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    [1] TIME MANAGEMENT AND LIFE PLANNING = Concentrating on empirical scientific factual ideas about the human brain and human life can provide the best answers to life's ultimate questions through the prism of TIME:

    Book Source: (Time Paradox ---
    The New Psychology of Time that will Change Your Life)


[2] TIME MANAGEMENT FROM THE INSIDE OUT ---
THE FOOLPROOF SYSTEM FOR TAKING CONTROL
OF YOUR SCHEDULE --- AND YOUR LIFE
    Thinking of "time management" as "energy management" for controlling your goals and life!
Book Source: (Time Management from the Inside Out)


[3] GET OUT OF THE TIME TRAP
BY GETTING MORE DONE IN LESS TIME!
    The real reason behind our "time troubles" is human nature and the difficulty of learning new habits.

    People have to learn how to "use" time!

    Typical TIME WASTERS are:

      (1) Attempting too much at once
      (2) Procrastinating
      (3) Doing it yourself --- that is, not delegating
      (4) Not saying no
      (5) Personal disorganization --- cluttered desk

    Time management in the year 2000 and beyond --- Still trapped after all these years?

      (1) Why is "Time Management" still a problem?

      (2) New perspectives --- the real purpose of time management!

        1. Less stress through time control

        2. Balance between work and personal life

        3. Personal productivity --- "Productivity" = "Output + Input"

        4. Success in achieving goals --- Setting goals will give you more time

        5. The REAL PURPOSE of time management:

          Time management is about WHAT you can accomplish with more time and HOW you can be more successful in achieving your goals!

          YOU are usually the "problem," not someone else!

          It means doing the hard work of changing well-established habits!

      (3) Planning puts you in control

      (4) Making changes --- start where you are

    Book Source: (The Time Trap)


    [4] WHEREVER YOU GO, THERE YOU ARE ---
    MINDFULNESS MEDITATIONIN EVERYDAY LIFE

      In every moment of our lives, all we really have to work with is each moment. In every moment, we find ourselves at the crossroad of "here and now." This is the time we can contact the deepest in ourselves and it affords us our greatest opportunities for creativity, learning, and growing.

      Not knowing that you have more opportunities and possibilities than the ordinary routines and habits in your life is what the Buddhists call "ignorance" or "mindlessness." But being in touch with this "not knowing" aspect of your life is called "mindfulness." The activity of waking up from the dreams or trances of ordinary routines is the purpose of meditation, which is the systematic cultivation of wakefulness or present-moment awareness.

      This waking up is consistent with what we might call wisdom. It is seeing more deeply into cause and effect relationships and the interconnectedness of things. Then we are no longer caught in a false or limiting "dream-dictated" reality of our own creation. To find our way out of this trap, we have to pay more attention to each moment. It is the only time that we have to live, grow, feel, and change!

      Mindfulness meditation is not some weird cryptic activity, as our popular culture often describes it. Instead, it involves becoming some kind of zombie, vegetable, self-absorbed narcissist, navel gazzer, cultist, mystic, or Eastern philosopher. Mindfulness meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing something about who you are. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether you like it or not. The path that is your life. Mindfulness can help you see that your path has a direction that is always unfolding, moment by moment. It is the realization that what happens now, in this moment, influences what happens next in your life.

      Mindfulness has to do above all with attention and awareness, which are universal human qualities. But in our society, we tend to take these capacities for granted and don't think to develop them systematically in the service of self-understanding and wisdom. It is the process by which we go about deepening our attention and awareness, refining them, and putting them to greater pracdtical use in our lives.

    Book Source: (Wherever You Go, There You Are)


[5] FINDING THE TIME TO DO IT RIGHT?
    Don't put it off --- how to lick the procrastination habit, which is usually based on "fear of failure," which is tied to "striving for perfection," which becomes a "self-fulfilling prophecy," which leads to guilt because you know you could have done a better job --- if only you had not waited until the last minute!

      1] Questions to determine degree of procrastination:

        (1) Do you have a tendency to leave your unpleasant projects until the last minute?

        (2) Do you hope that if you put off tackling some problem, it will just go away, or somebody else will solve it?

