Time management – some practical options.

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Time management – some practical options.
M'reen Hunt

To find out how to establish your hierarchy of needs as mentioned in the previous article

scroll down the index on the left to hierarchy of needs as the single word ‘hierarchy’ is mentioned

in a number of articles thus demonstrating its importance.

To find out the validity of arguments between your heart and head and to bring them into full agreement as mentioned in the previous article go to www.innermindreading.blogspot.com 

and find How do I know if I have a problem and how big it is? This will help you find the sneakiest of blocks and block that block or why not eliminate it altogether with the other skills offered there?

Back to the blog below: Time Management and The Twitter Trap.

There seems to be some disagreement between the best times for tweeting, I’ve read between

1 and 5am local time and also the lunch period; however, if you are personally sending tweets 

then it is the best time for your physical, emotional and social health that is important.

So many people read and do not write down, that is record, their activity; yet it is an activity all the professionals advise – so why ignore it? Time management has many gremlins with various names

whether you are self employed or the employee it affects productivity and that is ‘the bottom line’. Resolving your procrastination, priorities, ‘can’t do’s’ and ‘don’t like’s’ or I’m not consciously aware 

that there is a problem, etc may need a few minutes work on a daily basis until all aspects are brought into line for your benefit.

As they say, ‘if you want something doing, ask a busy man’!

Just taking time off to stretch has so many benefits. You physically vitalise your body oxygenating your spine by puffing up the little disks between your vertebrae; oxygenating your brain by giving your little grey cells some R&R and importantly you rest your eyes. I have proved to myself that working for 20 minutes, standing up and patting your alternate knee with your hand or elbow brings both sides of your brain into an active working arrangement while giving your body a little workout and you a little laugh 

if you imagine someone watching you – a little laugh is worth emotional gold.

Who is your favourite film star, famous person or little laugh work out partner? Work with these great people from the present or past, dress up accordingly; Yogi Bear comes to mind, fun is the important factor. You will not lose concentration; in fact, if you have something really important or something that is going to take many hours your quality of work will be maintained throughout this period and improved as you will have had time to think and consider.

Now, having reminded myself I’ve cleaned off my white board and will create a timetable – how do you think an airport manages? My tweets need a scheduled flight, even the private plane has to wait!

A reward is mentioned. At the end of your working day send an email to a friend, have a reciprocal arrangement with a colleague and if no such is available post an energetic one (a thought one)

to someone important to you either personally important or to your business idol.

Your tasks have a tri-part schedule:

1.       What needs to be done now – today.

2.       What needs some active preparation for to-morrow.

3.       What needs thinking about for the future.

4.       What a forth? Yes, the stand up, the reward - the confirmation that you have succeeded.

5.       Thinking time. Build in down time, take the train as opposed to driving, take the scenic route, build in time to read some recreational magazines, go for a fresh air walk, or do whatever lets your mind drift without pressure. Not once or twice a week but built in on a daily basis.

6.       If you don’t charge the 3-5 minutes you need in down time as important                                    then question why you don’t value yourself or your activity.

If you find yourself creating numerous tick charts, then what are you preventing yourself from doing?

If something has value for you but takes far too long to complete and just lays there on the to-do pile (your accounts?) can you find an easier more time effective way to achieve your needs?

Is your important preparation work for the future giving value in the present?

That is do you spend enough time and effort earning money today and the rest of the week?

*Sometimes I see something during the day that will make a good future blog

so I stash it in a potential folder and I keep a minimum number of these on hand.

The trick is to ensure that this time is genuinely allocated to a planned and timed period.

Is it efficient to produce your own blogs? I’ll put this time in the enjoyment rating column.

I spend time shortening the lines to readable units rather than smartly justifying the lines.

Is this justifiable time or a perfectionist time waster? These are questions that need to be asked.

Find and Work on emotional blocks	Time taken to Post blog	Time to Review Tomorrow’s	Time Searching Future blogs	Break each 20 minutes	ENJOYMENT RATING
A very surprised YES!!! 09 minutes	09 minutes	07 minutes	*none	yes	2
YES!!! 20 minutes SUD 7>1	09		*none	yes	5
YES!!! 20 minutes SUD 3>0	14		*none	forgot!	4
xx None	forgot!	16	*none	yes	10 100% my work

A very surprised YES!!! Consciously I enjoy blogging; subconsciously I must have had some reservations.

SUD = Subjective Unit of Distress on a scale of 10 > 0. Issues come in many layers or have many aspects or components.

I needed to work on this again as I have embarked on a complete lifestyle change and am having to re-write my life script.

The explanations of my emotional work are not the object of this blog and can be found at www.innermindreading.blogspot.com

^xx That doesn’t mean I’m home free, there will be other issues in other areas that belong to my overall aims.

*I don’t believe that I can count this time as preparation work in the same way a photographer cannot count the hours and weeks

  spent waiting and preparing to catch a particular shot.

Perhaps you’d like to checkout my sister blog www.innermindreading.blogspot.com

and find easy, fast and efficient ways of working with the issues or little unpleasantness’s in your life.

I am now featuring aspects of my upcoming internet programme to teach Inner Mind Reading.