cons:

• You can get easily bored.
• If there are external obstacles in your activity, you may have to wait until they are fixed or resolved to continue working.
• There are situations where doing multiple activities creates an atmosphere of completing things smoothly.

Like the earlier post in the series, try to identify if the Divergent Way is your style, there are one other style I'll write about in the next post with is a hybrid from the Convergent and Divergent Ways.