No Time For Time Management

Last month, I was traveling and saw this article on time management in a magazine. As I glanced over the article, I noticed the thing was five pages long. Shouldn’t tips for people who are trying to save time be summarized? Damn!

So being the devoted business traveler of this particular airline, I kept the magazine and eventually, when I had time, I read it. Later that day, I did a search on the web for “time management tips” and discovered there was more written about this subject than all of you subscribers together could read in a life time. There were over 116,000,000 results in 0.13 seconds. Apparently, this topic is hot! Everyone has an interest in time management. In the interest of time, I will keep this article to just short.

Anyway, some of the basics seem to be keeping yourself healthy, know when to say “no”, planning your day, multi-task when possible. Look, these are great concepts. Many of us work a few days a week in an attempt to take care of our bodies and we get sick anyway. We have trouble saying “no” to our friends, family and employer. It’s just that way.

When I was working as a SWAT team member and helping raise my two children, I was lucky if I slept six hours.

I just read on someone’s blog, time and money are resources and they are both limited and measurable.

Not everything related to time can be measured. How long does it take to get through to a loss mitigator? How long does it take to get a homeowner to deed you a house. How long does it take to get the BPO agent to give you that magic number?

Time can be relative though. When I’m hanging out with friends, at a NASCAR track watching a race or playing video games with kids, time flies by. Sitting through my divorce proceeding, time dragged on and on.

The benefit to trying to manage time derives itself from giving ourselves an opportunity to see how we use our days. Often tips for experts can and will be useful in sorting out what’s important to us and what’s not.

Remember, there is after all, a limit to the number of days we are each allotted.

My father, during church would always say, “We are all given one more day to get it right.” Are you spending your time wisely?