        (3) Have you ever thought to yourself that you could do a better job if you had more time?

        (4) When you fail to get a job done on time, do you blame someone else?

        (5) Do you overload yourself with work, then complain that there is too much to do?

        (6) Are you running out of excuses and alibis to explain why your projects are not getting done on time?

      [2] Techniques to overcome procrastination:

        (1) Bore yourself to death

        (2) Don't be tripped up by trivia

        (3) Give yourself a reward

        (4) If a carrot doe not work, try a stick --- Ask yourself: "What will happen if you never do it?" Let your imagination wander. "What is the worst possible consequence?" This kind of guilt and doomsday thinking can help you put things in their proper perspective. Remember, if the important things don't get done well, bad things could --- and usually do --- happen!

      These tips can help put you in the right frame of mind to tackle and complete any "important" project since procrastination is a habit that can be broken.

      [3] Think before you act!

      Book Source: (If You Haven't Got theTime to Do It Right,
      When Will You Find the Time to Do It Over?)


    [6] FINDING "FLOW" BY MEASURING YOUR TIME!

      You can learn the joy of complete "engagement" by learning the "tools" of life-change. These seemingly simple "lessons" in life-change are really profound concepts based upon the author's life-long commitment to the study of "flow."

      ASSUMPTION --- You often spend your days unaware and out of touch with your own "emotional" life!

        [1] Your "choice" is simple --- between now and your inevitable death, you can choose either "to live" or "to die!" Experiencing "flow" or intense involvement with the issues in your life depends upon your choice to really "live." That is, "flow" is the positive feelings you have when you CHOOSE to seek and to LIVE a fully "engaged" --- excellent life!

        [2] You cannot expect that anyone will help you "to live." You must discover how to do it yourself! In this context, "to live" does not refer simply to biological survival, but it means that you choose "to live in fullness," without waste of time and potential, expressing your uniqueness, yet participating intimately in the complexity of the cosmos!

        [3] What can make your life "serene, useful and worth living?"

      CONCLUSION --- The only path to finding out what "life" is all about is a patient, slow attempt to make sense of the realities of the past and the possibilities of the future as they can be understood in the present!

      Thus, "to live" means to experience --- through doing, feeling, thinking. Since experience takes place in "time," time is the ultimate "scarce resource" you have!

      Even though "time is money," money gets its value from time, since money is simply the most generally used counter for measuring the time invested in doing or making something. And you value money because to a certain extent it liberates you from the constraints of life by making it possible to have "free time" to do in it what you want to do!

      Everyday "LIFE" is defined not only by what you do, but also by who you are with. Since Aristotle, it has been known that humans are "social animals" --- both physically and culturally! And cultures differ in terms of how much a person is influenced by others, or by the internalized opinion of others when they are alone. In other words, no matter how individualistic a culture is, other people still determine to a large extent the quality of person's life.

      This is true of your life, too!BR>
      And everything you do is ultimately not aimed at experiencing "health, wealth or fame" but HAPPINESS since it is desired for its own sake.

      Learning to manage your goals is an important step in achieving excellence in everyday life.

      When what you feel, what you wish, and what you think are in harmony, then you are experiencing "FLOW." The metaphor of "FLOW" is one that has been used many times to describe the sense of "effortless action" by persons that stand out as the "best" in their lives.

      It is the full involvement of FLOW rather than HAPPINESS that makes for excellence in life!

    Book Source: (Finding Flow)


    [7] EAT THAT FROG --- AND STOP PROCRASTINATING!

      Your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to start on that task and get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your ultimate success than any other quality or skill you can develop!

      If you develop the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly, you will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.
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      An old saying is that "If the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long!" Your "FROG" is the one you are most likely to procrastinate on if you don't do something about it now! It is also the one task that can have the greatest positive impact on your life and results at the moment.

      It has also been said that "If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first!" This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first. Discipline yourself to begin immediately and then to persist until the task is complete before you go on to something else.

      You can think of it as a "TEST" or personal challenge. You must resist the temptation to start with the easier task! You must continually remind yourself that one of the most important decisions you make each day is your choice of what you will do immediately and what you will do later --- if you do it at all!

