I thought the key was to manage time, but the funny thing is you can't. Time is constant and irreversible, it plods ever onward regardless of what we do. You cannot manage five minutes into six. The key is action, or rather to manage the action, the activity, that you are doing in time. Gettting control of the tasks at hand and ensuring there is time set aside to do them. I have also learned that if it's a small job, you can do it now and now not waste the energy to find it on a list and think abot it again. This is for really small jobs that can be completed in two minutes or less.
For me this is relatively new, but I think it's working. I am being more productive when I need to be. I can't take the credit for this epiphany I learned it from Getting Things Done, which might turn out to be a great book for me to keep track of multiple roles and multiple projects.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Thursday, September 4, 2008
As time goes by, and other music interludes..
T, t, t, ticking away the moments that make up a dull day..... (Pink Floyd)
Time is of the essence. For the past month I have become acutely aware of time. It is a precious commodity available each day in a finite amount. I am amazed at how easily it is wasted. A moment here as my children show me some great moves in their latest video game conquest, or a television show that catches you and holds your attention, either because it is inane crap or an absolute gem of writing and production. The fact remains that unless my intent at that moment was to watch it there is something else that I could be doing. I am resolved to make better conscious use of my time throughout the day. Not because I am a miracle of over-achievement and organization, but because a little conscious effort in this way might drastically improve my efficiency. Improved efficiency does several things. One is to get what needs doing out of the way, and that leaves more time for the time to enjoy life and family and music and movies and books and all those things that get backlogged by business.
Well, that's all the time I have for this. I will schedule regular posts so I can be efficient at this too.
Lary
Time is of the essence. For the past month I have become acutely aware of time. It is a precious commodity available each day in a finite amount. I am amazed at how easily it is wasted. A moment here as my children show me some great moves in their latest video game conquest, or a television show that catches you and holds your attention, either because it is inane crap or an absolute gem of writing and production. The fact remains that unless my intent at that moment was to watch it there is something else that I could be doing. I am resolved to make better conscious use of my time throughout the day. Not because I am a miracle of over-achievement and organization, but because a little conscious effort in this way might drastically improve my efficiency. Improved efficiency does several things. One is to get what needs doing out of the way, and that leaves more time for the time to enjoy life and family and music and movies and books and all those things that get backlogged by business.
Well, that's all the time I have for this. I will schedule regular posts so I can be efficient at this too.
Lary
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