Time Management

 

So, you think you're busy? My typical day starts at 4 a.m. and ends at 10 p.m. What occupies my time? In short, life. Personal relationships and interdependencies are a necessity for life as is entertainment. And work, well…work, while viewed by many (I am not one of them) as a wasted effort of one's energy, is a fact of life.

Managing time, or better said, managing life can prove to be a difficult exercise in frustration with nothing learned as a result of the lesson. If this tone rings familiar, take heart, you are not necessarily the problem. Part of the problem lies squarely on the shoulders of failed time management theories that have bombarded business seminars, lectures and volumes of books over the past several decades. But if you are not willing to completely give up hope yet, the following describes techniques proven effective in an effort to bring greater efficiency to busy lives like yours and mine.

Many time management theories have dissolved as quickly as they were introduced based simply on the fact the time invested in administering the theory relative to the time savings yield was negative. In other words, the time invested did not return any increased time efficiency. The problem with many said theories is they are rooted in business application. Time management is about life, not just business.

If you work only eight hours per day there is another…

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