It’s Time to Take Control Of Your Time

A lot of people think that time management is about doing more things faster, and then even more things even faster. Well, that obviously sounds exhausting—which is why many of us eventually give up trying to seriously manage our time and instead exist in a constant state of worry, guilt and last-minute reaction.

Then there are those who believe good time management is about being busy, or looking busy or feeling busy! Always having something to do, or something to worry about doing. Always checking their calendar, their Notion projects and notifications.

But the irony is that time management is not about doing more, faster—not at all.

Stop Being Busy, Start Living a Productive Life

The average human life is roughly 4,000 weeks long. So, when you’re planning what to do this week, you’re actually planning how to live a small chunk of your life.

Most of us don’t really have a plan. We have a long list of errands, commitments and things we forgot to do last week.

We run around trying to respond to whatever appears on our radar, and more often than not, we fall short of getting it all done. After all, we’re human.
Eventually, we start to feel like we’re running out of weeks.

Time Management is About Doing Less, Not More!

When we don’t proactively manage our time, we end up doing last-minute stuff that needed to be done yesterday instead of heading out to the beach on a sunny day.

Meanwhile, people who manage their time well get more time to relax, enjoy life and spend time with family and friends—or on a hobby they love.

Here is a good indicator that you’re managing your time well: when you know clearly what truly matters and you can confidently refuse to do the other stuff.
When you can slow down, relax, and take a break and feel absolutely no guilt about it. Not because there’s nothing left to do, there always will be! But because even your down time is part of your productivity management.

Think about time as the real currency you have in life.

Forget about dollars and euros. Think about every week of your life as a certain amount of currency. What you spend it on should reflect what you really want to get out of life.

Everything you want from life—whether it’s that flashy sports car, a promotion at work or an amazing relationship with that special someone—requires an investment of time.

So you’ve got to decide what it is you want out of life and then be willing to pay the price. If you’re squandering your life currency—your time—on irrelevant things, that leaves very little to invest in the things you really want.

The First Step Towards Managing Our Time is to Decide To!

Make the decision to NOT let circumstances, emergencies, endless requests, or errands run your life.

It’s your life, and you’ve got to decide how to live it, how to enjoy it and what to accomplish with it.