Are you always late, in a hurry or leaving projects and deadlines to the last minute? Are you always struggling on prioritizing what which to do first and what can be left for later? Well, I plan on helping you with your time management. If so, you need to breath, focus and ask yourself if you are ready to change and start managing your time properly. Read each article in post order to get the most out of this category. Each will build on one another, resulting in a solid foundation in managing your time.
Here some principles that you need to know that can benefit you a lot in understanding time management.
Basic Principles of Productivity
1. Everyone can be productive and creative [ identify talents and develop them into strengths]
2. Managing time is actually about managing yourself [we're not in control most of the time, we are in reactive mode]
3. We have 3 brains, not just 1 [Brainstem [physical] – Mammalian [emotional] – Cortex [intellectual]…we have a thought and we can ‘will’ ourselves = an illusion, really our old brains are in control in terms of sex, power, controlling others, feeling threatened, getting love and affection and approval from other people — not the intellect brain — take control of us and the thinking part of our brain and rationalize things etc…the 3 brains aren’t in rapport and experience conflict [i.e. feeling emotionally pulled to do something but you know you probably shouldn't, or you really want to do something that will give you pleasure but your emotions are feeling guilty] – thus where a lot of our inner conflict comes from…thus must integrate them together]
4. Habit is destiny [most of what you do is the exact same thing physically, emotionally, and intellectually and you've paved these neurological ways of being to become 'habits' - thus you must make the things you must do to be productive into routines into habits]
5. Internal chaos creates external chaos [inner butterfly effect w/ mind body feelings and emotions and managing and smoothing inner chaos means the external chaos will take care of itself]
6. Focus your talent and strength on your biggest opportunity [take your talent, develop it into a strength, and focus it on your biggest opportunity]
7. Your future can be an extension or replay of your past OR it can be something new that you create [if you try and hold on to your past, your story, your explanations, things you do to get approval etc vs let go of all of it to create the future you want -- you cannot become the best and highest potential you...you have let go of the past and comfort zone and create something that is entirely new]
8. Focus on what you want to create, not what you want to avoid
9. Choose, don’t decide ['decide' implies to cut off possibility while 'choose' implies having multiple options and choosing the one you want]
10. Balance organization with restricting creativity [organizations and structure vs going with the flow - where could you use more of either in your life?]
11. If you want to wake up productive you must go to the next level and you must become the next version of you and you must go to the next paradigm and next level of thinking [you must become YOU VERSION 2.0]