Today’s Word is TIME

Time management is a misnomer because we don’t manage time. Each of us gets 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week, and 52 weeks in a year. What we can manage is ouselves.

There are at least four ways to use your time: 1) You can waste your time, 2) You can spend your time, 3) You can invest your time, OR 4) You can leverage your time. My favorite is the latter.

On July 7 I first subscribed to A MINUTE WITH MAXWELL. Now I receive a daily email from Dr. John Maxell with one minute of free video coaching. This is the best free leadership coach training I have come across.

John’s word of the day on Aug 3 was TIME. That is a hot button for me because my gift is helping people leverage their time.

 
Here are some good comments about time from John’s webpage “Today’s Word is TIME”

David Goodwin

Some thoughts on time, if I may take a minute…

1. We can not manage time but we can manage ourselves, we need to use the precious gift of time wisely.
2. We are encouraged in the bible to “redeem the time” to ensure that we use it wisely and for eternal purposes.
3. In the book of Galatians (In the bible) it says, “When the fullness of time had come God sent forth His son, born of a woman born under the law.” God is outside of time but operates perfect timing, when we belong to Him we need to trust in His timing.
4. Time will end but eternity is forever – which will you invest in?
5. There is a time for everything – enjoy the seasons of your life.

Dr Richard Norris

Time is life. Life is time. Therefore time management is actually life management. As John indcated doing a time audit is a worthwhile exercise for anyone. Time is something you can invest or waste. It is one of, if not you most important asset. When we invest our assets we expect a return. So…a further question for us all to ask is, “What return am I getting for investing my time?” That return can be health, wellbeing, wealth etc.

Stephen Willson Murphy
Leaderhip Advisor, Leadership developer, leadership consultant at TheAmazingGOLD.com

TIME – There is no such thing as managing time as John said. I teach that it is Priority management Americans tend to dedicate their time (especially at work) on dealing with the urgent and easy. The key to success and the wise use of time is to deal with the important and attack the hard as early as you can! In the past I have helped people refocus their efforts by doing just what John suggested recording their time – what did they do, when, and how long. I suggest that they do it for one week. Almost every time they discover just what I said they spend most of their time on what is NOT important! So get out there and manage your priorities! It will produce great benefit for you and better utilize your limited resource – time (24 hour in a day)! Much success!

 
Blessings to budget your time to invest it more wisely!