Here's my daily dilemma: how do I get the 48 tasks I need to accomplish done in the 15 hours that I have? It's a bad math equation that never comes out right. The problem, I think, is that I categorize everything as "urgent" when it really isn't. That's what Stephen Covey says in his bestseller "The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People." The third habit of highly successful people? Put first things first. Here's how.
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She was not speaking very loud , I could hardly hear her and I have good hearing
I read this book in 2000 and made a list of principles as he suggested that autumn. I review it yearly and tweak as need be. Those principles are how I can separate urgency from priority.
You are absolutely right ,Therese,first things first,put sign for those urgent needs,emergency for those things that needs our immediate
attention.My priority is my brain packing with knowledge,information,connection,my most precious time of sleeping is
given away to make room for my social interaction as well as my personal improvement and development,my job came second,my children
and my duty as a mom,well i can juggle while i am busy with my most
important guesting at my home business!I am feeling easy hosting my
good nice friends at the comfort of my home,chuckle with them,exchanging
ideas,making comments,good fighting or arguing with them,good crying
upon each others shoulders right at the comfort of my home!Computers
and friends now a days are easy to connect,just open the windows and
blah,blah with understanding friends,too!no more driving to meet them
anywhere,right Therese?I love the computer age,it is very convenient
economical,and you can actually save more of wrinkles coming out of your face,only a window is open and you can settle.Sooo...first thing
for me,in conclusion is my opening the window and everything else
is being taken care of,without delay,we are never again BIG spenders,a window is a place to be,that is my priority!at least for now.
Being on disability and having ALL my time to myself by NOT working outside the house, I have found "time management" to be VERY difficult. I am a "computer addict," in that I check emails and do survey and mystery shop work over the computer to the point that it's taken over my afternoon-into-nigiht routine. I haven't been OUT at night for ANY reason, mainly because I feel "tied" to the Internet.
However, yesterday, I took a whole afternoon and night to be with a new friend! This was particularly important to me in that I "forgot" for a loooong moment that I even HAD anything else to do. He took my mind off my "work," and put it squarely on how to make ME feel good about myself.
I still had time on the computer after he left, so nothing, in essence, was lost. I will TRY to find more "me" time in the second quadrant, and, hopefully, negotiate time in the third quadrant to be good to myself.
Thank you, Therese, for this very special video; it made me look at how I manage my time, and what I am able to do about it. You are truly a blessing.
Your sister in Christ,
SuzanneWA
Therese, you have done it again helping those of us that are overwhelmed and trying better time management. Most days more so the last couple of days I have been writing "to do lists" I am still working on that list from three days ago. The point that I am trying to make is what you said in the video is that we need to make time for ourselfs as well as prioritizing. Needless to say I am on the list for the third day but what I realized from one of your past videos in that it is ok not to get through it in one day. I use to be a person that had to get it done no matter what on that day, now If if takes me three days to continue checking off then I will do that so that I can make time for myself and family. I have this dilema right now about taking time off to go visit my mom in Florida and forget about aa important task even though my husband has offered to help me in anyway so that I can go visit with her. I took on this responsibility and feel it is up to me to complete. That is what I am stuggling with it is great that my husband will do what ever he can to make my Florida trip happen but I don't know if I should just not do it and go but then I would be failing at a task that I took on. It's not that I don't think my husband can do it, it is just that I took it on but then again they should understand that I need a vacation too. So do I go and not do it or let my husband do it and follow up while in Florida on my laptop.
God bless
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