How To Manage Your Time

Whether you are busy doing the right things or not, time is not going to wait for you.

‘Time waits for no one.’ Time doesn’t know what you are doing. Time can’t get into your head.

‘Your new goal is to live an integrated life that starts exactly where you are.’

But time is everything. If you want a better life, manage your time really well. Because time management is self-management. And self-management is life-management.

If you can manage your life, you can manage your time. If you can manage your time, you can manage your life.

Remember, ‘How you live your day is how you live your life.’

To manage your time, don’t do everything at once. ‘Everything at once’ is the problem, not the solution.’ Focus on what matters. What matters will make your life matter. When it comes to time management, everything is not important. And everything is not urgent. If you want to increase your results, you must focus on what is important, not on what is urgent.

Always start your project with what is important to you and your organization. ‘Naming what matters is aligning your needs with your season, no matter what is happening.’

‘The achievability of a list rises to the level of the hardest thing on it.’

You can manage your time when your priorities are not at odds with each other. ‘When your priorities are at odds with each other, it’s common to waffle between the two for so long that you lose your chance at either.’

You can manage your time when you focus on what is right in front of you. Where you are going is important, but where you are is more important. Because ‘if getting ready for our future comes at the expense of our present, we will always feel discontent.’

You can manage your time when you know that you are not your plan, that things change, and that there are things that you cannot control. ‘If your plan works, it works. If it doesn’t, it’s not a failure. Neither are you.’

You can manage your time when you are true to yourself, when you are painting your picture, and when you are designing your own future. ‘In order to really live, you must live in your season.’

You can manage your time when you are in charge of your energy. ‘If you don’t have the energy, adjust the expectation.’ If you want to achieve greatness in your life, you must manage your expectations really well. If your expectations are too high, they can lead to frustrations. If they are too low, you will get bored.

You can manage your time when you are nice to yourself, when you follow your heart. Being nice to yourself means you are grounded in your reality. You are doing the work. ‘Staying grounded doesn’t preclude staying on task. But if you try to stay on task in a frantic state, you will not stay on task for long.’

You can manage your time when you focus on getting better every day. How do you get better? By doing things differently. By thinking differently. When it comes to managing your time, know that ‘what you bring to the table today is likely different from what you brought yesterday and what you’ll bring tomorrow. It’s not exceptionally different but different enough to make a difference.’

You can manage your time when you know how you do your work. As human beings, we don’t work alone. We work with other people. ‘The more you understand your unique personality, the more integrated you become.’

Source

Kendra Adachi (2024). The Plan: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius