Episode 19 - Time Management
Time management is all about managing your life right. The fact is that you cannot save time; you can only spend it differently. You can only move your time usage from areas of low value to areas of high value. Herein lies the key to success, and the requirement for self-discipline, You can tell the value that something has to you by the amount of time you invest in it. You always pay attention to and spend time on what you most value, whether it is your family, your health, your social or sports activities or your money and career. It is only by looking at how you spend your time that you, and everyone else, knows what is really important to you. The essence of time management is for you to discipline yourself to set clear priorities, and then to stick to those priorities. You must consciously and deliberately select the most valuable and important thing that you could be doing at any given time, and then discipline yourself to work solely on that task. According to one of the articles that I read on the Forbes magazine, it said that instead of thinking of time like something that you kill when you have too much of it, treat time like your own commodity that you want to protect. Continuing with the metaphor of time as money, imagine that other people, screens, and substances are like advertisements telling us how we should spend our time. These things tell us it is a great use of our time to spend it and they do it in a very subconscious, convincing nature. We might be pacified into spending our time or money on something we did not really want to. Be mindful. Do a thought exercise and imagine you have a year left to live. Imagine you had two weeks left to live. How would you spend your time? Imagine that in old age you are looking back on your memories of COVID-19, because well this is a historical event which you are a part of. So how do you want to reflect on this time and how you spent it? What is the story you want to tell that will reflect the type of person you want to be remembered as? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thehappinessproject/message
