16 August 2009

Time management?

Not sure if we can manage time as such; we each have 168 hours in a week - no more and no less and it ticks on by at a constant rate.

I found it was more helpful for me to believe that I need to manage myself within the time I have, rather than the time itself. As I say that, I appreciate that this it what most people mean when we talk of managing time, of course. However, I think it is more useful to be more precise.

I have found that the prerequisite for determining what we do in the time we have is to be crystal clear on all our goals and have them written down for every category of our lives. We can then easily see whether or not all the stuff and information that crosses our paths is relevant or not.

Then we need to do less. We also need to learn less and study more. Go narrower and deeper rather than broad and shallow. Internalise what we learn and pursue Mastery rather than dabble.