“Life is difficult,” is the opening line from the book The Road Less Travelled by Scott M Peck. What he goes on to say is that once you know life is difficult, it no longer seems to be difficult. I think it’s a great opening line; it made me stop and think, the first three words of this book stopped me in my tracks!
When we acknowledge that things are tough, are we suddenly better able to manage them?
There are times in our lives when everything just seems to be effortless, I call it being ‘in flow’ and there are other times when life can feel like a continual uphill struggle, when everything is difficult.
I believe we need to experience the struggle and pain; these are the times of real growth in us. However it also benefits us to recognise when we are in the opposite place, when everything feels easy, so we appreciate and are grateful for how things ‘flow’ as it all falls into place.
One thing is certain, things keep moving and changing, time stops for nothing and no-one and often we are continually battling change, resisting time passing. And since change happens and is outside of our control, we humans focus on time as something we can control; or rather we control our behaviour relating to time.
Some people get bored as they watch the hands of the clock slowly move round and others feel they are on an out of control treadmill, continually trying to keep up. Our experience of this concept we call time is often vastly different at different times of the day, and depends entirely on how we feel and what we are doing and who’s doing it with us.
And people want to get the most out of their time, especially employers and busy people and so came the notion of time management, the mysterious art of managing time.
I often tell my clients that time has been managing itself perfectly well long before we arrived on the planet and no matter what we do, that is not going to change. So the concept of time management for me is more about managing yourself and your activities within the concept of time.
Unlike money, we all wake up with the same amount of hours in a day, there’s no bank we can put left over hours and minutes into to save for a short on time day.
So how does someone like Richard Branson, Ed Sheeran or Bill Gates manage to achieve so much in a day?
For one, they don’t do it all themselves. They use the powerful art of delegation, planning and teamwork to get results through the efforts of others.
Our biggest challenge is not around our ability to manage time, rather it’s our ability to manage our thoughts. When we plan and organise better, when we prioritise and let go of what someone else can do, when we ditch the stuff we don’t actually need to do, we free up lots of time.
By turning our thoughts from something we cannot manage, to something we can, our actions become so much more productive, more relaxed, more in flow.
Is there Still a Need for Time Management Courses?
“Life is difficult,” is the opening line from the book The Road Less Travelled by Scott M Peck. What he goes on to say is that once you know life is difficult, it no longer seems to be difficult. I think it’s a great opening line; it made me stop and think, the first three words of this book stopped me in my tracks!
When we acknowledge that things are tough, are we suddenly better able to manage them?
There are times in our lives when everything just seems to be effortless, I call it being ‘in flow’ and there are other times when life can feel like a continual uphill struggle, when everything is difficult.
I believe we need to experience the struggle and pain; these are the times of real growth in us. However it also benefits us to recognise when we are in the opposite place, when everything feels easy, so we appreciate and are grateful for how things ‘flow’ as it all falls into place.
One thing is certain, things keep moving and changing, time stops for nothing and no-one and often we are continually battling change, resisting time passing. And since change happens and is outside of our control, we humans focus on time as something we can control; or rather we control our behaviour relating to time.
Some people get bored as they watch the hands of the clock slowly move round and others feel they are on an out of control treadmill, continually trying to keep up. Our experience of this concept we call time is often vastly different at different times of the day, and depends entirely on how we feel and what we are doing and who’s doing it with us.
And people want to get the most out of their time, especially employers and busy people and so came the notion of time management, the mysterious art of managing time.
I often tell my clients that time has been managing itself perfectly well long before we arrived on the planet and no matter what we do, that is not going to change. So the concept of time management for me is more about managing yourself and your activities within the concept of time.
Unlike money, we all wake up with the same amount of hours in a day, there’s no bank we can put left over hours and minutes into to save for a short on time day.
So how does someone like Richard Branson, Ed Sheeran or Bill Gates manage to achieve so much in a day?
For one, they don’t do it all themselves. They use the powerful art of delegation, planning and teamwork to get results through the efforts of others.
Our biggest challenge is not around our ability to manage time, rather it’s our ability to manage our thoughts. When we plan and organise better, when we prioritise and let go of what someone else can do, when we ditch the stuff we don’t actually need to do, we free up lots of time.
By turning our thoughts from something we cannot manage, to something we can, our actions become so much more productive, more relaxed, more in flow.
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