Diet and weight loss programs we all know have been on our minds now for decades. We spend billions in finding the right formulas in supplements, daily regime’s, and weight program’s to keep our bodies fit, attractive and healthy.
Recent research is showing a new and interesting idea of how living on a calorie reduced diet cannot only help you to lose those unwanted pounds but also prevents further aging and in some cases reverses aging.
Hundreds of people all over the world are pioneering in this research. The results have been phenomenal. The reports are showing eighty-six year old men having anti-aged to developing the bodies of young athletes in physical organs and stamina. Reports are clearly showing surges of increased energy with zero sick days. No flu bug, no cold, no cough, no asthma, nothing – and not just for a few days but since they started the program which in some cases is over 10 years. If this is accurate and true – it is exciting!
What I found truly fascinating was in the ability to adopt a life of calorie reduced living without having to be informed as to the details, the “how much” and learning the rules in association for implementing into one’s life. If we just learned to listen to ourselves we would be able to accomplish this on our own. It brings the Greek Philosophy of Know Thyself and To Thine Own Self Be True to life.
For example, in my recent article “How to Lose Weight & Get Fabulous Abs – Top 5 Things You Must Know”, I told you I was on a weight loss program and had lost inches and weight but I did not write how I had achieved my outcome. I accomplished my goal by simply reducing my calorie intake while not worry so much about the protein, fat or carb’s I was eating. Focusing only on reducing the amount of caloric intake became a simple reduction of calorie diet.
Like others, those who are on the calorie reduced diet for life program, which I seriously had no knowledge existed and I actually first came across to while listening to Dr. Oz on the Oprah show, I too had experienced phenomenal health, energy like I have never experienced before and major increased clarity of thinking. My inner and outer strength, increased self-esteem, which I had believed came from my exercise program, but after listening to those on the calorie reduced diet I realized my new found feeling of self actually came from the foods I was eating. I had even experienced corrective action on my vision – I no longer needed my glasses!
Imagine being 45 and feeling spry and flexible for the first time in your life. Finding yourself running, not jogging (and I never run!), and climbing stairs two at a time. Imagine having clarity of thought where you feel invincible and daring feeling ready to take on the world in the greatest of challenges! These are the gifts of the calorie reduced diet lifestyle.
What was I eating? What are the rules? Merely through coincidence and much by accident, I learned to listen to my body. I learned to hear what it really wanted from me. I started eating only veggies, nuts, fruits, yogurt, and drinking milk. No meat, no chicken, no fish, no processed food, and no sugar drinks, just the foods I thought nature intended for our body to process and I have to tell you my body loved it.
It was only by accident I had found myself on the same page as those who had purposely chosen to live a calorie reduced diet for life. The only rules seem to be no processed or packaged foods, no meat, and to keep your calorie intake to about 1600 calories a day (more if you want to lose weight).
For those living a calorie reduced life program they are committed to results because it is an anti-aging concept they believe in is working for them. With reduced calories, and eating the right foods, the brain purportedly has the time to correct the deficits of the body. Focusing on optimizing the proper requirements each of us needs individually.
Many people are claiming their vision is back to 20 – 20 from having to wear glasses. Doctor’s are reporting younger internal organs from aging recipients. Dr. Oz states those on the reduced calorie diets can expect to live now for 150 years. How is that for anti-aging without costing you a dime!
You can see the benefits are amazing:
1. Increased Energy
2. Increased Vision
3. Increased Organ Function.
4. Decreased Aging
5. Increased Mental Processing
Is it worth looking into further? You decide. One Life. Your Life. Your Choices.
For more info on personal development go to: www.StrategicSelfManagement.com
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Strategic Self-Management: Part 1 – 3 Critical Factors to Great Time Management
When time management tools were first implemented, their principal benefit was they promoted tracking of our appointments or commitments. As the demands for our time increased, time management tools also increased in their functionality.
Today they assist in managing long-term objectives (goals) while strategically managing day-to-day priorities. The most important purpose is to allow you to monitor and measure your activities to ensure you achieve your expected outcome.
Most people utilize their current time management system solely for tracking appointments with a reminder of their daily activities. The problem with this is in most cases your system becomes a glorified to do list with the potential of a lot of duplication.
