TIME MANAGEMENT

We all have the same amount of time but some people do a lot more than others. Most of the time I am in the others category.

I am now a student of time. Maybe because I have used up most of my allotted amount. I don't brood over it but I like to think about it withe view to achieving something with it.

We have never been taught to use it. We go to school and it is organised for us. We go to work and most of the time we do as we are told. Once you become self employed or further up the corporate ladder we are more in charge of our time.

We are still not fitted to use it properly.

I now achieve a lot more than I used to but I am still a great waster of time. I have a few things I would like to achieve in the next few years and I need to get organised.

We give ourselves many excuses as to why we do not achieve what we are perfectly capable of achieving with a bit of application. On television at the moment there is a series claiming that you can pay your mortgage off in two years.

The presenter claims that 85% of people in Britain feel that having a mortgage is holding them back. They think that if they could pay off their mortgage they could achieve what they want to in life and they would be relieved from the pressure.

It is a convenient hook to hang your problems on. If you present a problem that is supposedly insurmountable then you are giving a problem that you think that you cannot resolve as a good reason for all your failings.

He then gives the selected group two years to pay off their mortgages. he gives them help and coaching.All of them are capable of paying off their mortgages as they have the skills and the help they need.

Two years is not very long but they are getting a lot of help and with that help and their skills it impossible. can they do it. They are obviously a self selecting group in that they have volunteered and they are getting help

So far out of about four groups only one has succeeded. They were hippies to start with but they did have the skill of being a blacksmith and the bloke invented a type of cooker by cutting up a gas cylinder. It was unique and he was able to make about one thousand pounds per cooker. He only needed to sell about one hundred in two years which he did.

The others have given it the talk and more talk. They do something then do not follow it through. They sit around for months making no decisions or sticking at the wrong things.

They have wasted time by being frozen by lack of confidence. They want the answer but they are no prepared to go and look for it or work towards it.

The answer is that you can pay your mortgage off in two years if you want it enough and you are prepared to work at it.

The competitors are all too middle class. They know how to reason and discuss and that is what they do. If they had no choices but to make money to get out of the mire they would have to do it.

They have a comfortable life and they do not like to fail at what they do. It is better not to have tried than fail as you can then withdraw with honour. You can then tell people that the task was too big and everyone will sympathise with you and secretly be pleased. We are all OK we cannot pay off our mortgages

We can now fail in peace.

It is all entire cobblers of course. We can succeed and the only person holding us back from our success is ourselves. It is not because we are lazy. we can be very busy dong noting working the whole day through but it gets us nowhere unless we are doing the right things.

Time management is doing the right things in the right order. It is easy.