I Need More Time In My Life!!!!!
Here are 7 Simple and Easy Steps To Beat Procrastination and Get 1 Extra Hour Of Life Every Day !
Listen to someone’s conversation long enough and you will come across statements such as “I don’t have enough time,” or “I need my time in my life.” I am sure you heard it as well. Have you maybe said it yourself? The simple reality is that we have all the time there is in the world! Each and every one of us has 24 hours in a day. No more. No less. It is what we do with our time that determines our effectiveness.
The issue of time management is really life management. Life is simply broken down to allocations of time. Time and life are both precious and limited commodities. So if you want more time in your life, or what appears to be “more life,” you have to get the most out of each day. That means getting the most output, simply by using 24 hours in the best possible way.
Here are seven of the simplest, yet most powerful tips to get more done and get more time. Or, as I like to say: ’seven ways to get more life out of your day’.
A WARNING THOUGH! If you are quick to dismiss these seven proven strategies as just another nice time management article, I have a challenge for you. Stating today, do each on of these things daily. Yes, tick them off as something you did. A daily ritual, if you like. Do that for twenty-one consecutive days and watch how much more you get done.
Here we go.
1. Ask yourself this question, first up in the day. What is the most important thing to do today? It is the task that, if not done, has the most serious consequences. It could be the biggest loss you will make, or the greatest cause of emotional pain. If you are honest with yourself you will find that there will always be something that is ‘the most important thing to do’. Get serious with yourself. You may not like it, but you know what it is. Identify it.
2. Do that most important thing, straight away. Or do it at the soonest time that’s most practical. Best if you can to do it before anything else and then discipline yourself to complete it until it is finished. Rearrange your daily patterns if need be, so you can accomplish this – it’s vital. Imagine how you would feel if, everyday, you started your day doing your most important task. How would you then feel for the rest of the day? How much more energy, patience, and peace or mind would you have for the rest of the day? It is better to be in front of the game rather than be behind the eight ball, playing catch-up all day.
3. Separate the urgent from the important. If we don’t guard ourselves, the urgent things for the day sap us of all our productivity. Some urgent demands are important but if we stop and evaluate, we may find that are not so important, and that they can wait. Try it. You don’t have to answer every phone call, every email, or respond to every person who comes into your office. You must schedule a time in your day to do your most important tasks and block off, say “later”, or schedule a time for all the urgent issues to be dealt with.
4. Learn to say no to some things. Most people have an inability to say ‘no’. They get involved in more projects, committees, activities, and unimportant issues. Their mind loses focus, and it simply reacts to the next thing that comes along. Learning to say no – in a polite way – puts you back in control. You don’t have to be rude. Simply decide to put the emphasis back on your most important task and schedule a later time for the other things, or eliminate then altogether if they really don’t add value to your life. People will respect you more, and will be less likely to waste your time in the future
5. Work with a list. This one may sound obvious, however I am never surprised by the number of people who think in their head and never on paper. Use a ‘to-do list’, a diary, a whiteboard, anything you need, as long as you write things done and get organized. These days you can get all sort of sophisticated devices, software and equipment to remind you, prioritise, and alert you of any tasks. If it is written down, it won’t get lost, because even those with the best of memory can lose track of some things. Just feel the peace of mind from not constantly having it in your head, for a change.
6. Separate your list into ABCDE priority. Allocate a letter to each task you need to do, from A to E; ‘A’ represents the most important tasks. There can be serious negative consequences if you don’t do an ‘A’ task. ‘B’ stands for something important; something you should do, but not something as important as an ‘A’ task. ‘C’ is for something that would be nice to do, ‘D’ is for task you can delegate to some else, and ‘E’ is for an unimportant task that can instead be eliminated from the list. The rule is doing your ‘A’s first, never letting a ‘B’ or ‘C’ tasks get in the way.
7. Continually ask yourself this same question with every activity you engage in. Is this task that I am doing helping me move towards what’s important: my goals, my values, my income, is it taking me backward? It is either generating a benefit to you, or a waste of time. Be honest with your answer, and remember, don’t kid yourself – you are only robbing your own time and life. If the answer is yes then it is adding value to you if not then replace the activity with one that does.
Remember, we only have one true moment of power in our life, and it’s in this moment called now. Treasure it. Don’t waste it. Once it’s gone, it is gone forever, and you never get that moment back. Besides, who knows how many moments of ‘now’ we really have? Apply these simple principles to your life for the next 21 days, and prove to yourself once and for all how much potential and power you really do have.
Do it now!
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