There is no "time management"

The idea of ​​time management seems very ridiculous. This is probably one of the most common mistakes in life and work. The more you worry about time management, the more you become its hostage. You try not to think about something - but you end up thinking about it even more.

Sometimes you can't manage. He doesn't stop for anyone. He doesn't wait. It cannot be controlled. Time will go on and on, ignoring you, but eventually it will take you with it.

Why, then, are there so many books written about time management, why do so many people pretend to understand this issue? Perhaps because everyone wants to learn how to find the shortest paths to goals or invent a trick that will help save time. Brian Tracy, one of the world leaders in the field of time management, was the first to say what it is: "Time management is life management."

That is, you should manage not time, but yourself. His life. With your decisions, behavior and emotions.

We are all given enough time to achieve amazing things and leave something for future generations. If one person can fly to the moon, earn a billion, rid the world of polio, or become the best bodybuilder on the planet, then a famous actor, and finally the governor of a state, then you can do it too. Bill Gates and Arnold Schwarzenegger have as many minutes per hour, hours per day, days per week, weeks per year as you do.

So the problem isn't how much time you or anyone else has, it's how you use it.

If you did not manage to finish something on time, it is not because you did not have enough time, but because you did not distribute the workload well or planned the work process incorrectly.

If you're not doing something that's important to you, or you can't find balance in all aspects of your life, then you're not managing your priorities effectively.

If you are constantly busy with something that is not important for you, but for other people; if you earn money for them, while you could sit comfortably at home; if you don't know what to do, are constantly dissatisfied with yourself and are overloaded with work, then you yourself are to blame. You spent time on other people's problems to the detriment of what is important in your life.

If at the end of the day you ask yourself, "Did I do something smart?" — and the answer turns out to be no, which means you've wasted the most valuable resource known to mankind.

You can either invest time in something important or waste it. There is no intermediate option. Time is your main currency. You can control it only by controlling your life and how you distribute this resource, which you have no more and no less than others.

Life management is discipline in action. Not suffering, self-denial, or self-sacrifice, but having a vision—a long-term vision of who and where you want to be—and consistently making the right, high-priority decisions, even when you're feeling lazy.

Life management, formerly known as time management, is the intelligent use of other time-related assets such as people, money, ideas, information, software, systems. This wise use allows you to achieve more with a minimum of your own time, which is freed up for the realization of your higher values.

To deceive time, that is, to get a greater result as quickly as possible, only outsourcing and the use of the philosophy of life management make it possible. Working harder and longer is not a solution. You need to see time as an asset, as a currency, not as a fixed-duration task or to-do list.

You can cheat time if you are objective about important things (priorities) and unimportant things (post-priorities), if you persistently concentrate on tasks with the highest value or those that bring income, and everything else is delegated to other people, postponed for later, or deleted altogether from his life