Making Time – The Realistic Time Management Method

I chuckle when I hear someone say, “Make time for it.” It’s funny to me because deep down I know we can’t “make time” for anything. We don’t have the ability to make time. What we do have the ability to do is put other stuff to the side so that we can take care of this one thing that has now become a priority.

The time we have is the time we have. Period. We can’t produce any more of it and to be quite frank, we don’t even know how much of it we still have available to us. So, when somebody suggests that we make time to do this or to do that, we are really shifting our focus and putting our “things” in a different order on our to do list.

Have you ever spent time doing something and when it was over you said internally or perhaps even out loud, “That was a huge waste of my time,”? Yeah, we all have at some point. But because we don’t realize it until afterwards we don’t expect to feel down about the thirty minutes, hour or week that we know we are never going to get back.

Wouldn’t a time making machine be really cool? Okay, let’s dream for just a few minutes. Close your eyes and imagine… wait, don’t close your eyes. You won’t be able to read on. Just imagine (with your eyes open) that you have the ability to “make time”. How much would you make and what would you do with it? Would you share it? Would you hoard it?

The first question is, “What would you do with the time that you had the ability to produce?” The question to follow that question is, “Why are you not already doing those things in the time that you already have?”

Do the things that you know you should be doing and do them now. We all have a list, whether it’s written down or in our heads. So, what is on your list right now that you need to do? Those things are not going to get completed until you decide to complete them. And, after you decide to complete them, you actually have to put forth the effort and create the action that is going to enable you to complete them.

What is your next step? You already know the answer. GO DO!™