It requires you to transfer items not completed on your daily schedule. This continuous writing forward fools the psyche into believing it is working harder than it actually is. It creates feelings of frustration when we do not complete all the tasks we set before us. We also run the risk of forgetting to transfer the unfinished task.
The greatest risk is utilizing this method is the danger of losing the information. It is a well-known fact that success is in the details so you want to ensure your system has adequate tracking in place with the least amount of effort on your part. To aid you, many software companies have developed electronic time tracking tools to keep all your information grouped into one location, easily allowing you accessibility without having to duplicate your efforts.
Electronic systems do take a bit of time to get used to as most of us are visual learners and thus require the need to be able to see the details spread out. Electronic systems can also be more time consuming as they require you to have access to it at all times. This becomes a bit of a challenge when you are out on appointments or away from your desk. Even if you have a hand held organizer, have you have noticed the expression on the faces of people as you are trying to enter your information. Pen and paper is still a lot faster and easier.
In order to maximize your effectiveness within your own system, it is important to understand that you cannot manage time, only your activities in relation to time. This system then, instead of being a time management system is looked upon as a project management system.
To get the most out of your system why not try adding an Item’s To Do Journal and a Project Management Journal. These are the two easiest beginning tools to incorporate, regardless if you use electronic or a manual time tools, especially if you are serious about taking more control of your goals. Use them to make certain you can monitor and measure both your long term and short-term goals amongst your daily requirements.
The three Critical Factors of a great time management are:
1. A Time Management Day Planner: Utilizing a time management system, which incorporates a scheduler, an individual To Do Journal and a Project Management Journal? By prioritizing your appointments, goals, and non-related tasks, you have a greater chance of holding yourself accountable to tight deadlines.
2. Holding Weekly Reviews with Yourself: A weekly review will allow you to focus on transferring any details, which may be unresolved from the previous week. It also allows you to determine if you accomplished what you set out to do. Some questions to ask yourself are, “Did I accomplish my number one priority this week? Did I accomplish my #1 personal goal? If not, why not? What did I learn this week? What can I do better? The clearer your questions, the easier it is to come up with new activities to challenge yourself to grow.
3. Updating Accountable/Measurable Tracking Systems: The sure success of any great plan is in direct proportion to the tracking systems put in place. This allows for flexibility of change and correction anywhere along the implementing of your goal. So let us say your personal goal is to read 12 books this year. Do you have a record of where you can track these to ensure you are indeed accomplishing your goal? If you were working a sales or financial goal – do you have an excel spreadsheet to track your results?
Good time management principals come easy with practice. Have fun with it and know it is all for your success!
For a free sample template of the Strategic Self Management Item’s To Do Journal email giveityourall.mvw@gmail.com with Free ITDJ Template.
Ingenuity in Green Recycling : 5 Things You Can Do Today to Take Control
For more information on how to receive your free Plant Water Bottle go to: giveityourall.mvw@gmail.com ,
Today living the green life is much more than just recycling metal cans and paper. It’s the revolution against the water bottle.
Did you know?
• Nearly $11 Billion worth of bottle water ends in landfills, which may never be broken down?
• Only 1 of these 5 bottles ends up being recycled? The rest end up in our landfills or worse yet clogging up our lakes, rivers, and fields.
• 20 Billion single bottles will end up in these landfills
• It can take up to 1,000 years for a bottle to bio-degrade
• It takes 1.5 million barrels of oil (more then what fuels 100,000 cars per year) just to meet the US demand for water. Fill up a water bottle with 1/3 oil and you can see what was used just to make the bottle you are holding.
• It costs more money to drink bottle water than to put gas in your car – up to five times more, because of the energy, packaging and transportation costs. (Source: Earth Policy Institute)
• We drink over 65 million bottles of water in Toronto alone!
A company called I.A.M. Consulting Services has come up with a DO IT NOW Solution to help to give some of these bottles a second chance at reaching the recycling program. In their program of taking recycled bottles and producing useable goods they have developed a product called the Plant Water Bottle system.
It is a beautifully decorated bottle with a specially designed slow release flow tube cap providing a self-watering system for your plants. It operates on the function of the oxygen which is released in the soil when the soil dries. When the soil is dry it releases this oxygen which goes through the uniquely designed cap allowing your plants simply take the water when they need it.
