5. The Computer – Friend or Foe ?

    We are addressing the impact of computers on peoples Time Management. This is an area where you and I should have a general meeting of the minds. I have a clear a very specific position on this topic. My position is simple. When it comes to Time Management, proper Time Management that is computers are defiantly in the Foe camp. If computers were are friends when it comes to Time Management, then the large part of the world that has gone computerized should now be well organized, getting the most out of there collective lives, be stress free and be happy and content. Does this sound like you?, your friends ?, your co-workers ? Didn’t think so.

   Just because everyone went out and bought a PC doesn’t mean overnight they also acquired skills they never had before. Unless you were already happy with the results your were generating everyday at work , were happy and content at home, then getting a PC only means you are getting the same negative results, only faster !!!

    Yes you can buy computer programs for 49.95 upwards to 200.00, even 300.00 dollars that promise with a flick of  switch your life will be instantly better, more organized and more fulfilled. Go ahead, buy one of these instant success programs and be sure to let me know how that works out for you.

  6. What Does Your Workplace Look Like ?

    All I can tell you is, when I can actually see the bottom of my desk, I get more done in a shorter period of time, it’s that simple. You can’t be organized in the middle of quagmire. To not spend the time it takes to clear out a decent work space for yourself shows a real lack of commitment to getting yourself up and ready to fight the good fight. Give yourself a fighting chance.

  7. Meetings- Start and Stop On Time

     The amount of time we all spend in meetings is staggering. When you consider that there are 2, 3 10 people in a meeting, having them start late and then run over time is a horrendous waste of time . If you are trying to get your time under control, this is an area that is ripe for the pickings. Your time is valuable, show this fact to those that you meet with by starting when you say you are and ending when you say you will. I have a reputation for being fanatical about my meeting times, start and finish. If people are not on time, start sand let them catch up. If the meeting is due to start and the other people are not there, leave and spend the time on issues that are important to you. Being late for a meeting shows the other people who showed up on time that the person arriving late has no regard for there time and even less regard and respect for you.

  8. Valuing Your Time

    If you don’t have respect for yourself, how do you expect other people to react to you? The same goes for your time. For you to achieve your full potential, it will only be when you come to the realization that how you deal with your  time is the key. I believe that everyone has an intuitive understanding of what is important to their personal success and fulfillment. What stands in our way is the constant battle we all have with securing enough time in the day to get those priority tasks done that will advance us along the path to getting what needs to get done when it needs to get done.

    I take a  hard line when it comes t protecting my time. Its valuable and I only have a set of hours to work with each day. When that day is gone, so is my allotted time. If I wasted that time, it’s gone forever. I can’t make up for that lost time. That’s a fallacy. If I wasted Mondays productive time, I can’t make up for it on Tuesday because there are things to do on Tuesday that are Tuesday tasks, not Mondays tasks. Wasting time is an accumulative negative that you can’t recover from.

   This isn’t to say that you can’t regroup and start over and still be productive, success, stress free and happy. It just means that the time frame you have to do it in just shrunk by a little bit. It shrinks every time you don’t value every minute you have and don’t approach  every day trying to squeeze the life out of it.

  9. Take  Responsibility

    This is probably one of the key issues in taking control of your life and your time. Not until you take responsibility for your success or failure, will you be able to make any meaningful strides in improving and enriching your life. You have to aggressively protect your time because by controlling your time, you control the quality of the activities you perform inside that protected time zone.

  10.  You’re  A , B, C”s 

  An important component of the PTS is our method of ranking priority activities. It’s a crucial step in organizing your time through ranking your key activities. A is the most important, followed by B and C.

These rankings are part of your to do lists as well as how and when you time activate activities. The trap that all of us fall into is not that we don’t put in a decent days work, it’s that we allow B and C  activities to creep into our day and rob us of time that should have been spent on A activities. Nothing is more demoralizing than working hard all day and coming  home feeling that you had not accomplished the really important tasks. Following our program of A, B, C’s will prevent that from happening

 

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