Time Waits for No One - How to Manage Your Time
By Cleo WhittinghamSubmitted On September 21, 2015
Who is to blame?
We allow or minds to be bombarded with information every single second of the day. Media and the smartphone are the favourite culprits but the truth and reality behind that is, we have to switch the TV on, we have to open up the browser, we have to sign up to social media platforms. It's very interesting to hear many shout about the ultimate devil, Facebook, or for those who believe Twitter is for the more sophisticated among us but the cold hard facts are we love social media, we get all caught up in their webs (pun intended) and we thrive on it.
Take Responsibility - Recognise your weakness muscles & give them a work out.
Social media and the internet, family, work, squeezed in hobbies a bit of socialising wedged in at the weekend and we fall into bed at the end of a hectic day and our last thoughts drift to what we really want to be spending our time doing. Writing that book, starting a business, spending more time with the family, whatever it may be and we lay there wishing there were more hours in the day.
In reality even if four hours were added to each day we would still manage to find a way to fill that extra time with more of the distractions we create for ourselves. Another cold hard truth, if you decide there aren't enough hours in the day, then there aren't. Time management starts with a mindset. A mindset that plans the day ahead, the night before, a mindset that ensures that the body gets a least 7 hours sleep, fully aware that the body needs sleep in order to perform to its full potential, a mindset that wakes up in the morning full of determination to follow that plan and get things done.
All distractions aside, what are the real reasons some people are able to manage their seemingly unmanageable time schedule and the majority allow time to pass without ever achieving dreams and aspirations or worse, never getting things done?
There is no magic secret formula to achieving your goals except for getting on and doing it. What you really need to do is search for the reason why there are certain tasks you say you want to achieve or get done, yet you just seem to allow them to be pushed to the back of your list. You'll find it has nothing to do with time.
It has nothing to do with being smarter, faster, more intelligent, looks, or even age, so we can forget those excuses. Are we afraid to fail, worried about what others think, not enough money there are so many reasons that we use to push our goals aside.
Angela Lee Duckworth's, revealing TedTalks Education talk focuses on Grit and what separates those who do from those who think and talk about doing which ultimately leads to achievements and success or not.
Grit encompasses a need to do, courage, a total desire to achieve something and not stopping until reaching that goal. Why do some people have Grit and others don't, the answer has not yet been found, though I believe a build up of the excuses we sometimes we feed ourselves coupled with this idea that there's not enough time keeps from us getting to where we want to be.
It all truly comes down to choice and effective prioritisation. For example you want to write a book. You have a full-time job, a spouse, two kids and a dog and lets throw in an elderly family member who you have to check up on every couple of days. Where do you get time to write?
First of all, you're not going to write your novel in a weekend. You have to view the goal as a staircase and each step is say 2000 words. Work out how long it takes you to write two thousand words. If it takes you two hours then you plan to write one thousand words per day, you'll have your novel within three months. That seems like a much more achievable goal. Maybe you have to sacrifice your favourite TV show, or have a date night fortnightly rather than weekly. Perhaps you ask your partner to manage bath times for three months, whatever your goal, whatever you think you don't have enough time for, that's a choice, so chose to do something different. You will surprise yourself.
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By Cleo WhittinghamSubmitted On September 21, 2015
Who is to blame?
We allow or minds to be bombarded with information every single second of the day. Media and the smartphone are the favourite culprits but the truth and reality behind that is, we have to switch the TV on, we have to open up the browser, we have to sign up to social media platforms. It's very interesting to hear many shout about the ultimate devil, Facebook, or for those who believe Twitter is for the more sophisticated among us but the cold hard facts are we love social media, we get all caught up in their webs (pun intended) and we thrive on it.
Take Responsibility - Recognise your weakness muscles & give them a work out.
Social media and the internet, family, work, squeezed in hobbies a bit of socialising wedged in at the weekend and we fall into bed at the end of a hectic day and our last thoughts drift to what we really want to be spending our time doing. Writing that book, starting a business, spending more time with the family, whatever it may be and we lay there wishing there were more hours in the day.
In reality even if four hours were added to each day we would still manage to find a way to fill that extra time with more of the distractions we create for ourselves. Another cold hard truth, if you decide there aren't enough hours in the day, then there aren't. Time management starts with a mindset. A mindset that plans the day ahead, the night before, a mindset that ensures that the body gets a least 7 hours sleep, fully aware that the body needs sleep in order to perform to its full potential, a mindset that wakes up in the morning full of determination to follow that plan and get things done.
All distractions aside, what are the real reasons some people are able to manage their seemingly unmanageable time schedule and the majority allow time to pass without ever achieving dreams and aspirations or worse, never getting things done?
There is no magic secret formula to achieving your goals except for getting on and doing it. What you really need to do is search for the reason why there are certain tasks you say you want to achieve or get done, yet you just seem to allow them to be pushed to the back of your list. You'll find it has nothing to do with time.
It has nothing to do with being smarter, faster, more intelligent, looks, or even age, so we can forget those excuses. Are we afraid to fail, worried about what others think, not enough money there are so many reasons that we use to push our goals aside.
Angela Lee Duckworth's, revealing TedTalks Education talk focuses on Grit and what separates those who do from those who think and talk about doing which ultimately leads to achievements and success or not.
Grit encompasses a need to do, courage, a total desire to achieve something and not stopping until reaching that goal. Why do some people have Grit and others don't, the answer has not yet been found, though I believe a build up of the excuses we sometimes we feed ourselves coupled with this idea that there's not enough time keeps from us getting to where we want to be.
It all truly comes down to choice and effective prioritisation. For example you want to write a book. You have a full-time job, a spouse, two kids and a dog and lets throw in an elderly family member who you have to check up on every couple of days. Where do you get time to write?
First of all, you're not going to write your novel in a weekend. You have to view the goal as a staircase and each step is say 2000 words. Work out how long it takes you to write two thousand words. If it takes you two hours then you plan to write one thousand words per day, you'll have your novel within three months. That seems like a much more achievable goal. Maybe you have to sacrifice your favourite TV show, or have a date night fortnightly rather than weekly. Perhaps you ask your partner to manage bath times for three months, whatever your goal, whatever you think you don't have enough time for, that's a choice, so chose to do something different. You will surprise yourself.
http://www.laptop-lifestyle.club
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