96    What’s happening in your life 5 Years from Now?  

 If reading this material has got you thinking about what could be happening in you life 5 years from now, we have done our job. You should be putting things in your Life List that stretch to 5 years and well beyond. Days weeks, months, years fly by and unless you can get ahead of the curve you will be at risk of not having enough data on hand when you need to make critical decisions. We make bad decisions when we don’t have all the facts at our disposal when we have to make the decisions. 

  One of the reasons you want to work on getting a good handle on what you want out of life now and in the future. You can’t properly plan for some thing you haven’t properly identified Remember. Out of your head, into the System, onto the paper. 

97    Get Serious- Get Real 

 At some point you have to get off the side lines and into the game, in a meaningful way. There is the catch, in a meaningful way. What’s a meaningful way?  Actions speak louder than words. Turn what you want to do into concrete actions that will move you down the path to gaining control of your time and getting the results you want to get. 

    The same old habits will get you the same old results. Time Management is about personal change and personal change has to be translated into actions, new actions. 

98    Clock In Meeting Room, Clocks Everywhere 

  Talk the talk, walk the walk. If you want to be on time, and leave on time, make it easy for every one to be on the same page. For some reason, most meeting rooms, even most offices don’t have visible clocks on the wall. It’s weird but that’s the way it seems these days. No one says you have to sit there all day and look at the clock but you should have a reminder some where that lets people relate to the time and the passing of it. 

99    Delegate 

It wouldn’t be a complete Top 100 without a mention about delegation.  People always think about delegation in terms of passing off what you don’t want to do to someone else. I’m sure that happens but proper delegation is a valuable tool in your Time Management arsenal. I will only address two here, this pertinent topic is covered in more detail in the PTS.  Making sure a task ends up in the hands of the most qualified and trained person is crucial if you want to get the most done in the shortest period of time. Delegation allows you to spread the work around and does not allow for bottlenecks to occur. It does nothing for Productivity to have work piling up on your desk while other people in your department are marking time on skut work. 

 100 Time Management Takes Time 

There was no attempt to rank this list, except for this one, the last one. It sounds funny but it’s true. If you want to get some positive results from your investigation and interest into Time Management, you have to be prepared to spend some time, to invest some time in your future.  The old stand by that you are just too busy right now just won’t cut it, at least not for someone who actually wants to make some changes and get into the game. 

  You have to carve out some time and spend some of it on your self, think of it as a spa for your mind.