Procrastination and lack of planning can easily undermine your success in life. It affects everything you do. Instead of procrastinating, focus on being in the "here and now". To be in the "here and now" means to do what you are doing when you are doing it. It means being where you are when you are there. It is very common for our thoughts to distract us from where we want to be. Sometimes technology is one of our main distractions.
Planning supports being in the here and now. Goals are tools we create to guide our action in the present. Time management techniques have only one purpose. They reveal what is most important for you to focus on right now.
When you say you do not have enough time, you may really be trying to say that you are not spending the time you have in the way you want.
Time is an unusual commodity. It cannot be saved. It is a non renewable resource. Time is perfectly content on remaining hidden until you are almost out of it. And when you are out of time, you are out. If you are out of money there are ways you can earn a little extra money. If you are out of love, there is still hope. But when you are out of time, that is it. Time seems to pass at variable speeds. Sometimes it crawls and other times it flies by like a speeding bullet.
Everything written about time management can be reduced to 3 main ideas.
These main ideas are:
1) Know exactly what you want. State your wants as clear, specific goals. Put them into writing.
2) Know how to get what you want. Take actions to meet your goals. Determine what you will do today to get what you want in the future. Put these actions in writing, too.
3) Go for balance. When our lives lack this quality, we spend most of our time responding to the interruptions, last minute projects, and emergencies.
Life feels like a scramble to survive. We are so busy achieving someone else's goals that we forget about what we want. Sometimes you may feel like everyone else controls your time. Maybe this is not true. So approach time like you are in control.
Planning supports being in the here and now. Goals are tools we create to guide our action in the present. Time management techniques have only one purpose. They reveal what is most important for you to focus on right now.
When you say you do not have enough time, you may really be trying to say that you are not spending the time you have in the way you want.
Time is an unusual commodity. It cannot be saved. It is a non renewable resource. Time is perfectly content on remaining hidden until you are almost out of it. And when you are out of time, you are out. If you are out of money there are ways you can earn a little extra money. If you are out of love, there is still hope. But when you are out of time, that is it. Time seems to pass at variable speeds. Sometimes it crawls and other times it flies by like a speeding bullet.
Everything written about time management can be reduced to 3 main ideas.
These main ideas are:
1) Know exactly what you want. State your wants as clear, specific goals. Put them into writing.
2) Know how to get what you want. Take actions to meet your goals. Determine what you will do today to get what you want in the future. Put these actions in writing, too.
3) Go for balance. When our lives lack this quality, we spend most of our time responding to the interruptions, last minute projects, and emergencies.
Life feels like a scramble to survive. We are so busy achieving someone else's goals that we forget about what we want. Sometimes you may feel like everyone else controls your time. Maybe this is not true. So approach time like you are in control.
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