12. TIME MANAGEMENT TUTORIAL
CORE POSITIVE IMMERSION ABSTRACTS
[1] TIME MANAGEMENT FROM THE INSIDE OUT ---
THE FOOLPROOF SYSTEM FOR TAKING CONTROL
OF YOUR SCHEDULE --- AND YOUR LIFE
Book Source: (Time Management from the Inside Out)
[2] 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)
[3] SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL LIBRARIANS
THE SEVEN HABITS:
HABIT 1 = Be Proactive (principles of personal vision)
HABIT 2 = Begin with the End in Mind (principles of personal leadership)
HABIT 3 = Put First Things First (principles of personal management)
Becoming a "Quadrant II Self-Manager" where people are more important than things!
It defines your unique mission including values and long-term goals. It helps you
balance your life by identifying roles. It gives you greater context through weekly organizing. The
Quadrant II paradigm management philosophy uses 4th generation advances including being
principle-centered and conscience-directed and applies it to self-management of others through
delegation.
The value is not in any extrinsic technique or tool, but in seeing through the "intrinsic lens"
of importance rather than urgency!
HABIT 4 = Think Win/Win (principles of interpersonal leadership; 4 dimensions of
win/win = character, relationships, agreements, supportive systems and processes; win/win
management training; win/win performance agreements, win/win systems, win/win processes)
HABIT 5 = Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood (principles of empathic
communication; character, empathic listening, diagnose before you prescribe, understanding and
perception, seek first to understood --- then to be understand)
HABIT 6 = Synergize (principles of creative cooperation; levels of communication--high
and low trust & high and low cooperation; diagram page 270)
HABIT 7 = Sharpen the Saw (4 principles of balanced self-renewal; physical,
social/emotional, spiritual, mental)
Book Source: (The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People)
[4] SUCCESS STRATEGIES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS
Book Source: (Success Strategies for African-Americans)
[5] 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 socially. 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!
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)
[6] FINDING TIME TO DO IT RIGHT!
Book Source: (If You Haven't Got the Time to Do It Right)
[7] ABOLISHING PERFORMANCE APPRAISALS ---
WHY THEY BACKFIRE AND WHAT TO DO INSTEAD
Book Source: (Abolishing Performance Appraisals)
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