1. Much bogus stuff and misleading
material is written about time
management. In this blog post, we
talk about time management from a
different point of view. Maybe one
that you have not considered
before…
Much time management writing and training focus (including our own) focus on
time as a RESOURCE. The ultimate resource in fact. The one thing you can’t
buy. You can buy other people’s (by employing them) but we all have the same
24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 (or 366…) days in a year. It’s up to us how
we use it.
At this point you may wish to revisit this blog post of multitasking
And there’s the rub.
Time (like money,) is a resource. (Same as bricks to build a house, wallpaper to
wallpaper a room, money to pay for business expansion etc etc.
And what’s the one thing we never have enough of when doing any task ?
Resources…
As an aside – planning and strategising for increased time management is
always DOOMED to fail. Like any resource – the question is always WHERE is
the extra resources going to come from? You are probably unable to magic an
extra half hour out of thin air.
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2. And so – when faced with time management
problems – we buy more… resources to manage.
More books to read, more seminars to go to – more resources.
What would be a time management strategy to blow this out of the
water?
By focusing time management efforts on RESOURCEFULNESS – then we can
really make big gains. Instead of managing resources – (very dull) we can start to
make things interesting.
Here are a few examples.
(Generally speaking – resourcefulness and personal effectiveness can be
increased quite quickly by firmly but very politely speaking your mind when
something is unhelpful to your situation or goals – but this is another blog post).
That networking event or meeting that is droning on – just do what everyone is
thinking – remark (via the feedback sheet) to the host that the event was a poor
use of your time.
The alternative? Sitting til the end to “be polite” is letting someone else plan and
implement your time management strategy…
Instead of spending all that time learning a new skill – (these just become
resources in your head that you need to manage – like all other resources, read
this blog post on the human split test
If you really must invest in time management training, here is some.
This article was first published on the Sharp End Training Blog
http://www.sharp-end-training.co.uk