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7 Ways to Lead With Your Time Instead of Time Management

Guest post by: Enrico Varella

Article Overview: I have been intrigued and excited by the many executives I have met over the years who seem to use their time well. The ones that amaze me most are those who can fulfill more results in each day. It is not that they have more time (24 hours is maximum), but how they utilize each packet of time.

7 Ways to Lead With Your Time Instead of Time Management

Stop wasting time with time management workshops! There are ways to spend your time wisely. Seriously, time cannot be saved, stored or retrieved although our language describes it as ‘save time’, ‘invest in the time’, ‘make time’ and ‘buy time’. Instead, we ‘kill time’, ‘pass time’, have ‘time-out’ and ‘lose time’.

I have been intrigued and excited by the many executives I have met over the years who seem to use their time well. The ones that amaze me most are those who can fulfill more results in each day. It is not that they have more time (24 hours is maximum), but how they utilize each packet of time. Time can be measured in discrete quantities from seconds (beating a personal best time in sports) to minutes (length of an interval training set), to hours (total time spent weekly preparing for a marathon). Writing a proposal or preparing for a business presentation may take a few days (so does completing ultra-endurances like the Quadruple Ironman or Deca-Ironman). An Ironman triathlon is a 226K race comprising 3.8K of swimming, 180K or riding, and a full marathon after that.

We can model the good practices of these time-travelers:

1) Make a daily and weekly list, and refer to it occasionally. may your goals clear and important.

2) Tick away as quickly as you complete the tasks you aim to accomplish.

3) Challenge yourself to do more, without exhausting yourself.

4) Check for signs of burnout. Stop when you feel unusually tired.

5) Attain an active balance of the physical-mental-emotional, with our personal and professional lives.

6) Be decisive on how you use your time. Hesitation builds delay, and consumes time gradually.

7) Have productive conversations. If you aren’t enjoying it, you are wasting somebody’s time.

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