Where are you in the evolution of your time management?
Stage 1 – everything is in your head – reacting to whatever is most urgent
Stage 2 – keeping lists so as to survive and remember jobs to do – just keeping up with the game
Stage 3 – using a diary to plan ahead and fit everything in – playing the game
Stage 4 – prioritising according to values and goals: giving more time to the important things – staying ahead of the game
Stage 5 – controlling your future by spending time in box 3 (important but not yet urgent), avoiding problems which repeat, spending the maximum time on the things that matter, creating the life and results that you want. Making the rules of your own game!
***idea***
Instead of thinking “that’s a box 1 (emergency) I’ll have to do it now”,
or
” that’s a box 2 (urgent but not important) I’ll do it quickly”
Try to make every task a box 3 (important but not urgent),
so the 1’s become “Why did it happen? I’ll prevent a repeat” and the 2’s become “How can I train someone to do this, or systematise it?”
onwards and upwards!
CC
