Fill Our Life by Doing More in Less Time (Nov 1, 2009)
Have you ever wondered where the time has gone? In fact, it has not gone anywhere. Time never stops; as soon as one moment is over, another one begins. The problem is that we have not made full use of it. Fortunately, that is a situation we can change right now.
We can learn to get more done in less time. To realize this, we have to become great at time management skills. No matter how disorganized our life had been in the past, no matter how much we had procrastinated and no matter how much we had majored in the minors, we can master the essential skills required to get more done in less time. We can become one of the most effective, efficient and result-driven people around. With good time management many people have gone from confusion to clarity in achieving their goals and from distraction to total focus on what they are doing. This we can we achieve.
Robin Sharma, an internationally-acclaimed writer and an expert on leadership and personality development, says, “Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again. Those who use time wisely are rewarded with rich, productive and satisfying lives.”
Psychologists generally agree that sense of control is the key to feeling of confidence, power and personal well-being. For us to break the upper limits of our capabilities and achieve all we want in life, we must simply get more done in less time.
If a successful life were a coin, on the front side of it would be our ability to set clear, specific and worthy goals for ourselves. On the flipside of the same coin would be our ability to get ourselves sufficiently motivated and organized to work on our top-priority tasks all day long. We are where we are and what we are precisely because of the choices and decisions that we have made up to this point in our life. Our best thinking gets us right where we are today, nothing more, nothing less.
Most importantly, do not waste another minute regretting at all the time we had wasted in the past. Resolve, at this moment, to put the time we now have to meaningful and rewarding use. Fill our time with actions, love, meaning, purpose, richness and life. To get more done in less time, we must be absolutely clear and specific as to our desired outcome. We will begin to master our time as soon as we begin to focus all our energy on our top priorities, tasks and goals and reduce or eliminate the time we spend on low- value activities that contribute little value to our life.
Most people do not know where they are going and how to get there. They do not have written goals. They have had no idea on what they want to accomplish in life. We must be specific and clear about our goals and objectives in life and focus all our energy on them. Many people try to do too many things but never really become great at anything; they are “jack of all trades but master of none”. Alas, many people who have developed a clear objective often lose sight of it because they are easily side-tracked. As Zig Ziglar says, “most people are wandering generalities rather than meaningful specifics.”
The fact is that most people do not manage their time well. However, in life, we can only accomplish more in less time by being self-disciplined. We can get more done in less time with proper planning and by making better choices and decisions that will enhance the quality of our life.
I normally like to make a to-do list, listing down all the tasks and activities to be accomplished. This to-do list becomes my basic tool for personal management and it is the key to getting more done in less time. It is essential to have a list of long-term, medium-term and short-term goals. I do daily, weekly and monthly plan in advance and list out every step for each task that we want to complete, and finally organize that list in sequence of priority. I usually start my planning on Sunday before the work week begins, and it is always on the night before a new day starts.
Mr. Wilson Lim, my mentor from Taiwan, says that when we make a list of all the activities we must do the following day, our sub-conscious mind will have the opportunity to work on that list all night long while we are sleeping. When we wake up in the morning we will awaken with great ideas, awareness and insights which will facilitate the accomplishment of the tasks on our list. By doing this, we will activate the so called Law of attraction; we will attract into our life the right people, opportunities and resources that we need to accomplish our tasks that are crucial in achieving our goals in the most efficient and effective way.
Based on researches done, less than 3% of people have clear, concise and written goals and they are usually the most successful people in their respective fields. Less than 2% of people rewrite and review their goals on a regular basis- usually at the end of the year. Highly successful people are not necessarily more intelligent than ordinary people. The great difference is that successful people spend their time on high value result-driven activities and unsuccessful people are always working on tasks or spending time on activities of little or no value at all.
In life, it is good and wise to always remember that we can either work to accomplish our own goals or we can work to help accomplish the goals of someone else. A good example is when we are working for others, we help them achieve their goals and at the same time we also achieve our own goals.
The things that matter most must never be at the mercy of the things that matter least. One of the best single words in getting more done in less time is the word NO. Say “No” to any request for our time that will not utilize our time most productively or meaningfully. The numbers of hours in a day is fixed, but the quantity and quality of work done every hour vary. Time is our most precious resource. We are solely responsible for the time we have. The more quality time we have, the more empowered and productive we become. Do not waste our time on trivial matters.
In order to enrich our lives by doing more in less time, we must learn to commit ourselves to becoming better and better at the few tasks that we do that account for most of our results. We can learn to delegate, outsource, and eliminate all those tasks and activities that contribute very little to our results and rewards. The key to high productivity and performance is the sensation of enthusiasm and heightened self-esteem that we experience each time we complete a significant task. This will energize and make us stronger and motivate us to move forward and achieve more in less time!
