months left to live?”
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Once you have decided how you would spend your last six months on earth,
you can then ask yourself, “How would I spend my time if I only had six
weeks left to live?”
Think about how you would spend your time if you only had six days to
live? Six hours? Finally what would you do, who would you want to talk to,
what would you want to say if you found that you only had 60 minutes left
to live?
If you only had a short time to live, the only thing you would think about
would be the most important people in your life. If you only had a short time
left to live, there is nothing that would be more important to you than to
reach out and communicate with them in some way. Whatever you would do
if you only had a short time left, be sure to include those words and activities
into your daily life. You never know.
Think About Your Values
To keep your life in balance, continually review your values, and what is
most important to you. You will always feel the happiest, and enjoy the
highest levels of self-esteem, when your goals and day-to-day activities are
congruent with your values. When what you are doing on the outside is
perfectly aligned with the very best person you could possibly be on the
inside, you will always feel better than at any other time.
Define and determine your ideal lifestyle. If you were financially
independent and you could organize your life in any way you wanted, what
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would you want to do differently from today? Imagine creating your perfect
calendar, week-by-week and month-by-month. If you could design your year
from January 1st to December 31st, how would you want to spend each day
and each week? Where would you like to go? What sort of vacations would
you like to take with your family? If your life were ideal, what time would
you go to bed, and what time would you rise? If you were completely free to
choose, what changes would make in your lifestyle starting today?
The greater clarity you have regarding your ideal lifestyle, the easier it is for
you to make the decisions in the short term that will assure that you create
that lifestyle sometime in the future. Clarity is everything.
Four Ways to Change Your Life
There are only four ways that you can change your life. First, you can do
more of some things, the things that are working well for you. Second, you
can do less of others things, those things that are not working in your work
and personal life. Third, you can start doing something that you are not
doing today. And fourth, you can stop something altogether.
In bringing your life into better balance, the first questions you ask are,
“What should I be doing more of, or less of, to improve the quality of my
life?” Almost invariably, you will decide that you need to work more
efficiently so that you can spend more time face-to-face, with people you
care about the most.
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Then ask yourself, “What should I start doing that I am not doing today if I
want to improve the quality of my life?” Finally, you should ask, “What
should I stop doing altogether if I want to have more time to do more of the
things that are most important to my life and goals?”
Sit down with your spouse and children and ask them for their insights and
opinions on these four questions. “What would you like me to do more of, or
less of?” Ask them, “What would you like me to start doing, or stop doing?”
They will give you ideas and opinions that can have a profound effect on the
quality of your family relationships.
Divide Your Life into Two Parts
Divide your life into two main parts, work and family. Priorize almost all
other activities as secondary to these two primary concerns. Instead of doing
your work, plus a whole series of other activities, and then giving your
family the crumbs that are left over, put your family and your relationships
in the center of your life. Organize your work and all of your other activities
around them.
When you work, work all the time you work. Don’t waste time. Don’t chat
with co-workers or sit around drinking coffee and reading the newspaper.
Don’t surf the Internet. Don’t take long lunches and coffee breaks. Don’t
start late and finish early. When you work, work! Keep repeating to yourself,
“Back to work! Back to work! Back to work!”
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When you are with your family, be there 100% of the time. Do not read the
newspaper, channel surf the television, talk on the phone or play with your
computer. Instead, spend more time face-to-face with the most important
people in your life.
Time Is the Measure of Value
The quality of a relationship is largely determined by the amount of time you
invest in that relationship. You can only increase the value of a relationship
to you, and the value of yourself in that relationship, by spending more time
with that person. This is as true at work and with customers as it is with your
spouse and your children. The more time you invest in them, the deeper and
richer will be the quality of your relationship. There is no substitute for time.
Your Highest Goal
Peace of mind is the greatest human good, and the goal of all human
activity. You should select peace of mind as your highest goal and organize
your entire life around it. It is only possible when your life is perfectly in
balance. You experience peace when you are doing what you were meant to
do, with the people with whom you were meant to do it.
To achieve greater peace of mind, listen to your intuition. Trust your inner
voice. The more you listen to the “still, small voice” within, the better and
more accurate guidance you will receive. As you follow the guidance of this
inner voice, and this higher power, you will be directed and prompted to do
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and say the right things in the right way at the right time. Men and women
begin to become great when they begin to trust their inner voices.
Two Types of Time
Work and family require two different types of time. Work requires quality
time. This is where you set priorities and discipline yourself to focus on the
most valuable use of your time. Work is aimed at achieving concrete,
measurable results for yourself and other people.
Relationships however require quantity time. They require long, unbroken
periods of time, in thirty, sixty, and 90-minute chunks, or even longer, where
you allow ample time for the relationship to unfold and develop. You cannot
rush an important relationship. There is no such thing as an efficient family
life.
