Your Most Precious Resource…
Lack of clarity is the number one time waster. Always be asking what am I trying to do, how am I trying to do it. Perhaps the greatest single problem that people have today is time poverty.
Working
people have too much to do and too little time for their personal lives. Most
people feel overwhelmed with responsibilities and activities and the harder
they work the further behind they feel. Instead of clearly deciding what you
want to do, you continually react to what is happening around you. Pretty soon
you lose all sense of control.
Time
Time
is your most precious resource; it is the most valuable thing you have. It is
perishable, it is irreplaceable and it cannot be saved. It can only be
reallocated from activities of lower value to activities of higher value. All
work requires time, the very act of taking a moment to think about your time
before you spend it, will begin to improve your personal time management and
increase your productivity immediately. Many people think that time management
is only a business tool like a calculator or cell phone or that it's something
that you use to increase productivity and eventually be paid more money.
However, time management is not a peripheral activity or skill. It is the core
skill on which everything else in life depends. In your work or business life, there are so many demands on your time from other people that very little of
your time is yours to use as you choose. However, at home, you can exert a
tremendous amount of control over how you use your time and increase
productivity throughout the day in your personal life.
Personal
Time Management
Personal
time management begins with you. It begins with your thinking through what is
really important to you in life. You need to set goals in three major areas of
your life:
·
First
you need family and personal goals these are the reasons; why you get up in the
morning, why you work hard and upgrade your skills, why you worry about money
and sometimes feel frustrated by the demands on your time. What are your family
and personal goals both tangible and intangible? A tangible family goal could
be a bigger house, a better car, a larger television set, a vacation or
anything else that costs money. An intangible goal would be; to build a higher
quality relationship with your spouse and children to spend more time with your
family, going for walks or reading books. Achieving these family and personal
goals is the real essence of time management and its major purpose.
·
The
second area of goals is your business and career goals. These are the goals by
which you achieve your personal goals. How can you achieve the level of income
that will enable you to fulfil your family goals, how can you develop the
skills and abilities to stay ahead of the curve in your career business and
career goals are absolutely essential especially when balanced with family and
personal goals?
·
The
third type of goals are your personal development goals. Your outer life will
be a reflection of your inner life. If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in
your personal and career life you must become a worthwhile person in your own
self-development, you must build yourself. If you want to build your life perhaps
the greatest secret of success is that; you can become anything you really want
to become to achieve any goal that you really want to achieve but in order to
do that you must go to work on yourself and never stop a principle of time
management.
Time
Management says that hard time pushes out soft time, this means that hard time
such as working will push out soft time such as the time you spend with your
family. If you don't get your work done at the office because you don't use
your time well, you almost invariably have to rob that time from your family as
a result because your family is important to you. Find yourself in a values
conflict.
There
are three key questions that you can ask yourself continually to keep your
personal life in balance.
·
The
first question is what is really important to me whenever you find yourself
with too much to do and too little time stop and ask yourself what is it that's
really important to me to do in this situation, then make sure that what you're
doing is the answer to that question.
·
The
second question is what are the highest value activities in my personal life? This
means what are the things that I do that give me the greatest pleasure or
satisfaction of all the things that I could be doing at one time? What are the things
I could do to add the greatest value to my life?
·
And
the final question for you to ask over and over again is what is the most
valuable use of my time right now. Since you can only do one thing at a time
you must constantly organize your life so that you are doing one thing the most
important thing at every moment.
Conclusion
Personal
time management enables you to choose what to do first, what to do second and
what not to do at all. It enables you to organize every aspect of your life so
that you can get the greatest joy, happiness and satisfaction out of everything
you do.
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