TIME MANAGEMENT
By Ayo Emakhiomhe
INTRODUCTION
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One
of the greatest skills you can possess today is time management.
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We
will take a look at time management to establish it as a core skill. If it is a
skill, you can learn and master it
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If
you get the basics of time management right, success in every other area of
your life is guaranteed to be achieved more smoothly.
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Time
management is all about you: yourself definition; the ‘why’ and the ‘how’,
managing yourself better and achieving in other people’s time.
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Time
management is actually life management-time management goes beyond planning
each day; it starts with planning your life, from the end to the present day,
from the future to now, from the tombstone to the cradle. It is when you get it
right with the main big issues that the small day to day issues will fall into
place and have meaning in your life.
WHO ARE YOU?
The best way to fulfill your
potential is just to be yourself. You will not achieve great results by
imitating someone else.
To know who you are, write an
Epitaph today.
What were you able to write? Do you
think that this is what would be written on your Epitaph if you were to die
now?
Secondly, write a list of the five
most important people in your life and what you hope to have left in their
hearts; focus on the way you have behaved rather than on the actual things you
have done.
It is said that you can tell how
much importance an individual places on someone by the amount of time they
spend with them. If your list is not representative of where you are spending
your time, then you need to change it.
Thirdly, write a list of the five
most important things in your life. Also, it is said that you can tell how much
importance an individual places on a thing by the amount of time they spend with
it. If the list you just created is not representative of where you are
spending your time, then you need to change it.
Commit to making items/people on
your list that you are currently neglecting a focus for the beneficial results
you achieve from implementing the other activities in this course.
DISCOVER YOUR PERSON
How often do we take time out to
reflect on our lives: what are we contributing, how do we benefit those around
us, who we have become.
To discover who you really are, for
the next 1 or 2 weeks, move around more consciously and note the following
(possibly take some notes)
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Listen
to how people talk to you; people talk to you with intonations and inflections
about how they feel about you
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Listen
to how you talk to others; a passage from the bible states that ‘from the
abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh’. Your words say a lot about who you
are, it tells us where you are going to and where you are coming from.
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Reflect
on the number of times you get annoyed or frustrated. When you know where you
are going to your patience will be natural, when you are full of love, you
anger will be rare, when you are wise, your frustration will be a needle in a
haystack.
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Check
how many times you smile; learn to appreciate everything about life genuinely,
you live life only once.
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Monitor
how many times you say ‘thank you’ genuinely; learn to be truly grateful for
everything, no one owes you nothing, you owe yourself and your world
everything. Celebrate small victories.
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Check
how often you plan, implement and review your actions. He who fails to plan,
plans to fail.
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Reflect
on how many new friends you have made; life is about relationships, seek them,
treasure them, everyday. Make it a point to make at least 1 new friend a month
for life, move out of that comfort zone, RELATE!
To understand yourself fully, you
should walk the same distance in your own shoes. What I am saying is based on
the age old principle that suggests that in order to understand another person;
you should walk a mile in their shoes.
YOU ARE UNIQUE
Note that you as a person are a
unique combination. Your uniqueness is comprised of:
v
Your
physical state. For example, your physical fingerprints are not the same with
anyone on the face of this planet
v
Your
spiritual state; man is a spiritual being living in a box called our body.
Anything that happens in the physical must first happen in the spiritual. No
matter what you believe in, you have a spiritual nature and it is unique to you
alone. God relates to everyone individually no matter the number of beings on
the face of this earth.
v
Your
circumstances; you have control over your circumstances to a great extent. Your
circumstances define you and you define your circumstances.
v
Your
environment; your environment is what you see it as and what you make of it and
nothing more. If you see your environment as harsh, it will become so.
v
The
times in which you live; today is now and there will never be another today,
the experience you are having now is yours alone and will not be for another
person tomorrow, it can only be similar.
This combination of time and place
is sufficient for us to understand that right now we should be having the time
of our lives.
It is time to discover our USP-our
strength, our Universal selling point.
Think through the things that make
you unique, those things that make up your strengths, those things you do
exceptionally well. Write them down and list them in order of priority. The
number 1 item is your strongest and it is the one item that people will
immediately use to recognize you.
Having discovered that, now go out
daily and find every opportunity to demonstrate this unique quality. As you hit
the road daily, note the following:
v
We
identify too closely with what we do instead of who we are.
v
You
are a person, not a job title.
v
Your
occupation is what occupies your time not what you invest your time on.
v
You
are not defined by what you do but by who you are.
v
You
are everything, and, everything is you.
v
Maximize
the value that you get from every moment that you live
v
Activity
is the key and is only the reason why successful people benefit from momentum
in their lives and in their businesses
v
The
risk of risk-less living is the greatest risk of all. – Stephen Covey
v
FEAR-
this is False Evidences Appearing Real; it has no power in your life, stop
giving your time to it.
v
Never
point a finger of blame at someone else, throw solutions at others instead.
Successful people do not dwell on issues that are not contributing to their
goals. Before you pass the buck, lay the
blame or find the fault, look at the 3 fingers pointing back at you.
v
Think
positive always
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