To get the most done at work, you must set clear goals and objectives,
organize clear priorities, overcome procrastination, work on your most
valuable tasks, and press forward to completion and closure.
To get the very most out of your family and relationships, you must create a
large periods of unhurried time where the most pleasurable and enjoyable
moments can occur unbidden and unexpectedly.
Take Care of Yourself
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Keep your life in balance by investing time in physical fitness, in walking,
running, swimming or golf. Every joint in your body should be articulated
everyday. Every muscle should be flexed and stretched everyday. You
should engage in aerobic exercise three times per week to maintain
maximum levels of physical fitness, and to perform at your best.
If ever you feel that you are too busy to exercise, it means that your life is
out of balance. Whenever you feel that you are on a treadmill that you
cannot get off of because you have too much to do, it means that you are
approaching the breaking point. Whenever you feel that you cannot stop,
Nature is telling you that you must stop as soon as possible.
During the working day, take frequent breaks to stretch, go for a walk, and
change your space. Going for a walk during the day will do more to assure
that you are alert and productive in the afternoon than almost any other
activity.
Maintain High Levels of Mental Energy
In Texas, they say, “It is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of
the fight in the dog.” In keeping your life in balance, a paraphrase of this
statement would be, “It is not the number of hours you put in, but the quality
of thoughtfulness and alertness that you out into those hours.”
Decisions that you make, like going to bed early and getting a good night
sleep, have an inordinate impact on the quality of your day. When you are
fully rested, you produce far more high quality work than when you are tired
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because you have not slept enough. When you are fully rested, you make
better decisions which lead to better results. When you are tired, you often
make poor decisions which lead to mistakes and misunderstandings that
have to be dealt with or remedied, often at great cost. Fatigue is an enormous
time waster.
Eat Well for High Energy
What you eat and when you eat can have a major impact on your levels of
energy. When you eat a high quality breakfast and a high quality lunch, you
will be brighter and more alert throughout the day. You will be sharper and
have more energy. You will be more creative and confident. You will make
better decisions and get better results when you are properly nourished. The
practice of eating lightly, and avoiding sugars, salts and fatty foods, will
assure that you have more brain energy, and that you are more effective,
than if you consume foods that are not particularly good for you.
Teach Your Children Time Power
Make a good time management a part of your family life. Teach your
children good work habits by helping them with their homework and
insisting that it be done promptly, before they do anything else. In more than
8,000 studies of men and women who became high-achievers early in life,
one of the consistent factors they found was that their parents were
concerned about and involved in their children’s homework. The more that
children think that their parents care about them completing homework on
time, the more committed the children become to doing good schoolwork.
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This habit of doing good work, and getting it done promptly, then extends
into adult life.
Take Time Off to Rest and Relax
In keeping your life in balance, relaxing is often the most valuable use of
your time. Sometimes, the most important thing you can do is nothing. Take
at least one or two days off from work each week, and resolve to do nothing
work related on those days. Take the time to smell the roses.
Go for a walk with your spouse, your children or your friends. Take time to
sit back, to think, reflect, and to adjust your goals and priorities. Make sure
that your daily activities are consistent with your deepest convictions. Be
sure that your goals and priorities are congruent with your values.
Take time regularly to think about what is really important to you, and to
make sure that the outer aspects of your life are consistent and harmonious
with the inner aspects.
You Can Only Manage Yourself
Finally, in developing your philosophy of time management, continually
remind yourself that you cannot manage time. You can only manage
yourself. Time management is life management. Time management requires
self-control, self-mastery and self-discipline. Time management behaviors
and disciplines are skills that you can learn through practice and repetition.
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In time you, your ability to manage yourself and your life will become
automatic and easy.
Time management is a lifestyle that must be practiced every hour, everyday,
all the days of your life. It is the one habit, the one discipline that is essential
to everything else you want to achieve. With excellent time management
skills and practices, there are no limits.
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance
and above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted
for something, and that this something, at whatever cost, must be attained.”
(Marie Curie)
Action Exercises:
1. Think long term; project forward five and ten years and design your
perfect life in every respect. What does it look like?
2.
Make a detailed plan today to achieve financial independence by a
specific time in the future. How much will you need?
3.
Do what you love to do; determine the kind of work that would make
you the happiest and then organize your life to do it in an excellent
fashion. What is it?
4.
Examine your relationships and make sure that you would be happy
where you are for the rest of your life. If not, what changes are you
going to make?
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5.
Take excellent care of your physical health; eat, exercise, rest and
behave in such a way that you live to be 90 or older. What changes
should you make in your lifestyle?
6.
Change your life by doing more, less, starting or stopping things in
your life to improve your results and increase your overall
satisfaction. What changes are you going to make immediately?
7.
Keep your life in balance by placing your family at the center of every
decision and organizing everything around them. What could you do
or stop doing immediately to improve the quality of your family life?
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