These plant water recycling containers are fantastic not only for times when you are away, but also great for your slower drinking plants. You don't have to stand their waiting or deal with the over spills from trying to hurry it along. It's also ideal for those hard to reach plants and a real time saver for those always needing water, balcony and patio plants.
Inside each bottle is a little note explaining the problems we are incurring with plastics today and a recipe for fertilizing your plants. They even suggest using your veggie water, eggshells, or tea bags by keeping a pitcher of water, letting it stand for a day or two, and then filling your water bottle with this fertilizer to feed your plants. Definitely a unique take of taking a damaging left over waste product and turning it back into something useful and practical.
How you participate is when the water bottle is tired and ready to go to the garbage you simply take the cap off and throw the empty bottle into the recycle bin. You can keep the cap and put it on another bottle. Now they believe the bottle is where it should have been in the first place!
I.A.M. is offering the bottles, free, but you do have to pay for the shipping/handling costs. If you are interested in helping I.A.M. Consulting Services with their goal of recycling, 1,000,000 bottles simply email: giveityourall.mvw@gmail.com and put FREE Plant Water Bottle in the subject line. They will send you an email on how you can receive it.
Another company trying to achieve a better way in dealing with plastic is Chris Rapp, CEO of Keystone LLC, produces water bottles primarily made of corn. Maybe we can purchase our water, if we need to, in this format.
Here is what others are doing to make their impact of change.
Maude Barlow, a Canadian, is campaigning hard to remove the sale of bottled water in Canada. With a ban approved in London, Ontario, you can see others are working hard in assisting to one day being water bottle free. Any ideas for juice, pop or lemonade bottles?
David de Rothschild, is building a plastic boat called the Plastiki, to sail around the largest garbage build up in the ocean to start to bring awareness to the real problems we are facing.
Toronto alone recycled 65 million bottles working hard to increase and develop its recycling programs. You can participate by voicing concerns about bottle water programs to those heading programs in your community.
In the mean time, what can you actively do to help?
• Find a re-usable drinking container for your water needs. We buy bottled water for convenience and because of healthy alternatives to soft drink beverages. Experts recognize most bottled water is simply tap water in disguise, and in some cases actually contain harmful chemicals. This is a little known fact as bottled water is unregulated.
• If you do purchase bottled drink – why not make sure the bottle is biodegradable. It only takes a minute to check.
• If you see a bottle on the ground, in open fields, or simply not where it should be, why not pick it up and throw it in the recycle bin.
• Make sure your recycled bottles have had the caps removed. For some reason, still unknown, if the cap is on it ends up in the landfill. Recycle companies will not pay the labor to remove the cap.
• Re-use your current bottles. Boil water to remove the taste of the chlorine or use a Brita water filter system.
Together we can make a difference.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Strategic Self Management: Motivation 1 : Recession 0
by Marianne Van Weezep
Throughout history, man has been studying motivational training but to date motivation is still a very complex and misunderstood word. We easily go from an energy state of high motivation to spiraling into a total realm of negativity just based upon the information we receive, whether it is verbal or non-verbal.
We can be highly charged and energized one minute and feel flat and deflated the next by this outside stimuli. For example sending out our resumes searching for a job we feel we are perfectly fit to accomplish but upon hearing a negative response or no response we can easily fall into the psychological state of panic.
We can develop thoughts of worry (What if I can’t get a job? What if nobody hires me?). We can develop the fear of the unknown (How will I pay my mortgage? How will I care for my children?). Loss of motivation based upon an outside event triggering our raw emotions thus interfering in our ability to move forward.
Perhaps we have a great business idea only to find looks of disbelief by family and friends who have underrated our talents, skills, and abilities immediately throwing us back into the state of uncertainty and feelings of inadequacies from the discouragement of lack of support. Either way easily influenced by society making it particularly difficult to maintain our self-motivation.
Each of us must determine our own level of motivation based upon previous life conditioning and experiences in order for us to remain in control. For this reason alone, we must look inside for what we want for our true selves.
