The Anti Time-Management Approach to Time Management
Ten Top Tips to Save you Time and Stress
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the
same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller,
Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas
Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.,
writer
The Anti Time Management Approach to Time Management is not
about neat tricks for organising your filing. It's much bigger
than that - if you want to be more effective in the way you use
your time, then you're probably going to have to shift some
attitude. And that's what this tip sheet is about.
1. The first thing you need to do is recognise and accept that
there's no such thing as time management. You can't manage time
- it just is. Since you began reading this tip sheet time has
moved on and there has been nothing you can do about it. You
have exactly as much time as everyone else. If the people
mentioned in the quotation at the start don't inspire you, think
of your own names - maybe Beckham, maybe Ellen Macarthur. Their
days are no longer or shorter than yours. Stop blaming time,
stop wishing for more time - while you're doing that all you're
doing is wasting time.
2. Next you need to identify the real source of the problem. And
if it isn't time, it can't be time management. So it must be
self-management. That's right, the real source of your time
management problem is not time, but you - or to be more
specific, the way you manage your major resource in life:
yourself. If you aren't getting enough done or if you keep
having to miss out on enjoyable things because you 'don't have
time' you need to recognise that nothing will change until you
take responsibility for the way you organise yourself. Are you
taking on too much, are you failing to plan or to prioritise?
Check yourself out.
3. So you need to do an audit. Imagine you had a bank account
that was credited with