5 habits that will help to be effective during quarantine and beyond

From the point of view of neurophysiology, habits are formed in the brain when neurons in certain areas (basal ganglia, in particular) are strongly combined. Connections of neurons are called synapses, and these are the places where one neuron communicates with another, releasing certain molecules (neurotransmitters). Habits are largely formed because the brain tells itself "well done, I'm fine" when we do something. That's why we have so many bad (but pleasant) habits. And it's so hard to get rid of them.

With a certain level of awareness and stubbornness, you can acquire useful habits, such as doing exercises every hour. By starting to do this regularly and under certain conditions, we can see that the habit is, in fact, quite pleasant, and does us good, so the brain will fix it itself.

1. Keep documents in order and draw them up in a timely manner

Are you familiar with the situation when you need to send to a certain government agency or institution, the seller of the store (to return the goods), other companies, institutions and organizations a copy of your passport, certificate of residence, documents proving ownership or lease (to connect electricity) , water or gas), any statement or complaint (in ZhEK, shop, etc.)? For example, you have submitted an application electronically, but the answer is not received and the recipient of your application asks: "Tell me, what application and when did you submit?". And here you start looking for photos of documents on the phone, scans in PDF in downloads, check the "Sent" folder in your e-mail, and so on. To avoid such "pleasant" searches, you need to train yourself to maintain order in electronic documents, ie to allocate space for their safe, reliable and convenient storage. Such a program, for example, is InstaDoc, where you can download your documents for storage and exchange. In the program it is possible

• keep track of when and to whom you sent documents;
• save documents in various formats - word, pdf, excel, tosho images
• upload photo documents to your personal account from your phone's browser
• sign CEP documents
• download and save documents signed by CEP in other programs;
• store documents of contractors in their profile in the register of contractors.

Proper storage of documents is extremely important for both businesses and ordinary citizens.

2. Sign documents with CEP

Sending an application by mail or courier delivery is long (from 2-3 days) and expensive (from 40 UAH), you can't even argue with that. Instead, the signing of documents by KEP allows you to quickly send the desired document to the appropriate institution, the evidence of submission of this document is automatically saved and, accordingly, the countdown to the response period begins earlier. You do not need to throw out the courier, go to the branch of Ukrposhta, Nova Poshta or other delivery services (also note the restriction of visits in quarantine), the check after sending which is important not to lose and not throw away along with other receipts you receive daily in stores.

Thus, signing CEP documents is not just fast and reliable, not a tribute to fashion and modernity, but an urgent need.

3. Use electronic government services

In this article, we have compiled a list of sites that provide various types of administrative and other online documentary services. It is better to take a walk in the park than to run to take a turn to submit and receive documents (and if you need to do it in another city, the "day for documents" is guaranteed.

4. Test new programs that do not need to be removed, but useful to leave and customize them to your personal needs

Technology improves lives. We are flying into the future faster than we can imagine, but there are still so many things that humanity has not completed for millennia. In order for you to have time to complete your old tasks, make progress in current affairs and start new ones, you need to free up a little time for this, but how? New technologies are available to everyone for this! Useful applications and programs:

Enpass - secure password storage
Duolingo - learning foreign languages in the form of games
Youtube - there is everything, including endless educational resources, but we choose the best. For example, Little fox, chinese buddy - channels for children to learn Chinese (!), But they also learn it at Harvard! So if you go somewhere, it is for communication with people and recreation, and routine learning can be translated into a game!
Canva - photo editing
Videoshaw, Movavi - video editing
InstaDoc - work with documents
numerous programs for health tracking, budgeting, etc.
The only difficulty with all programs is the first 5 minutes, when your brain explores how to use them, and then everything becomes a habit. The main thing is to test what is right for you and what you need it for. No application required - uninstall, so after a while you will have your own selection of sites, applications and programs to quickly solve almost any problem.

5. Make detailed plans and implement them (if it does not work, start over)

It's so obvious, but sometimes we forget about it. Yes, it is plans, tasks and tasks that bring us closer to the desired state, goal. A big problem cannot be solved with one solution, many small solutions will be needed. Chaotic keeping of notes in the smartphone will gradually turn into lists of cases with specific realistic deadlines. Notes can be dictated, and the Google keyboard will immediately turn them into text and correct mistakes. Set goals and achieve them!