Great Time Management - Mastery
Mastering Time Management
Do you consider yourself a master at Time Management? When others observe your daily activity do you exude a sense of effortlessness and joyousness in way you travel through the day?
By definition anyone who is masterful at anything produces excellent results in a seemly effortless fashion.
I went fly fishing for trout with a friend this past weekend. It has been close to 40 years since I have used a fly rod and my attempts to cast were not very accurate nor did they appear effortless by any means. However, my friend has been fly fishing regularly for the past 20 plus years. His casts were extremely accurate and appeared so effortless and smooth. I suggested he may have been the fisherman in the movie, “A River Runs Through It.”
In some ways time management is like casting a fly with a fly rod. A master makes the practice look so simple, easy and effective, but when the inexperienced make their first attempts so many things seem to break down making the effort feel and look difficult or awkward. It is at this point many feel change is impossible and give up trying to master time management.
Time management mastery is not a simple exercise just as it is not an impossible one either. Here are three steps to set you on your journey to mastery of time management:
- Encourage Creative Pressure
- Accurately describe time management results you want to demonstrate.
- Accurately describe your current time management results.
- Identify why is it important for you to close this gap?
- Expand Creative Confidence
- Accurately describe the actions of a time management master.
- Accurately describe your current time management techniques.
- Identify the ways you can successfully close this gap.
- Establish Creative Behavior
- Generate innovative ways to create personal experience.
- Listen to the stories of time management masters.
- Transform new learning into new actions.
Frequently, people find the process of time management undesirable because it is a disciplined process but when used consistently, these three steps will make mastery of time inevitable in your life.
Success occurs in this process not because you are forced but because you have created the intrinsic satisfaction needed to propel you toward an effortless and joyous trip though life.
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Article by John Golden