A
common excuse that a lot of people have for not achieving their goals
in life is the lack of time. They claim that they are too
busy. They have to study or work all day and then do all
sorts of
things at home. There may be kids to take care of
and
houses to clean. There's no time to pursue all the
things
that they really want to do in life. Life is
already so
overwhelming so who's got time to think about success? If
this is
the case for you, then I hear you loud and clear as a motivational
speaker, I can appreciate all the demands that life in general
have on us. A lot of us are constantly bogged down by
everyday
life. But don't worry as it just so happens that I have a twist on time
management training for you.
There's something we all have inside ourselves
that I call our ‘Internal Importance Allocator’. You probably
never heard of this term before even if you have been exposed to time
management techniques because I made it up. Yes,
it's a
fancy motivational speaker term. We assign importance
ratings to everything in life and allocate time to them. For
example, we all brush our teeth because we all rate dental health as
pretty important, right? We don’t want to gross out everyone
else
with bad breath. However, many of us don't do other things
that
are equally important for our health, like exercising. So
this
means that our Internal Importance Allocator may not always be working
right.
So every now and then, we
have to recalibrate our
Internal Importance Allocators to reassign importance ratings to
everything we do. After all, there's no way that
watching
TV should be rated as more important than our
health.
What's more important than our health? As unique time
managment techniques, think about some of
the
things you have been neglecting and list them along with the activities
that you normally do on a day-to-day basis. You will then
have a
list of things that you should be doing as well as your habitual
activities that you do on a daily basis. Then reassign
important
ratings to everything at the same time. You will
end up
with a better balance of priorities in your life. This is a
different way of approaching your own time management training.
If you then
look at a revised list of what's really important in your life and make
real committed decisions to work on them, rather than just wishes, you
would make the time for those goals. You will make a mental
‘kick
yourself in the behind’ to reallocate your time in a more effective way
that is constructive to success. Of course, this doesn't mean
that you should be a workaholic. Being a ‘life champion’ (a
term
that is used in my book, The Life Champion In You)
is also about balance since all areas of your life are considered.
Time management techniques should have balance.
Remember,
your goals should not be on a wish list. Instead, they should
be
on a top priority to-do list and mine is in my micro tool (a planning
tool that is also described in The Life Champion In You).
Recalibrate your Internal Importance Allocator as often as required in
order for you to stay in tune with what's really important in
life. The take home message here from this
motivational
speaker is that if something is truly important in your life,
you will make the time for it. Now this is really putting
effective time management into action with a slightly different angle.
Hope this spin on time management techniques works
for you.
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