Constantly I hear people say, "I don't have the time." Also, I listen to others tell me that I have too much time on my hand. How can that be possible? I thought we all had equal 24 hours in the day. If I have too much time, where is the extra time coming from?
I used to think that I had equal 24 hours in a day with billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bernard Arnault, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Larry Page, Sergery Brin, Mukesh Ambani, Amancio Ortega, Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, Zhong Shanshan, Steve Ballmer, and Ma Huateng. I was only lying to myself when I thought I did.
Why would I say I don't have equal 24 hours? Because these billionaires know the value of time, they bought other people's time and added it to their 24 hours. They bought people's time through employment. So, they have people working for them, achieving in 24 hours what they should have accomplished in a decade without the extra hands on deck. They understand that time is more valuable than money, diamond, gold, bronze, and all the world's wealth.
OK, pardon me for not explaining my perspective of time being more valuable than money. I know you have been chasing money, but as you do, sometimes you look down on time, and that is where you get it wrong. The misconception that wealth is about money is the reason many people are not getting wealthy. Some people will tell you that you can earn money, but you cannot get more time. I believe that is also a misconception because money can buy other people's time.
The issue of time is essential to the meaning of wealth. Lots of people will spend time looking at their bank accounts with great attention to detail, but they don't look at their time the same way, and as such, they end up wasting this precious resource.
You will only be genuinely wealthy when you value your time more than you value your money. Spending money needs time. You only have a certain amount of time to spend all the money you have in the world. How often have you heard the story of people saying, "It went by so fast" or "If only I'd had more time" as they were living out their final days? People close to a death wish for more time, not money.
Time management is the strategy of planning out your available time and controlling your time on specific tasks to work more efficiently. Effective time management comes easier to some people than others, but everyone can develop habits to improve their time management skills. Without solid time management, your work and well-being can suffer.
The significance of time management comes down to how much it impacts your personal and professional life. Time management is organising your day so that you find the best use for every moment. The keyword here is "the best use of every moment." Excellent time management allows you to create a healthy balance in your workflow and home life. The consequences of failed time management include missing deadlines and living with excessive stress. With the right time management skills and tools, you will experience many benefits from good time management. Once your time management efforts start to pay off in the form of accomplishments, you will feel more fulfilled by your performance.
Time is more valuable than money, yet people waste more time than money. Unless you're working on your most valuable task, you're not making the best use of your time. Tons of us waste time due to poor prioritisation, working on tasks that make us feel busy without actually helping us progress.
A lot of people suffer from completion bias. Completion bias is the tendency of people to feel compelled to complete a task once they have started it. We are more motivated to tackle tasks that we are confident we can meet because we get satisfaction from finishing them. The way the brains are wired, we more eagerly tackle tasks that we know we can complete because we get pleasure from achieving them. Being able to check an item off your to-do list is very mentally rewarding. This, of course, means that we're attracted to the tasks we can finish quickly, giving the lowest priority to the ones that take longer to complete.
On average, a person spends 4-6 hours on their smartphone every day. This means that every 4-5 days, we spend one full day on our phones, ignoring our real life for a virtual one. This further means that we would spend one full year being hooked to our screens every five years. Apart from our screen time, we spend 1-2 hours doing absolutely nothing that produces any result every day. If you track your time — minute by minute — you'll be amazed by this "random" category of time wasters.
What's alarming is that we don't waste 6-8 hours out of 24 hours of a day. We use this from our waking hours (i.e. 16-18 hours). That leaves us with less than 8 hours to get our work done, spend time with our family, learn new things, take care of our body and mind and everything else that we must do in a day. Life is not about being productive all the time. But life is indeed about getting things done when it needs to be done. You will waste time living without a purpose. You will waste time when you ignore your future self. You will waste time when you live in a distracting environment.
Many find it challenging to manage time because they try to manage the time they don't have. Time management is not about managing time at all; it is about managing yourself. How well you use your 24 hours in a day is down to you.
