Time Lessons
I’ve discovered the way to survive, feel productive and enjoy a short holiday week is to take some things off of my plate and be wary of adding new things.
It’s not always easy to dance to the beat of my own drum, though. I have to be discriminating in which projects to let go of for now and which ones to eliminate completely. I have to determine which conversations to shorten or decide whether to postpone a pre-arranged goal to take a call and connect with someone rather than rush a call.
Some of this is knowing that I won’t beat myself up at the end of each day for not completing everything I started and trusting that I will followup at my earliest opportunity with those things I have decided to finish.
Tags: prioritizing, taking things off your plate, time lessons, Time Management
June 1st, 2007 at 4:52 pm
I sometimes set impractical goals, like exercising everyday. It gets me to do it, but then I forgot the real reason I set “everyday” was so that I wouldn’t feel bad if I ended up skipping one day a week (instead of setting only three days and missing one or two where I would really feel bad). As long as I can view my goals in a practical, time-achieveable way, with all the distractions, etc.,, I don’t “beat myself up” with what I don’t accomplish and feel more pleasure from what I do. (submitted verbally and typed in by CAW)