STOP Managing Your Time!

STOP Managing Your Time!

Until this very moment, we keep hearing everywhere that we should do this:  to MANAGE OUR TIME.  But studies show that we must STOP Managing our Time because we are all BARKING AT THE WRONG TREE!  Apparently, one of the biggest red herrings in most of the productivity advice we see has to do with the relentless pursuit to CONTROL, wrangle, seek, carve out or MANAGE TIME📌📌📌

Now, here's the very blunt statement arising from those studies: MANAGE YOUR ENERGY, NOT YOUR TIME.  IF YOU DO THAT, TIME WORKS ITSELF OUT.  The studies show that the science of stamina has advanced to the point where individuals, teams, and whole organizations can, with some straightforward interventions, significantly increase their capacity to get things done💵💴💷

Heard of this story:  He was young, married, with four children, working 10 to 14 hours a day, felt perpetually exhausted, and found it difficult to engage with his family in the evenings, which made him feel guilty and dissatisfied.  He SLEPT POORLY, made NO time to exercise, and seldom ate HEALTHY MEALS. instead grabbing a bite to eat on the run while working📗📙📘

BUT hey, studies tell us that the core of the problem with working LONGER HOURS is that TIME IS A FINITE RESOURCE.  ENERGY is a different story though.  From a Physics perspective, ENERGY is defined as the capacity to work, energy comes from four main wellsprings in human beings:  the BODY, EMOTIONS, MIND and SPIRIT💎💎💎

In each, ENERGY can be systematically expanded and regularly renewed by establishing specific rituals, behaviors that are intentionally practiced and precisely scheduled, with the goal of making them unconscious and automatic as quickly as possible.  Quick FIXES: IF you're feeling tired, shorten a call by 5-15 mins.  PUT OFF a task for later when you know it will be easier on you.  OR do the thing BUT in a way that gives you a bit more ENERGY.  The key is to NOTICE YOUR ENERGY STATE, give yourself headspace to think about options.  Bottomline is STOP MANAGING YOUR TIME,  TIME TO MANAGE OUR ENERGY✅✅✅