Chris Barrow came and spoke on our Year Implant course on modern marketing last week.
It’s an extraordinary session, as Chris always provides and really thought provoking.
One of the questions at the end from one of our young colleagues though was the usual golden nugget on ‘time management’.
“How do you fit it all in?”.
There is no more time, there is only tasks within that time. Time management is task management.
Chris has a particular line on time management which fits his life and his lifestyle, and it will be different to yours and different to mine.
You can use many tools including day planners, electronic list keepers, project managers, pads of paper, whiteboards and any number of other things that might allow you to write down the number of tasks you’ve got to do.
You can use task organisation matrices such as DDDD (do, dump, delegate, defer) or any other number of acronyms or suggestions in order to limit the overwhelm.
You can turn off your notifications and switch off your emails, you can become rude or reclused or any number of strategies to approach this.
In the end you need a vision to know where you’re going.
You need to understand then that the tasks that you do are to help you fulfil your vision, whatever that might be.
It’s fine to deviate off the path to go somewhere else that makes you happy or is interesting at that time, but it will slow down your progress towards your vision.
Finally, though and one thing that really struck me in the brief discussions about time management last Friday is this.
It’s altogether possible that you’re earning too much money and that you’re sacrificing the glorious time that you have for more money at the end of the month.
That’s the place that I would start first.
I don’t have time to see my friends/family/self/go to the gym/cinema/all of those other things because you’re working or you’re too tired to go.
If it’s a chore to spend time with your family because they’re getting in the way of work, then you need to decide whether you want to spend time with your family or go to work.
The majority of people who read this blog will have the ability to alter their lifestyles slightly and cut down on what they earn to increase the amount of time they have.
Then it’s up to you what tasks/activities you put into the time you get.
Blog Post Number - 2983
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