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December, 2011
Not Enough Time for Everything!
Denis Barette
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Between clients, work and home life, my schedule prevents me from even considering a training program to better my skills. This statement is restrictive and we should guard ourselves against it. One solution: getting a firm grasp on our activities, plus the value we attach to our time are ideal tools. Sounds simple enough – and it is!
We live in a highly dynamic world – everything pulls at our attention: responsibilities, work, family, friends. Then add our environment to this: street noise, radio, TV, visual advertising campaigns… newspapers; all bombarding our senses demanding attention, and it’s easy to see we could use extra hours added to the 24 hour allowance if we want to take part in everything asked of and offered to us. So this article is to offer you a starting point to maximize your time.
Just what do we want? If you’re true to yourself and commitment, you will process all that’s available and make a final choice. In fact, make it definite and choose what you really want. Then the statement becomes: What I want, I will want with a sense of conviction, without compromise and with full commitment; I will not stray from my decision as all other options are gone! This is not selfish, but the opposite—you become of greater service to others when you know what you want and move in that direction.
Making a decision is simple. Just ask yourself four little questions. Answer YES to the first 3 and NO to the last:
1. Do I want this?
2. Will having this move me towards
my objective?
3. Is having this legal?
4. Does having this take away from
someone’s freedom or diminish his
rights?
(You may consider cutting out this paragraph and keeping it in your pocket as you form the habit of decisive decision making)
Once you’ve answered the questions, you’ve made your decision; stick to it and see it through – each time a distraction comes your way, remember your decision (thereby, eliminating the distraction from thought). At this point, a decision will be to make a list of all you want, then pick the ones you want most and evaluate (through the decision process above) if you can commit to attaining them. Write them down, this is important as writing causes thinking and emotional involvement with the plan.
In short, if you want more time for skill training, or a new hobby, you‘ll have to let something else go (TV, computer surfing, etc…). The key here is to attach more value to the desire than to the released activity through choice. Let me know how this works out for you.
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