Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Time: Our Friend

Exactly six months ago .. I had my blog entry for the year..

I know, I know!  That is not the way to work on a blog!
Excuses like, "I was too busy.." "Office workload and deadlines were way too much..." yadda yadda yadda..

The list goes on and on.

After assessing what had transpired, I found out that, it's not about the things that you HAVE to do, it's about HOW you schedule the things that you WANT / NEED / HAVE to do!

Everyone is pressed for time. Everyone has their own personal deadlines. Everyone is BUSY.
Heck, that's one of the reasons why we cannot even "Squeeze in a workout" in our super duper busy schedule.

Time management is a skill that most of us are not born with, but as with every skill, it could be learned.


Time is the great equalizer. We need to use our time more efficiently.. so you ask, how do we do that?



As with every activity, like maintaining a blog, or your own physical fitness, we need to PLAN our goals and MONITOR progress.

We also need to asses what is most important to us.
Remember that there is always a list of what needs to be done - and be aware that we cannot do it all.
We just need to KNOW which of the bullets on our list is TOP PRIORITY.


Time Management is a habit - it is not something you can learn easily.
According to Steven R Covey’s book "7 Habits of Highly Effective People", there are four possible categories for the things on your to-do list:
  • important and due soon (Quadrant I)
  • important and not due soon (Quadrant II)
  • not important but due soon (Quadrant III)
  • not important and not due soon (Quadrant IV)

 Knowing what your "things to do" are and working on it based on the quadrants is a good habit to start.

So, let's all start making a list and write "GETTING IN A WORKOUT" in all caps and flag is in Quadrant II  cause we don't want to reach to a point when it gets to be in Quadrant I.

See you in the gym!

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