Listening to a great podcast here about Time Management, I got this sentence:
– How do you balance work and family?? You don’t balance it, you go home! There is no ‘more time’: it’s just using your time more effectively –
Two parts:
1. – How do you balance work and family?? You don’t balance it, you go home!-
GREAT!!!! Our life is like a house with three rooms: yourself, your family, your job. If these three rooms are not roughly of the same size, you are in trouble.
If you are not in a good physical shape, you’ll never be a good (as a man) father / husband / boss / colleague: you’ll be limited in what you CAN do.
If you don’t have love in your life, you’ll never find your balance and you’ll never be able to appreciate anything.
2. – There is no ‘more time’: it’s just using your time more effectively –
Time is a scarce resource and is unmanageable: you cannot compress it, you cannot go forward or backward, you cannot speed it up or slow down.
So the term ‘time management’ is a bit misleading: you don’t manage time you manage what you do in a fixed amount of time. Time management is about priorities: it’s about being more effective in the time God has given us. So it’s not a matter of doing more, it’s a matter of doing the most important things.
As Mark and Mike say in the same podcast: as a manager you are not payed to get MORE, you are payed to get BETTER begin more effective in the time you have.
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PierG
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May 30, 2006 at 6:17 am
Matsu
This post about having a fixed amount of time and learning to do more with that limited time reminded me of a quote I read many years ago. It went something like, “You have the exact number of hours in a day that Mozart, Gandhi, and Einstein had. So, what are you going to do, today?”
Any time I feel like I simply don’t have enough time to do everything that needs to get done, I remember that I am working with the same ‘raw time’ as everyone before us had, that includes the greatest artists, politicians, and scientists. That reminds me that it’s possible to do great things with only 24 hours in a day.
July 27, 2006 at 8:27 am
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