Monday, September 20, 2010

Do you have time for Success

Success is one thing people every where desire to attain. Whether you are a CEO, Entrepreneur, Business personnel, professional, or a student, irrespective of the field of specialisation, success is always in view. People want to be counted as successful. Success is not an achievement, but a destination, and the difference between one destination and another is time. If you desire to board on a plane from your present location to another location, what you are most concerned about is the time of departure and that of arrival. You can not talk about success, if you do not know how to manage time wisely.

   Am There....But too lateWhat do you think of a man at 70year obtaining his first degree, a woman at 65year having her first issue, making your first million at 80year. All of these achievement calls for celebration, but the timing is not just right. There is nothing like early satisfaction. When you see your goals come to pass at the right time, it gives you great joy of accomplishment and fulfilment. Start early, so that you can get more done and accomplish great.
   Choose Your Time
Time varies from place to place, and from one person to another. 6am in New-york is not the same in Madrid. Morning time for most people, might be Evening for others. Determine your time. Decide that now is the most appropriate time to begin your journey to success. Put away the agents of boredom and distraction, harness the treasure of time.

  • Set goals.
  • Make plans toward achieving your set goals.
  • Prioritize your plans.
  • Take consistent action steps towards your goals.
  • Keep track of your activities.
  • Assess yourself to know how well you are doing. This will help you adjust, change and improve where there are lapses.
  • Always rate your performance as it relates to your goals.

The Gift Called Time

Just like life and several other gift we receive without effort, labour or request. Time is also a gift that is
precious and should be cherished. We get excited about gifts we receive during birthdays, anniversary,
thanksgivings and other eventful occasions in live. Stop and think, how many times have you ever being excited about time. The beauty of time is that it is independent of seasons, events, inventions and all other factors. It is a constant.

Seasons change, but Time is constant,
Records are broken, but Time ticks on,
Products expire, but Time remains,
Alive or dead, Time does not change,
Time does not stop, it ticks on and each tick accounts for life. Your altitude towards time show your value for it. The greatest lost to avoid is not that of a job, car, stock or money, but of time. You can replace a car, get a new job and earn more money, but time gone can never be recovered.

More than you love your career, love time
More than you respect your boss, respect time
More than you value your jewelries, value time
More than you are committed to your relationship, be committed to time
More than you manage your business, manage time.
If there is one gift to be worried about loosing, it is your time.

Utilising Time
Time ticks irrespective of persons. It does not choose who to favour and who not to. What you sow is what you reap. In order to utilise time, you must know that there is non to waste. Keep in your mind that you do not own time, therefore you can not control it. Thinks of time as the difference between your today and your expected tomorrow. See time as your resources to attain greatest and achieve your dreams.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Time Management and Money

Time is money. Managing time is saving money. If you want to make money, you need to manage your time very carefully and avoid anything which distracts you and takes you away from your primary focus. What time worth varies from persons to person. Every seconds of every day has monetary value, no matter what you are doing. While most people earn $7.25 an hours others earn more depending on the worth placed on time. Knowing how much time to schedule for each job is critical. Time is a resource you must invest it carefully. The bottom line is to start thinking of your time as the precious commodity it is. Time is money - so invest it. Invest it in those areas that produce the most benefit and lead toward living a full and enriched life. Stop just spending time, wasting time, and giving time away. Invest it!

  Thinking of Time as Money
Assign a monetary value to your time, and watch how much less of it you are willing to waste on unimportant stuff. When you are not sure an activity is worthwhile, calculate how much it will cost to do it. Watching TV suddenly becomes very expensive, money that could take you closer to your dream. The choice is yours.  Change the way you manage your time. There are four primary things we can do with money. It can be spent, it can be saved, it can be invested, and it can be given away. Time cannot be saved. It passes by, second by second, 1,460 minutes, each and every day. Once it is gone, you can never get it back. You have only three options for using the time you are given each day. You can spend it, you can give it away, and you can invest it. To spend money means to pay out money or give money for something in return.

Never Late....Always On Time

The essence of time management is carrying out planned task within the stipulated time. Beyond setting goals and panning on how to actualise those goal is the within time factor. the satisfaction of accomplishing a task is doing it within the time allotted. trust is a function of how much you respect time. You can not be trusted, f you can not maintain time. Lateness either to work, an appointment, or even an occasion, shows lack of self discipline and disregard for that valuable asset called time.

   Self Value and Discipline
Time management begins with self discipline.Time management will be hard if you do not apply enough self discipline. Boredom and tiredness can easily set in which may upset the process. The value placed on something, determines what it is worth and the time that will given to it.
How much value do you place on yourself? Remember, you can not give what you do not have. If you do not value yourself, you can not value time. Begin working on yourself. When you can properly manage yourself, you can manage time to your advantage.

   Starting Early
There is an advantage in starting early, which you must utilise. When you start on a task early you gain more time to yourself. You must understand that there is no time to waste. you must at all times be busy doing something relevant to your goal. when you delay in carrying out activities, you would end up having carryovers that would make you have pile-up  work for the following day. making the work more task full.

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Time Management Skills

If you have problems running late, meeting important deadlines or getting things done what you actually need to learn is how to manage yourself. Then you can make the most of the time you have. Time ManagementSkills, are really self-management skills. Once you learn how to create and manage your focus, control your habits, manage your energy levels and limit distractions you will experience what has become known as "Time Management Skills."It's really about being productive and effectively using the time you have to get the important things done. Once you focus on managing yourself, rather than attempting to manage the external concept of time, you will take control of your results.

 Benefits!

With the ability to manage your time, you will be able to reduce the stress in your life, have more focus to concentrate your efforts, have more motivation to achieve what you want, increase your self-esteem and belief in yourself. Besides benefiting yourself, it will benefit others too. For example, you can help to make improvements in everyone time management by setting a good example.
For your continuing development, set yourself challenging yet realistic goals. When your goals have been accomplished, build on that success and set new goals. Make a commitment to make changes to those changes you have identified for yourself. For example, change something that can help to improve your lifestyle. Remember, time is very precious because once spent, it will be gone forever!