We can learn to get more done in less time. To realize this, we have to become great at time management skills. No matter how disorganized our life had been in the past, no matter how much we had procrastinated and no matter how much we had majored in the minors, we can master the essential skills required to get more done in less time. We can become one of the most effective, efficient and result-driven people around. With good time management many people have gone from confusion to clarity in achieving their goals and from distraction to total focus on what they are doing. This we can we achieve.
Robin Sharma, an internationally-acclaimed writer and an expert on leadership and personality development, says, “Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again. Those who use time wisely are rewarded with rich, productive and satisfying lives.”
Psychologists generally agree that sense of control is the key to feeling of confidence, power and personal well-being. For us to break the upper limits of our capabilities and achieve all we want in life, we must simply get more done in less time.
If a successful life were a coin, on the front side of it would be our ability to set clear, specific and worthy goals for ourselves. On the flipside of the same coin would be our ability to get ourselves sufficiently motivated and organized to work on our top-priority tasks all day long. We are where we are and what we are precisely because of the choices and decisions that we have made up to this point in our life. Our best thinking gets us right where we are today, nothing more, nothing less.
Most importantly, do not waste another minute regretting at all the time we had wasted in the past. Resolve, at this moment, to put the time we now have to meaningful and rewarding use. Fill our time with actions, love, meaning, purpose, richness and life. To get more done in less time, we must be absolutely clear and specific as to our desired outcome. We will begin to master our time as soon as we begin to focus all our energy on our top priorities, tasks and goals and reduce or eliminate the time we spend on low- value activities that contribute little value to our life.
Most people do not know where they are going and how to get there. They do not have written goals. They have had no idea on what they want to accomplish in life. We must be specific and clear about our goals and objectives in life and focus all our energy on them. Many people try to do too many things but never really become great at anything; they are “jack of all trades but master of none”. Alas, many people who have developed a clear objective often lose sight of it because they are easily side-tracked. As Zig Ziglar says, “most people are wandering generalities rather than meaningful specifics.”
The fact is that most people do not manage their time well. However, in life, we can only accomplish more in less time by being self-disciplined. We can get more done in less time with proper planning and by making better choices and decisions that will enhance the quality of our life.
I normally like to make a to-do list, listing down all the tasks and activities to be accomplished. This to-do list becomes my basic tool for personal management and it is the key to getting more done in less time. It is essential to have a list of long-term, medium-term and short-term goals. I do daily, weekly and monthly plan in advance and list out every step for each task that we want to complete, and finally organize that list in sequence of priority. I usually start my planning on Sunday before the work week begins, and it is always on the night before a new day starts.
Mr. Wilson Lim, my mentor from Taiwan, says that when we make a list of all the activities we must do the following day, our sub-conscious mind will have the opportunity to work on that list all night long while we are sleeping. When we wake up in the morning we will awaken with great ideas, awareness and insights which will facilitate the accomplishment of the tasks on our list. By doing this, we will activate the so called Law of attraction; we will attract into our life the right people, opportunities and resources that we need to accomplish our tasks that are crucial in achieving our goals in the most efficient and effective way.
Based on researches done, less than 3% of people have clear, concise and written goals and they are usually the most successful people in their respective fields. Less than 2% of people rewrite and review their goals on a regular basis- usually at the end of the year. Highly successful people are not necessarily more intelligent than ordinary people. The great difference is that successful people spend their time on high value result-driven activities and unsuccessful people are always working on tasks or spending time on activities of little or no value at all.
In life, it is good and wise to always remember that we can either work to accomplish our own goals or we can work to help accomplish the goals of someone else. A good example is when we are working for others, we help them achieve their goals and at the same time we also achieve our own goals.
The things that matter most must never be at the mercy of the things that matter least. One of the best single words in getting more done in less time is the word NO. Say “No” to any request for our time that will not utilize our time most productively or meaningfully. The numbers of hours in a day is fixed, but the quantity and quality of work done every hour vary. Time is our most precious resource. We are solely responsible for the time we have. The more quality time we have, the more empowered and productive we become. Do not waste our time on trivial matters.
In order to enrich our lives by doing more in less time, we must learn to commit ourselves to becoming better and better at the few tasks that we do that account for most of our results. We can learn to delegate, outsource, and eliminate all those tasks and activities that contribute very little to our results and rewards. The key to high productivity and performance is the sensation of enthusiasm and heightened self-esteem that we experience each time we complete a significant task. This will energize and make us stronger and motivate us to move forward and achieve more in less time!
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