Managing and Prioritizing Your Time

by Meaning Ring on 2016/08/29

Managing your time is one-dimensional thinking. The limitation to this strategy, however, is that there is always more to do than we can ever have time for.
Prioritizing your time is developing the necessary ability to move one task in front of the others. While the value of this skill is more important than ever, we must realize that there is nothing about it that creates more time. It is simply borrowing time from one area of our life to focus on another to make sure the most important thing gets done first. It leaves us no strategy, though, for what to do with the remaining items that need to be completed.

There is no such thing as “time-management”; there is only self-management.
The existing constructs of time-management theory primarily offer us two solutions for creating more results in our life:
- Doing this faster (running)
- Perpetually reprioritizing tasks (juggling)
This lack of strategies often results in massive stress, anxiety, frustration, despair and eventually burnout.
“Priority Dilution” means falling victim to the “Tyranny of the Urgent,” which is always pulling us away from things that we know are important but somehow don’t demand our attention right now.

Is it possible to do things so fast that it will eventually give me the margin in my life that I desire, or should I seek another method?

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