Time Management is an Oxymoron

Are you running out of time as you balance work with your personal life? Have you tried time management training, seeking time management tips or reading time management articles and books? And you still have a problem?

Guess what? You are not alone. This is because time management is an oxymoron.

Simply speaking, how can you manage a constant? Does the amount of time change given the day of the week, month or year? Of course not! Time is a constant with:

60 seconds in every minutes 60 minutes in every hour 24 hours in every day 7 days in every week So how can you manage time? You can’t. Plain and simple. But, what you can do is learn to how to better manage yourself. Of course, you may be thinking that is much harder. Well, it just might be. However, until you attack the real problem, self-management, then you are setting yourself up for ongoing failure when you attempt to solve the symptom of time management.

Self-management begins with understanding your own purpose, vision and values. When you have these clearly articulated, your decision making process becomes far easier and takes, (Guess What ?), less time.

Then learn a proven goal setting and goal achievement process. Unfortunately, most people must set and achieve goals each and every day, but very few ever have experienced a consistent and reproducible goal achievement process.

If you want to get your time management under control, first stop believing it is a time management problem. Next, take some time to learn a proven goal setting process.

Consider committing to writing your purpose, vision and values. Then and only then, craft an action plan that looks at both your professional and personal lives. The results will truly surprise you.



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