The Truth About Time Management
The Truth About Time Management
I always chuckle a little to myself when a people ask me how I manage my time. You know, there really is no such thing as time management. We can’t manage time.
Think about it; the term is an oxymoron. Time cannot be managed. It cannot be controlled in any way. Everyone gets the same 24 hours, 1,440 minutes and 86,400 seconds in a day. You can’t save up time from today to be used tomorrow or borrow from next week for today. Time is external to us – we have no control over it. It ticks away, a second at a time, and when it is past, can never be reclaimed.
The key to creating an extra hour a day is changing your mindset to SELF-MANAGEMENT!
I believe self-management is about acknowledging we are responsible for our lives. It is your choices that have created your life. Not your boss or your parents or the government or anything else. Yes, those things have an impact, but how you choose to see the circumstances, how you choose to interpret and respond determine your life.
To create and extra hour a day you need to start by adopting a mindset of self-management where you accept responsibility for your life totally. Then you can start to see new options and opportunities that will create more time.
How we choose to use that time, however, is very much within our control. Time is a precious resou……