Time Management

Suggested Video.
How To Multiply Your Time.

​This TED video points to -
  • Logic vs emotion.
  • Time management vs efficiency.
  • The notion of ‘multipliers’ and 'automation' and ‘significance’ and saying ‘NO’.
  • The power of delegation.
  • Eliminate - Automate - Delegate - Do it or Procrastinate on purpose: put it off until ‘it’ can be eliminated, delegated or becomes urgent and needs to be done now.
Wellness.
  • Avoid belligerent people:  It is amazing how much time can be lost talking to people that will never allow for anyone else's point of view.
  • Embrace change especially that which comes from ageing:  Everything changes and so must you.  Make your plans around what you are capable of now,  not what was (the past) or where you hope to be (the future).
  • Use your years of experience wisely:  "You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over." Richard Branson.  It's OK to make mistakes but it is better to learn from them.  If your experience is telling you one thing don't 'hope-for-the-best'.  At the very least be cautious when overriding your 'gut'.
  • Be happy:  Don't be too strict on yourself.  Author Marthe Troly-Curtin's quoted opinion is that, time we spend enjoying ourselves is never wasted. 

What's Next?

  1. 'Plan your work, work your plan'.
  2. Foster good habits - "...not one swallow or a fine day that makes a spring."  Aristotle.
  3. Don't rely on memory.  Write things down.
  4. Focus on the important things.
  5. Practice saying no.
  6. Learn the difference between being busy and being productive.
  7. Learn to prioritise.  Remember 80% of results usually come from only 20% of what we do.
  8. Learn to delegate.
  9. Avoid 'multi-tasking' embrace 'Mono-tasking".
  10. Learn to differentiate between the useful and the distracting (you don't need to make yourself available 24/7).
  11. Aways keep your promises. 

Inspiration:  It is said that Fidel Castro calculated that not shaving saved him 10 working days every year.
One of the great basketball coaches, John Wooden, talked about drudgery being the result of joyless work.
Finally: The whole notion of time comes from the emergence of man-made sections of our existence - moments in time.  It is our duty to make the most of those moments.
Note (June 2017):  I was asked by one of my group if point #1 (in the 10 tips that work video) literally meant every thought and conversation.  Here was my reply:

"Hi - no it’s just a diary noting your activities e.g. 9am to 10am: Met X - Talked about Y - Resulted in Z <OR > Had a cup of coffee - Thought about my holidays - Realised I couldn’t afford them - Fell asleep in the chair, etc.etc.  It’s so you can work out how much time you spend being productive." 

One of the things I struggled with, when I moved from teaching to financial services, was accepting that a lot of what I was doing was not productive. Keeping a diary is a simple way to see how much time we waste.

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