Time Is All That Matters
WHAT does it take to be more productive? Try asking every Tom, Dick and Harry, I'll best you will receive an equivalent number of disparate answers. Time Is All That Matters. More hours in the day. It's one thing everyone wants and yet it's impossible to attain. BUT what if you could free up significant time, maybe as much as 20% of your workday, so you can focus on the responsibilities that really matter. Many researches showed that roughly 40% of our time is spent on discretionary activities that offer little personal satisfactionπππ
YET, WHY do we still keep on doing those discretionary stuff? Psychologists opine that ridding oneself of such activities is easier said than done. Human nature explains WHY we instinctively cling to things and tasks that make us feel busy and thus, important. Heard of those busybodies, the nosey folks WHO seem to be 'all over the place' BUT at the end of the day, it's NOT them who would product the expected results. It's true delegating tasks, WHETHER at work or at home, is a must-do BUT it's NOT fair to do more for less. Instead, we are encouraged to be more productive by thinking consciously about HOW they spend their time, deciding WHICH tasks matter most to themπππ
I CAN'T have a better concrete example done sharing my post-mortems of my past forays. And with all humility, I do realize now that I was thankful that I fully and wholly embraced that TIME IS ALL THAT MATTERS. And that was tricky. Because you can't be prematurely early to kickstart an initiative. On the other hand, if you are a step late in your moves, you could have missed out BIG TIME the locomotive train that left just before you cameπ¦π¦π¦
Regrettably, I bear witness to a hell lot of misses in life, NOT because the person was incapable, NOT because he was ill-advised to take that path, NOT because there was a better option than that itself BUT because he was either a split-second prematurely early or just happened to be late by a hairline. Much as we agree that there is NO such thing as perfection, that was all that matters and frankly, this is quite a 'tall order' unless you will embrace that TIME IS ALL THAT MATTERSπ§π§π§
Our takeaway: We CAN'T create an extra TIME, NOT even an extra minute BUT WHAT we can ably do is to utilize to the hilt the time we got in our hands. Even making phone calls may easily be pushed after lunch BUT as petty as this matter is, the thing is you might thing you're important to some people BUT hey, let's admit it, you're NOT as important as lunch itself. Some may invoke that the alignment of stars do matter. I'd take that as outliers because TIME IS ALL THAT MATTERSπ₯π₯π₯