Instant Promise Of Time Management
The quest of personal time management… What really is the secret for success?
Effective time management requires many little parts that together add up to a mature and natural time management skill.
Effective time managers all do certain similar things that allow them to succeed. What are those ‘things’ of effective time mangers?…
After much research and attempting to apply stress management to personal time management, I realised there are a lot of Chinese whispers to sort through.
My blog contains many personal thoughts about personal time management. I can suggest you begin at time management system.
And here’s a few tips off the top of my head.
Know what you want to achieve.
Organize your life around the things you really want.
Use a timer to keep you mindful of the passage of time.
Use use your natural talent for sensible to-do lists to keep you active on your projects.
As a boy I felt the desire for robot like self control.
But by 15 years old I discovered I’m ‘only human’. I realized that to be human is to be flexible.
My Time Management Skill
I have read about the zen notion of a ‘mind like water’. I have to confess I’m not quite there yet.
But this weekend I spent 70% of my waking time being productive. I’ve accomplished a lot in this one weekend. Sometimes I just need more of a break so chill with friends.
Unfortunately, time management skills training is often very bad. I know because I’ve taken a lot of it. They repeat the same old same old. Then I discovered that I need to find my own natural time management skill.
What does it mean to ‘manage time’?
We can’t take a clock and slice it up into well managed bite sized pieces, like we could a cake.
Managing time happens as a natural skill when you understand the rock and water analogy of a new time management paradigm.
Here’s a hint, do not schedule activities to time. And do not prioritize activities by so called ‘importance’.
Your time is the most precious commodity you have got. You can earn more money. You can buy more things. But your life, under today’s level of technology, will end at an average life expectancy of 75.
That’s no way to run a universe. But until life extension technologies are in commercial use, we are going to have to make the most of what little time we have got.
To successfully time manage you must start from that awareness. How much time you have in life.
From their your natural and honest skill of managing time will develop.
Then, to manage time, you can identify the big things you want to spend your time on, where your time goes currently, and put together a schedule of managed time.
See time management training for much more, and to find out exactly how I achieved time management success: time management training.
On my blog you will find a few free time management videos plus access to a time management self-assessment. Take that quiz and you will instantly know your weakest areas of time management skill, plus exactly what to do about it.