      One final assumption is "If you have to eat a live frog, it does not pay to sit and look at it for a very long time!"

        MAIN IDEA = The key to reaching high levels of performance and productivity is for you to develop the lifelong habit of tackling your major task first thing each morning.

        You must develop the routine of "eating your frog" before you do anything else and without taking too much time to think about it!

        Successful, effective people are those who launch directly into their major tasks and then discipline themselves to work steadily and single-mindedly until those tasks are complete.

        In the business world, you are paid and promoted for getting specific, measurable results. You are paid for making a valuable contribution that is expected of you. But many employees confuse activity with accomplishment and this causes one of the biggest problems in organizations today, which is failure to execute!

      1) Set the table

        RULE 1 --- Think on paper!

        Step 1 = Decide exactly what you want

        RULE 2 --- One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not be done at all!

        Step 2 = Write it down!

        Step 3 = Set a deadline on your goal

        Step 4 = Make a practical nursing plan

        Step 6 = Take action on your plan immediately!

        Step 7 = Resolve to do something every single day that moves you toward your major goal

        Clear written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They can motivate you and galvanize you into action. They can stimulate your creativity and release your energy. They can help you overcome procrastination as much as any other factor. Think about your goals and review them daily. Every morning when you begin, take action on the most important task you can accomplish to achieve your most important goal at the moment.

        Once you start moving, keep moving! Don't stop. This decision, this discipline alone, can make you one of the most productive and successful people of your generation!

      2) Plan every day in advance

        ACTION EXERCISE = Begin today to plan every day, week, and month in advance. Take a notepad or sheet of paper and make a list of everything you have to do in the next 24 hours.

      3) Apply the 80/20 Rule to everything --- "We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright! Goethe quote

        RULE = Resist the temptation to clear up small things first!

        Time management is really "life management" or personal management. It is really taking control of the sequence of events in your life. You are always "free to choose" the task that you will do next! Your ability to choose between the important and the unimportant is the key determinant of your success in life and work!

      4) Consider the consequences

        RULE = Long-term thinking improves short-term decision making!

        RULE = Future intent influences and often determines present actions!

        ACTION EXERCISE = Review your list of tasks, activities, and projects regularly and ask yourself: "Which one project or activity, if you did it in an excellent and timely fashion, would have the greatest positive impact on your life?"

      5) Continually practice the powerful "ABCDE Method" or "priority-setting technique" that you can use every single day! The power of this technique lies in its simplicity. Start with a list of everything you have to do for the coming day.

      6) Think on paper by placing an A, B, C, D, or E before each item on your list --- BEFORE YOU BEGIN THE FIRST TASK!

        RULE = Your weakest "key result area" sets the "height" at which you can use all your other skills and abilities.

        ACTION EXERCISE = Identify the key result areas of your work. What are they? Write down the key results you have to achieve to do your job in an excellent fashion.

      7) Obey the law of forced efficiency

        LAW OF FORCED EFFICIENCY = There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing!

        RULE = There will never be enough time to do everything you have to do.

        ACTION EXERCISE = Your most powerful thinking tool for success is your ability to discriminate between one priority and another. By taking a few minutes each day to sit quietly and think about your work and activities, you can get wonderful ideas and insights!

      8) Prepare thoroughly before you begin

        ACTION EXERCISE =

      9) Do your homework

        RULE = Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.

        ACTION EXERCISE = Resolve today to become a "do-it-yourself" project! Learn the key skills and core competencies that you will need to have in the future to lead your field. Whatever they are, set a goal, make a plan, and begin to develop and increase your ability in those areas. Resolve to be the very best at what you do!

      10) Leverage your special talents

        ACTION EXERCISE = Continually ask yourself these key questions. What are you really good at? What do you enjoy most about your work? What was most responsible for your past success? If you could do any job at all, what would it be? Whatever your answers, get started today!

      11) Identify your key constraints

        Successful people always begin the analysis of constraints by asking the question, "What is it in you that is holding you back?" They accept complete responsibility and look to themselves for both the cause and the cure of their problems.

