How do you manage your time?

Okay, well today’s post is about Time Man­age­ment as I am sure you know and have prob­a­bly heard about already. I am sure that you know in order to really be suc­cess­ful in any endeav­our you need to know how to man­age your time effectively.

I heard John Maxwell say that he went to a Time Man­age­ment con­fer­ence once and the speaker said that Time is like iden­ti­cal suit­cases, how­ever some peo­ple can pack more items into the cases than oth­ers because they know what to pack!

That is so true, so what we are talk­ing about is not just time man­age­ment, but life man­age­ment! We need to know how to man­age our lives or else our times will be wasted doing activ­i­ties that do not yield the high­est return for our lives.I think one of the best ways to mas­ter time is to ask our­selves how do we W.I.N. Win stands for What’s Impor­tant Now!!

Now think about that for a sec­ond. What’s impor­tant in your life right now, not yes­ter­day, not last year, not 10 years in the future….What’s impor­tant Now!!! If right now you are doing a degree that can seri­ously affect your finan­cial life by giv­ing you a pro­mo­tion in your job after fin­ish­ing it, then most likely this is what is impor­tant right now because if you accom­plish this objec­tive your fam­ily will be hap­pier, your stress lev­els will be decreased, your job will ben­e­fit with your new exper­tise etc. What hap­pens is that we have a ten­dency to major on minor things e.g. your car isn’t work­ing so well and the time you spend fix­ing that car, you could have spent it doing your final year project for the degree. Some of you may say but if I do not fix my car I will not be able to get to school or to my job and my answer to that is why not travel for the time being until you fin­ish that project so after that you can spend time fix­ing the car!

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What I am try­ing to say is that only you know what is impor­tant in your life right now and if you don’t take the time to focus on the impor­tant things you will be rob­bing not only your­self but your entire world! Once you know what is impor­tant and some­thing else arises, you need to ask is this more impor­tant than what I am doing now and if it isn’t then you need to see how you can work around it e.g. can you out­source the prob­lem to some­one else, can it wait etc.

By focus­ing on what is impor­tant in your life right now, you free your­self to do those things and elim­i­nate all the time wasters and dis­trac­tions that will come to keep you away from the prize!

So your home­work for today is to write down every­thing that is impor­tant for you to do right now and pri­or­i­tize them in order of importance.

Focus on the top ones then move down the list.

Next you need to take a look at all time wasters that may come your way and think of how you can elim­i­nate them from your life.

Do this for one week and notice the changes in your life and I will like to hear your com­ments on this.

This is just a small tip on time man­age­ment and I do plan to release other plans in future posts. Thanks for read­ing this and have a pro­duc­tive day!

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