"CAN MY TIME EVER BE ENOUGH? By PRESHY.
I have! Some people request for more time to sleep, work, eat, play, study…So let me ask you “why you are requesting for more time?”
To be honest with you, you don’t
necessarily need more time, all you
need is to know how to manage the
time you already have. By “manage” I mean using your time in the best way that suits you. It is important to note that you can never manage time,you can only manage the use of time available to you. It is important to manage your time because you are all that you are right now because of the things you gave your time to…read that again. You are this good in your career, business, at speaking, playing football games, cooking, etc. because you gave your time to it.
Time is a resource that is common to all.
The major reason we have to manage our time is that we have several things that call for our time and time is a limited resource.
There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important things. I bet you don’t manage the oxygen you breathe in and out because you have it in abundance.
• Do you never have enough time to accomplish all that you have proposed?
• Are you always overwhelmed by all you have to do?
• Do you procrastinate very often?
I had a speaking engagement earlier this year on this subject and
I believe you will find it very helpful, hence the reason I’m sharing this with you.
Gaining mastery over how you manage your time is a process.
Over time, you will build the capacity to manage your time until it becomes your way of life.
We have so many activities running through the days, weeks, months, and years. Sometimes, you look back to say to yourself “it’s 2 years already” how can I account for this time I spent in the past 2 years?.
You have to learn that it is more important to make time count than count the time, I will say it again “it is more important to make time count than count the time.
Setting Priorities is the Hub of Time Management
I hear a lot of people say that, I couldn’t do this and that because I didn’t have enough time. Let me tell you this, everybody has time, but they give their time to what is of priority over what they claimed not to have time for. What you give your time to shows what you live for or shows what you attach importance to. You have to be intentional about managing your time. No one is going to manage your time your best interest, but rather they will manage your time to suit themselves.
So, first things first, you need to have a meeting with yourself, write an exhaustive list of everything you do, and other things you would love to do but you haven’t been able to provide the time for, it might be over 100 and it might be less than 10.
Then start to rearrange it in the order of priority — The item on the list with the highest priority should be on top and follow that order all the way down to the item
with the lowest priority. Having done this, you will observe that you might have been giving more of your time to activities of lower priority. This is the main reason why you can’t really account for your time.
To be continued...
©Preshy
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