        ACTION EXERCISE = Identify your most important goal in life today. What is it? What one goal, if you achieved it, would have the greatest positive effect on your life? What one career accomplishment would have the greatest positive impact on your work life? Also, Why have you not accomplished the goal by now? What is it in yourself that is holding you back? Whatever your answers, take action immediately. Do something! Do anything! Get started!

      12) Take it one oil barrel at at time

        ACTION EXERCISE = Select any goal, task, or project in your life where you have been procrastinating and take just one step toward accomplishing it immediately. Sometimes, all you need to do to get started is to sit down and make a list of all the steps you will need to take to eventually complete the task. Just start and complete one item on the list, and then one more, and so on. You will be amazed at what you will eventually accomplish!

      13) Put the pressure on yourself

        ACTION EXERCISE = Set deadlines and subdeadlines on every task and activity. Create your own "forcing system" by raising the bar on yourself. Once you have set yourself a deadline, stick to it and even try to beat it! Write out every step of a major job or project before you begin. Then determine how many minutes and hours it will require to accomplish each phase. Organize your daily and weekly calendars to create time segments when you work exclusively on these tasks.

      14) Maximize your personal powers

        ACTION EXERCISE = Make an analysis of your current energy levels and your daily health habits. Resolve today to improve your levels of health and energy by asking the following questions:

        [1] What are you doing physically that you should do more of?

        [2] What are you doing that you should do less of?

        [3] What are you doing that you should START DOING --- if you want to perform at your best?

        What are you doing today that affects your health that you should STOP DOING altogether?

        Whatever your answers are to these questions, TAKE ACTIONS TODAY!

      15) Motivate yourself into action

        ACTION EXERCISE =

      16) Practice creative procrastination

        RULE = You can get your time and your life under control only to the degree to which you dicontinue lower value activities!

        One of the most powerful of all words in time management is the word "NO!" You can say "NO" to anything that is not a high-value use of your time and your life!

        ACTION EXERCISE = Practice "zero-based thinking" in every part of your life. Ask yourself continually, 'If you were not doing this already, knowing what you now know, would you get into it again today? Examine eacy of your personal and work activities and evaluate it based on your situation today. If it is something you would not start up again today, knowing what you now know, it is a prime candidate for abandonment or creative procrastination.

      17) Do the most difficult task first

        ACTION EXERCISE = See yourself as a "work in progress!"

      18) Slice and dice the task --- how to "swiss cheese" and "salami slice" your big work tasks for a specific time period.

        ACTION EXERCISE = Happy, successful people are action oriented and they take on large, complex, multitask jobs.

      19) Create large chunks of time to concentrate on specific goals or projects

        ACTION EXERCISE = Make every minute count! Think continually of different ways that you can save, schedule, and consolidate large chunks of time. Use this chunk of time to work on important tasks with the most significant long-term consequences. Most of all, keep focused on the most important results for which you are responsible!

      20) Develop a sense of urgency

        ACTION EXERCISE = Resolve today to develop a sense of urgency in everything you do. Select one area where you have a tendency to procrastinate and make a decision to develop the habit of "fast action" in that area. Take action immediately when you see an opportunity or a problem. When you are given a task or responsibility, do it quickly and report back fast. You will be amazed at how much better you will feeel and how much more you will get done!

      21) Single handle every task --- Every bit of planning, prioritizing, and organizing comes down to this simple concept.

        The key to high levels of performance and personal productivity is the ability to select your most important task, to begin it, and then to concentrate on it single-mindedly until it is complete!

        ACTION EXERCISE = Take action! Resolve today to select the most important task or project that you could complete and then launch into it immediately.

      CONCLUSION --- Putting it all together

        The key to happiness, satisfaction, great success, and a wonderful feeling of personal power and effectiveness is for you to develop the habit of eating your frog first thing every day when you start work!

        Fortunately, this is a "learnable skill" that you can acquire through repetition.

        When this habit of starting on your most important task first is developed, your success will be assured!

        Get more things done faster by learning the 21 rules and principles until they are ingrained in your thinking and actions.

      Book Source: (Eat That Frog --- 21 Great Ways to Stop
      Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time)
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