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