feature · July 2010
Winning the Relentless Competition Against the Clock
Everyone has about 24 hours a day from which to carve out his or her life, so what’s the difference? It can only be a result of what they do with the time they have, how they “spend” their day.
Everyone has about 24 hours a day from which to carve out his or her life, so what’s the difference? It can only be a result of what they do with the time they have, how they “spend” their day.
Two things are essential: the will to make a change and the skill to become smarter about the use of your time.
Becoming more effective with your time is really quite simple it’s realizing that your ability to cause something to occur, from the inception to the completion of a task to the realization of your dreams, can only happen at this moment in time.
You spend one fifteen-minute block after another, from the beginning to the end of your day. The question is, how are you spending them?
Learn from your last fifteen-minute block. And if you stop to regret how you spent your last block, wishing you’d done it differently, you are only wasting the next block of time. So, don’t spend any time regretting mistakes, move on! It’s over! Next!
Gaining just fifteen minutes each day can be very powerful. In fact, over the course of a year, you would gain an extra ninety-one hours. That’s over two working weeks!