The Only 3 Things You'll Ever Need To Know About Time Management
The Only 3 Things You'll Ever Need To Know About Time Management
Ironically, most of the time management books, blogs, courses are a waste of time. Most of us know what we need to do and when it needs to be done. No onereallyneeds a course in planning, when all you need is a pen and paper. The more complicated time management is made out to be, the more of a waste of time it is. If there's anyone with a PHd in Time Management, they've defeated the point. So here's the list, quick and dirty, as simple as it gets:
1. Do it now
"There are stumbling blocks that lead to procrastination. But for all the things you CAN do now, do them!"
Here are some things that lead to procrastination:
Feeling obligated to someone else: giving away your power.
Feeling you have to, overwhelmed, guilty, fearful
Stressed about the outcome instead of enjoying the process.
Ways to fix this:
Break commitments to people that make you give up your power or kill your enjoyment.
Get yourself going, get really involved in planning, researching and executing that you forget about all the negative stuff.
Enjoy the flow by using creativity instead of looking for a quick way to accomplish the outcome.
If there's nothing else you learn in time management, this is the only one that will really matter.A task tends to take up more of your resources the longer it sits.Do it now and it will seem like it never existed, it will be gone from your mind within minutes. Keep putting it off and thinking about it and it will eat away at you night and day.
The Insurance Mogul, W.C. Stone built a billion dollarenterpriseon this. He started selling insurance policies at 16 in the 1910s. He sold 100s of policies a day, built a number of companies, and published a few books before his death at the age of 100, in year 2000. Read up about W.C. Stone's and you'll recognize his extreme drive and motivation.
Moving mountains is in execution.
2. Learn to write lists, keep a calender of plans and dates
"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail"
Any 5 year old can write a list. It's easy to forget what you're doing, especially during busy days. Get one of those planners and write down things that need to get done the next day or the next few hours. Write them down as they come to you.Be specific in what needs to be done.Strike them off as you finish them. Make it into a game, see how many items you can check off before breakfast, or dinner, or the end of the day.
3. Work longer hours,Work until it's done, Keep the momentum going--stay on the grind
"Approach everything like you're going to work hard at it."
Master every Time Management Principle in every book and resource to a T, and you'll still lose to the man who works harder.
If you're not extremely talented, rich or highly skilled,you'll have to work harder than most everyone else is willing to work. In fact, work harder than the talented and you'll whip their asses. This means working before people get up in the morning and after they've gone to bed at night. And then putting in more during the day than most people will ever care to put in. Doing this will keep your momentum up.
Work on the weekends whenever you get the chance. Weekends are where your momentum dies. Weekends tend to be boring and unproductive if you have nothing to do and expensive if you party. There's nothing wrong with partying, just don't party when you should be working. And don't think, just because it's the weekend you should be partying. If you're either broke, or going after something great, you should be working!
When putting in the long hours, stick with what you're doing until it's done. You'll get tons more done this way. If you have ADD and tend to jump from one task to another every 5-minutes, force yourself to stick to one task until it's done. The time and energy spent between tasks waste and you end up with less at the end of the day.
Conclusion: It's all about production, so kick your own ass!
Production leads to distribution and distribution leads to something else being distributed into your bank account, cash! The entrepreneur needs to be a dreamer as well as a executer, but few dreamers ever get anything done. Visionaries spend too much time fantasizing about the future, at the expense of the present.The visionary spends too much time deciding on the future, and not enough time getting there.Don't worry about a 4-hour work week, don't do the 5 days a week thing, don't stop at 48 hours, don't whine you don't get enough rest,just work all the time. The more you produce the more money you make. Simple. Don't use the wordeasy, because nothing worth doing is ever easy. And if you haven't accomplished it yet, don't say it's easy. Because saying it's easy is just another way of saying, "if it's not easy it's impossible."So don't approach anything as if it's easy, anywhere worth going takes a struggle.
This is my time management philosophy. It doesn't need to be any more complicated than this. You learn a lesson or two, then keeping up the stamina, motivation and effort is up to you. And keep the wise words of AC/DC in mind,"It's a long way to the top, if you want to rock and roll!"
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