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I have noticed an interesting screening mechanism that people use—the length of the message. If the message is short they read it. If it is long, they do not. This is one reason I decided to contribute to this blog. I find the messages short and to the point but still with thoughtful insights.
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Each morning, every day of your life from birth to death, your personal Time banker hands you a new account, all to your name with 86,400 seconds. Amazingly enough, your personal Time banker will not discuss with you any previous day’s time losses, he is very forgiving. He does not require any restitution either; the rule is that the account must be spent to zero balance within a 24 hour period. The 86,400 seconds can not be hoarded, or stored, or saved, not offered to someone else as a loan. You must use all of them. The next day your balance will be zero.
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Urgent/Important Matrix helps you think about your priorities, and to determine which of your activities are important or not, urgent or not urgent and to have clarity which are, essentially, distractions.
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Basic shortages lead people to make poor decisions. That’s because, I believe, the brain can only process so much. The problem seems to be the same across all income levels, gender and ethnicities. People are distracted and have a shortage of focus. When you desperately need a drink of water, it’s hard to think about anything else even if you are not in the middle of the dessert. Being short on money, all kinds of budget concerns will block your thinking process. Basic shortages will impair your ability to think with clarity and make correct decisions.
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The truth is that your Time Management will be compromised unless you put the car in gear and move your foot onto the accelerator. If you are going to stay still or work around the project but not on the project, you are “Getting Nowhere”. Maybe you can relate to this?
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The reality is that most of us in small business today barely make it through the top 20% of our to-do lists. We severely strain our relationships, miss important life events, and generally take care of ourselves last. Stress builds and builds. Life starts to seem out of control, not even close to what we dreamed of when we started our small business. Surely, something has to give, but what? Where to start?
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This Matrix is a simple way of helping yourself to choose which activities, tasks or projects to prioritize if you wish to make the most of your time and opportunities. You can also “see’ clearly which ones you will need to drop. After all, you are the “manager of your time” and you can incorporate the tool to choose activities intelligently. The alternative is involving you in activities that could be low-yield and very time consuming.
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For all of us that have spent money and time on Time Management techniques, articles, blogs, webinars… the list is endless, I have this epiphany to share with you: Time management is a myth. Given that the day having only 24 hours, we can only manage ourselves within the timeframe given.
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Experimenting with different tactics to find the best way to maximize the use of time brings to mind Dwight David “Ike” Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States. Ike based his oval office decisions on the following: “What is important is seldom urgent, and what is urgent is seldom important.” He could not have been more right.
Let’s take a closer look at this concept, the Eisenhower Matrix. This method was made popular by Stephen Covey in his book “First Things First.” With the limitations on available time, the path to perfection is prioritization. When confronted with the scores of tasks to be done each day, two questions separate the items on the to-do list: First, is the task important? Second, is it urgent?
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According to OfficeTime’s most recent survey, 47% named e-mail as the biggest time killer. As a matter of fact, of those polled by OfficeTime, 40% admitted they spend an average of 1-3 hours a day dealing with email.