How to Manage Your Time Effectively - Part II
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.“Time=Life; therefore, waste your time and waste your life, or master your time and master your life.” ~ Alan Lakein.
In Part I we defined nourishing and malnourishing time and explored how to go about identifying just how we are spending our time and whether it is in line with our goals. Once you have identified how you currently spend your time, you need to look at how you might want to change this use of your time by replacing malnourishing time with nourishing time, and maximizing your nourishing time.
Converting malnourishing time to nourishing time
For those blocks of time which you have identified as malnourishing, you have to consider how you might make it nourishing. How can you use that time so that it nourishes your goals, and your objectives? So maybe you decide that 4 hrs of tv is really malnourishing however 1 hr of tv will be nourishing, what do you do with the other 3 hrs? How can you use it so that it nourishes you? Which goal can you nourish with that time? Perhaps if you have a goal to become healthy, you could exercise for an hour. Maybe you have a goal to finish a book, so you could read for an hour. Maybe you have a goal to sleep better, so for the last hour before bed you could meditate and listen to soothing music. Of course in order to use your time to nourish your goals you need to know what your goals are. If you need help with this you can access the article “Achieving Your Goals Part I - Goal Identification.”
Maximising your nourishing time
So you are done right,? You have got this time management thing down? Not quite. The next step is to consider your current nourishing time and see if you can maximize it. You want to see if you are making the most effective use of your time here. It is time spent nourishing your goals but could it be spent to nourish even more of your goals or to nourish the same goal more effectively?
So let’s go back to the goal of studying. If you spend one hour studying, how do you do it? Do you simply read the book for the entire hour? That is nourishing certainly but it might not be as nourishing as it could be. You could be reading a section then verbally explaining what you just read – reviewing it to ensure that you really understood it. You could be making notes. You could be quizzing yourself on it. Is your time as nourishing as it could be? Is it the most effective use of this nourishing time?
Further, are you nourishing your goals in the correct proportion? The correct proportion is determined by your priority. Let’s say you have two goals – one is to study and get an A and the other is to exercise. You might decide that your priority is to get the A so therefore would you spend one hour exercising and 10 minutes studying? Nope. You would have to allocate the time in proportion to your priorities. This is a clear obvious example, but in truth, your life is more complicated than this and you have more than two goals and many different blocks of time.
Further your priorities will fluctuate depending on what is happening in your life. As you get closer to the exam you might find that the studying takes on an even greater priority than before and that other items are reduced in priority. So you must always be conscious of how you are using your nourishing time to ensure that it is nourishing your goals most effectively and in the correct priority.
So to summarise, you need to:
- Carefully note how you use your time – nourishing or malnourishing
- Decide how to change your malnourishing time to nourishing time
- Decide how to maximize your nourishing time
This might seem like a lot of work and possible waste of time, however this is an excellent investment of your time that will allow you to better manage your time.
“The bad news is that time flies. The good news is that you are the pilot.”
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