by JimRaffel on March 1, 2011
We don’t really manage time.
We make choices what to do with our time.
The clock stops for no one.
So, what we really need to manage is our choices.
Right now, you have chosen to read this blog and I thank you.
A few days ago, I chose to write this post instead of sitting back and reading a novel or napping on a flight from Milwaukee to Orlando.
When you decide to stay up late reading, watching TV or whatever it is you do and then not get enough sleep, how does that impact your next day?
See how that works? The clock will keep ticking the next day and you just won’t be at your best because of the choice made yesterday.
Try focusing on what you choose to do with your time; not on managing it.
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by JimRaffel on March 15, 2010
Commitment is turning my choice to deliver 31 blog posts in the month of March into reality.
Delivering 31 blog posts in the month of March has required a commitment to new priorities. I made a commitment to myself that writing every day is a priority for me. Reality set in and I realized there might be days I just can’t get a post out. I added reasonableness to the commitment by wording it as 31 posts in 31 days and not a post a day.
The blogging commitment has resulted in a dramatic increase in my creative thinking. This morning I looked through my list of topic ideas and none of them jumped out at me as needing to be written. Yesterday, however, I realized just how busy I am becoming. Without continuously improving my goals, choices, and priorities I will not be able to keep my commitments to my family and my work. Presto I have a topic for today!
Commitment is about sticking to it. Growing my business is a priority. Yesterday I realized that the combination of extensive travel and the additional commitment to social media had unintentionally lowered my priority on “paperwork.” I’m committed to my business so that had to change. I made a choice to stick to it all day yesterday and get as caught up as I could. The payoff was finding a significant business opportunity that can be followed up on and turned into cash flow fairly quickly.
The key is to turn those activities you are committed to into habits. Writing daily has become a habit and I have reached a point where not writing for a day would feel weird. This reminded me that last year I developed some regular habits with paperwork so it never got ahead of me. I’m going back to some of those habits starting today. The choice to return to those habits is consistent with my goal of being committed to having a successful business.
Writing is the doing part of thinking and by writing about goals for this post I have solidified some of my own thinking. Can you see how my commitment to writing is helping me grow my understanding of goals, choices, commitments and priorities?
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