Words to Live By

The best-selling author of Swimming With The Sharks, Harvey MacKay has said:

"Time is free, but it's priceless.
You can't own it, but you can use it.
You can't keep it, but you can spend it.
Once you've lost it you can never get it back."

At the start of the new year, this feels all that much more familiar. We all have 86,400 seconds in our day, yet many people still seem to struggle with effective time management skills. We allow time to control us, rather than controlling how we spend the time we have.

However, what we're struggling with has less to do with time management and more to do with activity management.

This makes great sense, since time is a fixed asset - no matter how much we'd like to manufacture more, it isn't possible. All we can do is properly manage the actions we take within each segment of the time that is available to us.

The fact of the matter, is that we DO have enough time. What we don't have is enough focus on planning productive action. We simply need to organize in our minds the tasks that move us forward in our lives, and manage those activities. Once we take a serious look at all of the details in our minds, we can effectively determine what we can delegate, what actions take precedence over others, and what we can simply decide not to do at all.

There is freedom in the knowledge that you are living the minutes of your life with intentional action. Finding ways to implement effective activity management leads to stress free productivity, causing you to live your best life.