Think of personal time management… Is it really possible?

Effective time management involves many components that together create natural time management skill.

Effective time managers all do certain things that allow them to succeed. What are those ‘things’?

Many Chinese whispers exist in the industry and it took me literally years of research to win with stress management for personal time management.

My blog contains many personal thoughts surrounding personal time management. I can suggest you begin at time management.

Here are some general tips to get you thinking:

Know what you want to accomplish.

Organize your life around the things you want to accomplish.

Use reminders to keep you focused.

Use discipline, effort, and passion to keep you active on your projects.

I used to think time management skills were to be as close to robot like as possible.

But by 15 years old I discovered I’m ‘only human’. I realized I couldn’t have ‘absolute total control’. But there was a light at the end of the tunnel.

My Time Management Skill

I can now focus on what’s important, yet simultaneously remaining aware and sensitive to interruptions and new opportunities.

This weekend for example I must have spent 70% of my waking time as hard focused productive time. I’ve accomplished a lot in this one weekend.

But time management training usually fails to deliver the attitude and techniques that are necessary for personal requirements.

What does it mean to ‘manage time’?

We can’t take a clock and slice it up into well managed bite sized pieces, like we could a cake.

Managing time happens as a natural skill when you understand the rock and water analogy of a new time management paradigm.

Here’s a hint, do not schedule activities to time. And do not prioritize activities by so called ‘importance’.

Your time is the most precious commodity you have got. You can earn more money. You can buy more things. But your life, under today’s level of technology, will end at an average life expectancy of 75.

That’s no way to run a universe. But until life extension technologies are in commercial use, we are going to have to make the most of what little time we have got.

To successfully time manage you must start from that awareness. How much time you have in life.

From their your natural and honest skill of managing time will develop.

Then, to manage time, you can identify the big things you want to spend your time on, where your time goes currently, and put together a schedule of managed time.

See stress management for much more, and to find out exactly how I achieve success: stress management.

On my blog there are free time management videos and you can take a time management self-assessment quiz to uncover unnatural time management techniques may be stifling your time management success right now.

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