Extreme Self Care

Most people think of time management as a system for organizing the day or week in order to maximize efficiency. I’d like to propose a different view of time management that is complimentary to the traditional view but has far greater implications for your quality of life.

Rather than viewing time on the small scale of a day or a week or a month or even a year let’s think of how effective your time has been over a lifetime.

There are 8,766 hours in an average year. This means that by the age of 20 you have lived 175,320 hours, by 30 it is 262,980, by 40 you have lived 350,640 and by 50 the total hours lived adds up to 438,300 on so on.

My question is…are you getting value for those hours?

If you were paying someone, by the hour, to build a magnificent life would you be happy that you had got your money’s worth if that person had built your current life in the total number of hours that you have lived?

With traditional time management it is easy to become super efficient each and every day and yet when viewed over a lifetime you have really not achieved anything magnificent or inspiring.In recent years the emphasis in time management has been to ensure that you are doing what is important rather than what is urgent but still it is possible that you achieve many small victories in the short term yet your life as a whole has not been a masterpiece.

My suggestion is this…. that at the beginning of each week, before you plan yours days and hours for the week, you imagine yourself looking back from ten years in the future.

Then ask yourself — what do I need to do this week so that when I look back I will honestly say that those ten years were a magnificent part of my life and I am totally and enthusiastically proud to have lived them.

The only time that you can actually use is the precise moment that you are presently experiencing. However without a frame of reference most people fritter away those present moments. By viewing each moment as a dot of paint on the canvas of a magnificent life then it is far more likely that you will treasure the moment and use it to enhance your life.

At the start of each month repeat the weekly exercise but instead of thinking from the perspective of ten years into the future think from the perspective of look back from the last few moments of your life. Imagine that you have finally run out of time and you are assessing whether your life was a success, a failure or just another average existence. What would you really like to see? What sort of life would you really be happy to have lived?

Once you have this picture in your mind ask yourself how you need to use your time in order to be contributing to that amazing adventure that your life should be. There are many different religious and philosophical views on life after death and reincarnation and planes of existence but the only things you can be sure of is that you have this life that you are experiencing now and that one day this life will be over.

Life is not a practice session it is the real thing.

Every moment you live is a little piece that, when taken together with all the other moments, creates your unique life. The clearer the picture you have of that life as a whole, the easier it is to know where and how this present moment best fits into that life.

Try the weekly and monthly exercises outlined above as you will find your life taking a more inspiring direction.

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Is that really a word, “unmanagement” ?

“Sorry, we have no matches for unmanagement”, well I guess if I can’t find the definition on the internet it isn’t.

But the point of me using the word unmanagement, you can’t actually manage time. Do you feel the bolt of lightening? That is correct. You can not manage time! No matter what you do, there is no way to stop time, or slow it down or make it dance. Look at all the trouble that Adam Sandler got into when he tried to control time in the movie “Click”.

Seriously though, we really can’t control life, the seconds, minutes and hours tick by no matter what we are doing. What we can control, is how we use our time, we control our activities and our environments. There is not much sense in worrying about the things that we can’t actually control.

If you are like me and 50% of the people in the world, we have WAY more stuff going on then we can find the time for. Now we have to choose what we spend our time doing.

These is where the tricky part comes… you need to know what your core values are, you know that ones that make you tick, help you make important decisions. Your values also allow you to prioritize how you are going to spend your time.

If your top core value is Family, well then you are going to make spending time with your family the most important priority. So when you are faced with the decision, “do I work late tonight or do I go to my daugther’s soccer game?” You will decide to go to the soccer game.

Unmanaging Time is the easiest thing in the world as long as you know what your core values are.

Step 1) What are your core values?
Step 2) Put those values into action!
Step 3) Enjoy your life!

Now some of you may be saying, it is not that easy, you don’t understand my life. Those my friend are excuses for not really understanding yourself and what would really make you happy. People are the most content with their lives when they are doing what they want to be doing, when they feel they are in control of their lives. Let me repeat that, people are happy when they are in control of their lives, not when they are letting time control them. We control our lives, by not sitting idly by and not control your actions. Now if we are really luck we are enjoying our lives and loves so much that we don’t even notice time go by.

To Help you discover your Core values, here is a great list that will get you started in the right direction. Click Here

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Lists are not the end all and be all of organizing your life, well they can be for some people. For me they help me prioritize the important things that I want to do.

I confess I have probably 5-6 different coil note books, they are light and pretty durable. I have one for brilliant come to me in the night or in the shower ideas. I have one that I have used for teleclasses, keeping notes and such. The most important one is my Dream Big one. It is my vision for the future.

My partner, he uses lists too, but his are all on the computer. He uses software feature to categorize and prioritize his tasks.

I use my lists for one very important function, so I don’t have to remember… if I had to remember every little detail of every little task I might serious have my head explode. Writing things down, allows for my head to forget about that thing until the right time.

I have several goals that I am working on accomplishing this year. I have taken the time to write those down and I have created some milestones along the way to make sure I am keep moving in the right direction.

But I have read about a difference strategy for doing the day to day tasks that may assist with reaching the goals faster. I am going to be trying this out through the next few months to see if the strategy works well for me.

Let me explain: Instead of writing tasks, you write next actions.

Example: Passport required. This seems like a reasonable task, but what is all involved in this. well, picking up the application, filling out the paper work, getting your picture, getting it signed by your guarantee, taking it to the govt office, waiting for it to arrive. Two things can happen with such a generic task, first you could become overwhelmed with all the things that you need to do, that you never actually start it. Second you might actually miss tasks that need to be done, so it takes you much longer to go back and do then correctly.

Next Actions, or what I like to say Inspired Actions.

Example: Take passport application to the Gov’t Office to file and pay the fee.
This is easier and simple. You know exactly what to do, with very little thinking, you already did that already. The Step before this, you should have gathered the address and hours they are open. So you are ready to go.

Can you see how small change could have a Big impact on how you do things. Each step is very small and simple and would take only a few minutes. And if you take one action a day you will be at the end and completed the goal long before you even realize how much stress you eliminated from your life by changing this small thing.

Try it!

Let me know how this strategy works out for you. Post a Comment!

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Procrastination can creep in and easily become a habit. Once it does, it erodes your capacity to function effectively. But it can be a hard habit to break. However, with some honest self-assessment and an organized and attainable plan of attack, it can be overcome successfully.

Be gentle with yourself when you decide to try and kick the procrastination habit. It may be so ingrained that you don’t fully recognize all the ways you actually procrastinate. Start out by taking a large or complicated task and breaking it down into smaller parts that you can accomplish easier. It’s important to bear in mind that the most difficult or complex tasks are simply just a series of smaller jobs.

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Time management is basically about being focused. The Pareto Principle also known as the ‘80:20 Rule’ states that 80% of efforts that are not time managed or unfocused generates only 20% of the desired output. However, 80% of the desired output can be generated using only 20% of a well time managed effort. Although the ratio ‘80:20′ is only arbitrary, it is used to put emphasis on how much is lost or how much can be gained with time management.

Some people view time management as a list of rules that involves scheduling of appointments, goal settings, thorough planning, creating things to do lists and prioritizing. These are the core basics of time management that should be understood to develop an efficient personal time management skill. These basic skills can be fine tuned further to include the finer points of each skill that can give you that extra reserve to make the results you desire.

But there is more skills involved in time management than the core basics. Skills such as decision making, inherent abilities such as emotional intelligence and critical thinking are also essential to your personal growth.

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