Time Management

Time Management

Can we really manage time?  Can we stop it, start it, change it or modify it in any way?  The answer is NO.  Time moves at its own pace as it has always done.  I believe the pace of time can change, be modified, started, stopped, etc., but not by any humans with current technology today.  So, if we don't manage time, what do we manage?  ** Jeffrey Gitomer's "Sales Caffeine",(subscribe) an online newsletter contains a guest column, "A Shot in the Butt".  The following quote, which nails the subject, is from that column. **

Jim Meisenheimer - Time Management - The Ultimate Oxymoron

Get a grip.?  Is it possible to manage time?  Can you make the clock run faster?  Can you make it run slower?  You have no control over time.  Each of us begins the day with 1440 minutes and 86,400 seconds.  It's your personal inventory.  You use the time or you lose the time.

There are simply no alternatives.  Each week has 168 hours, no more and no less.  While managing time is out, managing yourself is in.  Remember, as Henry Ford once said, "Don't complain, don't explain."

 

Jim Meisenheimer's reference to Henry Ford's statement points to things we often do to waste time.  Most of the time they are not necessary, but people do it and others listen intently because it fills in (wastes) the time.  The objective is to use time to get things done and not to lose time on unimportant things.

We manage ourselves and what we do within the framework of time.  Any of the great authors that have published books, articles, tapes, cds, dvds, etc. refer to what you are to do to manage yourself, they do not tell you or show you how to manage time.  They know time is as constant (within our reality on earth) and that we have to control what we do on a minute-to-minute, hour-to-hour, day-to-day, etc. basis.

Take a few minutes and focus on the moving time graph.  The blue area around the NOW is about the limit of your time consciousness.  A few seconds and then they're in the PAST and the ones to come are in the FUTURE; the NOW is quite focused.  People who don't plan for themselves have others planning for them or they do nothing (in most cases a terrible waste).

Meditation, sleeping, quiet contemplation, etc. are good for you and although they appear as doing nothing they are really planned activities that are beneficial.  The ones that hurt are watching television, lying in bed semi-conscious, sitting around bored, just hanging out, etc.  This kind of inactivity hurts you physically, mentally, spiritually and is a complete waste of precious time.  Time that is lost forever.

 

 

This is more great stuff from Jim Meisenheimer's column.

I've condensed it to one line bullets.

    Here are ten techniques for achieving more in less time:
  1. Get up 30 minutes earlier every day. Do the math to see the extra time it gives you in one year.
  2. Take a course in self-management or priority management.
  3. Keep a time log for a week. Record activities and time. Time busters will become apparent.
  4. Throughout the day quietly ask yourself, "Am I making the very best use of my time right now?"
  5. Never do one task if there is a more important one to be done. Never! Look up the word "priority".
  6. Build flex time into daily schedule - allow for the unexpected. To do this is wise, not to is foolhardy.
  7. Buy a timer. Time phone calls, meetings, and projects. Your time is precious. Don't let others steal it.
  8. Use 1 hour weekly getting rid of personal and professional stuff you can live without.
  9. Write your own epitaph. Really do it and ask yourself, "Is this the life I'm leading?" It's never too late.
  10. Learn to say NO! Try saying it firmly and softly at least once a day to any unreasonable requests.

There is a reason why you need more time.  It's because you're attempting too much.  Plan your life and plan your days.  If you want more balance in your life . . . schedule it.  Here's a big tip if you want to take control of your time: keep a log of everything you do for a week.  Just use a yellow legal pad and pencil.  This isn't high tech stuff.  At the end of the week review your log.  The changes you need to make will leap off the pages.  It's truly a no-brainer.


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