Tip# 119
Time Management is for Your Personal Life Too
Too often we look at just spending time in trying to get our life organized just as it pertains to our jobs or businesses. We shut off our mind when we get home and then turn it on when we head back to the salt mines the next morning. You are missing a golden opportunity to put the practices you learn here, to superb use at home. Planning a successful family vacation requires every bit the same skills as organizing a 3-month project at work. The same effort you put into selecting and Prioritizing activities at work should also go into planning what gets done on a long weekend at home. Don’t turn off the skills you are developing at work when you walk into your own home.
Too often we look at just spending time in trying to get our life organized just as it pertains to our jobs or businesses. We shut off our mind when we get home and then turn it on when we head back to the salt mines the next morning. You are missing a golden opportunity to put the practices you learn here, to superb use at home. Planning a successful family vacation requires every bit the same skills as organizing a 3-month project at work. The same effort you put into selecting and Prioritizing activities at work should also go into planning what gets done on a long weekend at home. Don’t turn off the skills you are developing at work when you walk into your own home.
Tip# 120
No Telephone/Telephones in Meeting Rooms
This is one of those lightening-rod issues that come up in every seminar and meeting that I attend or give. It’s about control and who has it. Do you control your time or are you willing to give up that control to just about anyone? You are doing just that when you allow telephones/ a telephone in the room you are holding a meeting in. One of the stipulations when I rent a room for a seminar or meeting is that the phones are removed from the room. Yes, physically removed from the room. If the phone is attached to the wall, some one from maintenance comes in and unscrews it from the wall. If they don’t, I don’t pay the bill.
As for cell phones and other hand held technological pacifiers, they are asked to leave them in their rooms, outside the hall in the lock boxes we provide, the safe in the lobby, anywhere but in the room, thank you very much. There are breaks in the mid morning, a lunch break, an afternoon break and the seminar ends at 5:00 PM, ample time to check in if needed. As I’ve said, this is about control over your time. Who has control, you or somebody else? If you can not turn off your phone or access to it for what amounts to 1 ½ time blocks then you have a problem with more than your control over your time.
The telephone is really a symbol of where you are in the battle for the control of your time. The whole concept of Time Management hinges on you having the discipline to be able to close the door, take the phone off the hook and actually accomplish some task or project and have the confidence in the planning process that you will not implode. Being surgically attached to a phone is a clear sign that you are not in control of your time or your life. This is one of the top 3 issues that cause the most screaming and shouting in seminars. Nothing beats a good shouting match to wake the sleepers up in the back rows.
This is one of those lightening-rod issues that come up in every seminar and meeting that I attend or give. It’s about control and who has it. Do you control your time or are you willing to give up that control to just about anyone? You are doing just that when you allow telephones/ a telephone in the room you are holding a meeting in. One of the stipulations when I rent a room for a seminar or meeting is that the phones are removed from the room. Yes, physically removed from the room. If the phone is attached to the wall, some one from maintenance comes in and unscrews it from the wall. If they don’t, I don’t pay the bill.
As for cell phones and other hand held technological pacifiers, they are asked to leave them in their rooms, outside the hall in the lock boxes we provide, the safe in the lobby, anywhere but in the room, thank you very much. There are breaks in the mid morning, a lunch break, an afternoon break and the seminar ends at 5:00 PM, ample time to check in if needed. As I’ve said, this is about control over your time. Who has control, you or somebody else? If you can not turn off your phone or access to it for what amounts to 1 ½ time blocks then you have a problem with more than your control over your time.
The telephone is really a symbol of where you are in the battle for the control of your time. The whole concept of Time Management hinges on you having the discipline to be able to close the door, take the phone off the hook and actually accomplish some task or project and have the confidence in the planning process that you will not implode. Being surgically attached to a phone is a clear sign that you are not in control of your time or your life. This is one of the top 3 issues that cause the most screaming and shouting in seminars. Nothing beats a good shouting match to wake the sleepers up in the back rows.
Bryan Beckstead has been working with Internet Home Businesses and Home Business Opportunities for the last 20 years. For more articles on Internet Home Businesses, visit Normal 0 http://www.docstoc.com/docs/33406170/Time-Management-Tips-121-and-122--For-Internet-Home-Business-Owners
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