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Written by: Swarup Dutta

Article Overview: So you want to learn more about time management? Sorry. You’re in the wrong place! Success-Centered Time Management, a concept I've created and taught since 1982 (over half of my life!) in over 25 different countries around the world. SUCCESS-CENTERED TIME MANAGEMENT VERSUS TIME MANAGEMENT So what exactly is the difference between Success-Centered Time Management and traditional time management? The best way to see this difference is by walking you through a couple of questions.

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SUCCESS-CENTERED TIME MANAGEMENT VERSUS TIME MANAGEMENT

So what exactly is the difference between Success-Centered Time Management and traditional time management? The best way to see this difference is by walking you through a couple of questions.

First, do you think your life would benefit both at work and home if you were more organized in your time?

That's the focus of time management. Not bad. IF you organize the right things and consistently act on your plans.

Now, do you think your life would benefit much greater if you concentrated your improvement on your behaviors, your motivation and your focus within the time you have and then assisted that with a few organizational skills?

That's the unique and very powerful focus of Success-Centered Time Management – your behaviors being the key!

You see, over the last 18 years of research, testing and teaching I've come to the conclusion that - TIME MANAGEMENT DOES NOT WORK!

I've discovered in my studies around the world that 80 to 90 percent of us when taught time management by traditional methods fall right back to old habits and behaviors within one month. In other words, when we're taught a tool to save us time such as how to use a "to do" list or a day planner, and even when we're convinced that this new tool will save us time at work and home, and further even when we're motivated by a sharp trainer, most of us will find an excuse NOT to use this beneficial tool within just a few weeks. The second and third excuses come much easier, until we're in a snowball of dominating habits and behaviors!

Has this ever happened to you?

I discovered, quite accidentally, that the so-called "lucky" 10 to 20 percent of people that were finding success with time management tools had a common background. All had some basis or education in skills that focused on their habits and behaviors within the realm of time. By chance when I was 14 years old I began to build a passion for studying these foundational skills. It took an NBA player who co-authored a memorization book to spark this destiny. Through following years of study, practice and testing I improved this skill set and its combination with traditional time management skills. This was the birth of Success-Centered Time Management.




For almost two decades I’ve taught Success-Centered Time Management to hundreds of thousands of people around the world through an ever-improving program set called Time Control. Time Control's motto is simply:

Gain control of yourself,
And you can fully control your time.
Control your time,
And you control your destiny. (SM)

Time Control focuses on building a solid foundation in the critical behavioral skills needed to conquer time - in other words, building a base to finally conquer your time-stealing habits (Gain control of yourself)! The program then mixes in the most effective and simple-to-use time management skills I’ve found in my almost twenty years of experience (And you can fully control your time). This combination of focusing FIRST on behavioral-based success skills THEN mixing effective and simple time management skills gives Time Control students control of their destiny (And you control your destiny).

I define your destiny as the chain reaction of consistent thoughts and actions that take your life in a particular direction. It's simply the summation of what you think and do on a daily basis over time. I feel our destiny is less of a destination and more of a direction and that we have absolute control over the direction we are pointing our lives!

Where do you want your life to point?
Is it currently pointing in that direction?
What are you doing now to shift your life and your time in that direction?

From my experience and study, I have found that there are only three categories to gain more time in your day:

1) Reduce Distractions and Time Wasters
2) Improve Action Systems
3) Increase Human Performance

Reducing Distractions and Time Wasters is fairly obvious. In this category as you remove or reduce things in your life that "steal" time and do not take you toward your goals and priorities, you increase the total amount of productive time available to you. Most of us can usually gain one to four hours a day by improving in this category!

Examples of Reducing Distractions and Time Wasters include reducing telephone and personal interruptions, controlling socializing, reducing procrastination, streamlining or eliminating wasteful meetings, controlling the television and time surfing the net, and reducing paperwork. Gaining clarity and focus and setting and frequently reviewing goals can immensely help in this category. Clarity and goals build blinders to severely restrict distractions from pulling you from your destiny!

Your next chapter will be published shortly. Why not learn more about Time Control at www.timemanagementinc.com and read more about its Author,Vince Panella.

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