To be able to manage your time effectively, you must be intentional. Create and work through your to-do list. I use Trello to create my list. There are lots of software that will enable you to accomplish your task. 'Google Keep' can do the job as well. Sketching a to-do list might not seem like a groundbreaking technique, but it's one of the most powerful ways to become more productive. The best to-do lists include a variety of tasks: quick and urgent jobs that might be completed in 10 minutes and bigger, operational tasks that are a work in progress.
Writing a to-do list is the first step towards better time management. Prioritising your task is the next. Prioritisation guides you through the activities of the day in order of importance. As such, the tasks that matter most are dealt with first. Despite your best intentions, you get distracted. Distractions can come from social notifications, talkative colleagues, and the very human problem of procrastination. Sitting down and getting things done is almost always harder than it should be. You must stay focused as you manage the distractions.
Your future is created by what you do today, not what you will do tomorrow.
I don't have the time. Where can I find the time? Stop wasting my time.
24475 comments
-
Comment Link
Saturday, 06 August 2022 07:15
posted by wedding homepage
Hello! I've been following your web site for a while now and finally got the courage to go ahead and give you a shout out from New Caney Tx! Just wanted to mention keep up the great job!
-
Comment Link
Saturday, 06 August 2022 07:10
posted by create homepage for wedding online
Thanks a lot for sharing this with all of us you actually know what you're talking about! Bookmarked. Please also visit my site =). We could have a link exchange agreement between us!
-
Comment Link
Saturday, 06 August 2022 07:08
posted by wedding homepage
Good write-up, I am regular visitor of one's web site, maintain up the nice operate, and It's going to be a regular visitor for a long time.
-
Comment Link
Saturday, 06 August 2022 06:12
posted by bape outlet
I actually wanted to develop a remark in order to express gratitude to you for the nice tactics you are writing on this site. My considerable internet search has finally been rewarded with wonderful suggestions to write about with my friends and family. I would declare that many of us website visitors actually are rather blessed to live in a superb place with so many special professionals with great strategies. I feel really lucky to have come across your web pages and look forward to some more pleasurable minutes reading here. Thank you once again for everything.
-
Comment Link
Saturday, 06 August 2022 05:14
posted by supreme clothing
Thank you so much for giving everyone a very special opportunity to check tips from here. It is often so brilliant and as well , packed with a lot of fun for me and my office colleagues to search your website no less than 3 times every week to find out the newest things you will have. Of course, I am just actually motivated concerning the very good creative concepts served by you. Selected 1 ideas on this page are truly the best we've had.
-
Comment Link
Saturday, 06 August 2022 04:41
posted by jordan shoes
I wish to get across my passion for your generosity in support of persons that really want assistance with in this concept. Your very own dedication to getting the message all-around has been exceedingly good and has really enabled folks just like me to achieve their objectives. Your entire valuable publication entails a great deal a person like me and substantially more to my fellow workers. Best wishes; from each one of us.
-
Comment Link
Saturday, 06 August 2022 04:02
posted by Wholesale T-shirts in Malaysia
This information is so amazing thanks! I love sucking dick btw hmu
-
Comment Link
Saturday, 06 August 2022 01:40
posted by Veil For Pultrusion
B1 Fire Rated PU Expandable Foam Manual Type https://www.gnspufoamsealant.com/b1-fire-rated-pu-expandable-foam-manual-type.html
Veil For Pultrusion https://www.matex-frp.com/veil-for-pultrusion/ -
Comment Link
Saturday, 06 August 2022 01:36
posted by T shirt printing
Thanks for sharing excellent informations. Your web site is so cool. I'm impressed by the details that you have on this web site. It reveals how nicely you perceive this subject. Bookmarked this website page, will come back for extra articles. You, my pal, ROCK! I found just the information I already searched all over the place and just could not come across. What a perfect site.
-
Comment Link
Saturday, 06 August 2022 01:31
posted by kobe 11
I simply wished to say thanks again. I'm not certain what I would have undertaken in the absence of the information contributed by you on such area. It truly was the challenging issue in my view, however , seeing the very specialised approach you dealt with it made me to leap for fulfillment. Now i am happier for this service and thus sincerely hope you recognize what a great job you happen to be doing teaching some other people through your blog. Most probably you've never met all of us.
Leave a comment
Make sure you enter all the required information, indicated by an asterisk (*). HTML code is not allowed.