Getting Things Done
Simple Guide To Become More Productive, Stress-Free, Get More Done in Less Time, and Be Highly Effective Today
JONATHAN BRIGGS
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First Published, 2013
Print Version
ISBN: 0615865062
ISBN-13: 978-0615865065
Published in the United States of America
DEDICATION
First and foremost this book is dedicated to God for giving me the ability to share gifts with the world. I would also like to include my ever supporting Mom. She is always there for me and always encouraged me to follow my dreams.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thank you to the following individuals who without their contributions and support this book would not have been written:
My mentor and coach Keith Dougherty, without your guidance and support I would not be where I am today.
My business partner Steve, you provide a great support system for our continued success
Introduction
Have we ever taken any attempt to find the most important resource in our life? Maybe or maybe not, but we often seem to fall between two fires when looking for the best way to succeed in life. Taking advantage of the most advanced technology used by the search engines, we can now find what we need. With money, we can buy almost all things. However, there is still one thing that we can neither buy nor manage.
Do we know what that valuable thing is? Here is a hint, it may help us become successful or its shortage may even push through the door of failure? Yes!, It is our time that we can never stop, or direct, as we want. If we look back through the pages of history, what we might see is the game of time, which constantly makes our human civilization helpless. However, we can certainly do things to overcome such barriers, and that is to what time management mainly refers.
We all have exactly the same amount of time that can be counted as sixty seconds in a single minute, sixty minutes in each hour, 1,440 minutes in each day, and 525,600 minutes in every year. It is common that the majority of us confess faltering to grip it. It is also evident that only a few of us have successfully made the best use of their time. We may wonder how those salts of earth have managed to do all these things. The answer is very simple. Those people have been able to figure out the best ways to manage their tasks in accordance with the available time. In fact, it is no miracle that we all can achieve that if we can achieve proper skills to conduct time management.
What Does Time Management Actually Mean?
Time management is actually a set of well-organized and deliberate actions that help us form good habits eliminating the bad ones, especially those ones that simply steal our time. We cannot simply consider time management as the plan to manage our tasks with the available time. It is mainly a great set of actions that help us overcome the issues that often fail us and make us lag behind. Only a properly designed management system for our time can show us the easiest ways to go ahead amid the burdens of heavy schedules and the pangs of multitasking.
The author designed the content to convey a proper understanding of time management, its benefits and the ways we can achieve time management skills with our own efforts. Following is the list of topics that this content deals with step-by-step:
Benefits of time management
What is our time worth or the determination of the value of our time
Identifying the time suckers and getting rid of them or creating a good schedule that works
Tools for success or time management tools
The best activities to do during our new found free time
Each of the sections comes with concise but relevant discussions to help readers get the most of it.
PART 1:
Benefits of Time Management
The units of measuring time are equal to people of all ages and classes ranging from the powerful administrators to the aimless vagabonds and from the children to the oldest people. So, why is there a difference in human beings regarding the ability to grip time or utilize it to our needs? There must be something that contributes to the proper utilization of time and materialization of our dreams and goals. In practice, very few people can attain the benefits of proper utilization of time as most people seem to fail or end up losing the battle of time. So, what is it? It is time management that has paved the way to success for those people.
What does time management signifies?
Many successful people often consider time to be the most valuable resource while others may say it is the most undervalued resource. In practice, the two attributes are the same. Time management refers to the process of not only managing time but also controlling the most precious or undervalued resource. Time management simply means managing an individuals living existence in relation to time. Time management consists of setting priorities, managing the situation and properly utilizing every moment to ones needs. Good time management emphasizes on the elimination of the time suckers. More precisely, forming habits and following strategies that just assist the utilization of time in accordance with ones day-to-day activities are the essence of time management.
An individual should always be up and doing in order to manage his or her time and to cope with the surroundings successfully. Successful time management ensures that the individual has control of his or her time. For uninterrupted maintenance of ones work, as well as personal life with near and dear ones, it is imperative that one should have a well thought time management plan. Flexibility and ability to quickly respond to any of the newly discovered opportunities can be in ones control if one concentrates not on how much time one finds, but on how one makes use of the available time.
Truths about time:
The concept of time management seems to be a misnomer due to its associated complexity as most people cannot manage their available time like the way they can manage other resources, such as finances, assets, manpower, information, authority, and so on. In view of experiences from our ancestors, it is almost evident that all of the above-mentioned resources can be augmented or enhanced, reduced or diminished, or transferred or controlled. It is time, which can hardly be manipulated and controlled as per our needs. Human beings can only manage themselves in relation to time.
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