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Success is correlated to the choices we have made, and continue to make, regarding how we spend the time of our life. Quite simply, if you choose to continue doing things that waste time, you are willingly relegating to the trash bin-of- life moments that you will never recapture--unproductive moments, idle moments, moments that add little or nothing to the quality of your life or to your family.
Be inspired by the words of management guru Peter Drucker: "Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time." Vow to care for time the way effective executives do. Identify your time-wasters and commit to finding cures for these causes of lost minutes, hours, years, lives.
It was also Peter Drucker who stated that efficiency means "doing things right," while effectiveness means "doing the right things right." Begin your time-saving plan by finding out how you currently spend time. (You'd be surprised at how much is wasted in idle chatter or e-chatter.) Once you've analyzed your log, decide what must be eliminated.
"Fire-fighting" has been identified as one of the worst time-wasters of all. If you wait until the last minute to do things, then you panic and rush around, doing a poor job, stressing yourself, and consuming more time than you would have needed if you'd been organized. To avoid fire-fighting is to apply this formula: Divide each day by deadline dates: three hours for things that must be done today; three hours for those that must be done by next week; one hour for things you must have ready next month; 1/2 hour for things due in six months; and left-over minutes for those projects with a deadline within the next year.
Think about what you have to do on both short-term and long-term bases. Then, plan a schedule for each time. Finally, follow these tips. 1) Let go of perfectionism.
2) "Chunk" your tasks. Then do the chunks, rather than individual tasks.
3) Get up 20 minutes earlier than usual for one whole month. Use the time wisely.
4) Use a to-do list, every day.
5) Have a team meeting with your family every Sunday. Determine what the new week's must-do's are.
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