"CAN MY TIME EVER BE ENOUGH? (Learn to say "No")

 EVERYTHING CANNOT BE IMPORTANT IF EVERYTHING IS IMPORTANT, THEN NOTHING IS IMPORTANT

Let me paint a scenario of how you have been cheating yourself when you fail to give your time to things of higher priority:

You run a Dry Cleaning Business and you have a niche of high paying customers who request for a new service (They might want you to start running an indoor cleaning

service like cleaning their carpets) and you have some low paying customers who

request that you change your location to suit them. You then you go ahead to change your location only without considering the request of the high paying customer.

 I believe you will agree with me that it does not make any business sense. This scenario reflects what you do when you give more of your time to things of lower priority.

So, if my list looks like this (I will just generalize, you can be more detailed):

1. Spirituality

2. Health

3. Family

4. Impact

5. Finances

6. Career

So, on my list spirituality comes first, my health (taking care of myself which includes eating well, sleeping well…) comes second and all the way down to the sixth.

My priority is peculiar to me and yours is peculiar to you. We all don’t have the same priority, hence we can’t really judge others based on our own perception of time mismanagement. This is because your definition of priority differs from theirs.

It’s also possible for your priority to change at different stages of your life, so it can be reviewed.

So, when I plan my year, month, week, or day, the things I listed above take priority over the other. I am up by 2am this morning writing this article because it’s the first on my list of the things I have to do today.

Your priority scale should be set in your mind not just in your head because if it’s in your mind, it will program you to respond subconsciously to the different things that call for your time.

Learn to say NO

You are the boss! Yes, you are!

You are responsible for the decisions you make about what takes your time. You tell your time where it should go and where it shouldn’t.People find it a bit difficult to say “No” to other people on request for their time, I can relate to that because I have a hard time saying no, but I still say it anyway. Since you are the one who sets the priority, then you should be able to communicate that to others who come for your time…So, I don’t mean you should be rude and selfish.          You should learn to turn down requests that don’t align with your priority because, if you keep accepting every one of them, you will discover you lived for them and not for yourself.

                         ©Preshy