“Know thyself” the Greek Philosophy and “to thine own self be true” are statements that have been around for centuries and are powerful in assisting in reminding us to identify what inner form of spirit we could rely on to develop our life long goals. It is evident nobody can do the work for you so determining your inner yearning is of utmost importance! After all, it is your life, your thoughts, your motive, your reason.
Forms of motivation include working for pay raises, building dream homes, raising a healthy family, working for the good of humankind, investment, self-employment, higher learning, respect, integrity, credibility. The list and reasons for why we do things is endless and requires deep internal processing by each of us in order for us to sustain our drive of personal action.
During the trying times it is critical we protect ourselves from the onslaught of negativity. We must instead force ourselves to focus on identifying what we want, why we want it and what we need to do in order to get there as this is the difference between whether we will increase our energy towards the accomplishment of our deepest desires or not. This is the critical key. It is our desires not others.
The good news is self-motivation is clearly that. It is the self. It is you. It is your thought energy. The only true power you hold in this world is by your thoughts. You are the provider of your perception.
It is your responsibility to provide action towards your goals from the motive of reason determined by you. It is your motive for action, which will drive and sustain you through the difficult times in your life. Motivation is merely your thought energy, your reason for being which in turn shifts into physical action.
So how do you self-motivate in times of recession? How do you go on with your dreams and your life when your home is about to be for-closed on, or you find yourself lacking in a job, perhaps your spouse has left or any other major life altering event due to the recession? How do you cope with the additional burden of job responsibility with the cutbacks and having to do two jobs in place of one?
First, you have to come to terms with how you feel about what is occurring. You have to allow your emotions to go through the cycle of healing. If you do not take this vital time at some point later you will find what you suppressed will be expressed in the least opportune time. Go ahead and feel bad now. Try not to struggle with it just feel your emotions.
Take the necessary time to deal with these sentiments. It is okay to be angry, disappointed, scared, depressed, numb, anxious, worried, fearful, or any other emotion you are feeling. It should tell you, you are alive!
Give yourself all the time you need to sort through your challenges. The important part is that you work through the emotions yourself so that you come to terms with it and come out with a clearer understanding as to what you really want.
Be vigilant of your surroundings to prevent from being, unduly influenced by others for when we are at a low emotional state, we are at a very high level of sensitivity for influence. We must take care that the choices we make in our lives are truly ours and not for the satisfaction or gratification of others.
Another critical key is to separate yourself from others viewpoints while identifying new strategies for your future. Redefining your own motivation based upon your own individuality. At this stage, if you rely too heavily on the influence of others, you run the risk of living your life as others would see for you instead of living the life pre-determined by you.
Try taking long walks, meditating, or simply sitting with your worries and staring into space. Silence will help you to identify what is truly important to you in your life. It will help you to clear some of the ghosts, which no longer work for you. Sit as quiet as you can until you start to hear the strength of your own internal voice guiding you in a more positive direction.
What you will experience is your real self. You will hear your own words telling you what you really want in your life. Take care to be gentle with yourself and allow yourself the opportunity to explore these ideas. Go ahead and write down anything you feel has value to you. You will soon see a pattern begin to emerge.
Soon you will find one of your ideas will create a spark of excitement in the form of renewed energy within you. Follow this idea and learn as much as you can. Do everything humanly possible to learn everything you can about it. By doing this you are fueling the embers of a fire stirring deep within and suddenly you know what you have to do and why you are doing it.
Once this has occurred you are ready to kick yourself in the butt and start back into life. You will find your focus will attract to you everything you need to accomplish your vision.
I have personally found it extremely helpful to start an exercise program at this point. I find exercise helps to strengthen against attacks of negativity, which can greatly drain the young fresh spiritual ideas you are developing.
By implementing a solid exercise program into your life, you increase oxygen to your brain allowing for increased focus, concentration, and stamina for your new founded ideas to take shape.
Add to it vitamins and a nutritional program and you are now ready to run 24/7 inspired with high energy and ready to realize your new dreams. As you take your life back into control, you feel a powerhouse of energy develop within you. This is motivation!
Throughout history, man has been studying motivational training but to date motivation is still a very complex and misunderstood word. We easily go from an energy state of high motivation to spiraling into a total realm of negativity just based upon the information we receive, whether it is verbal or non-verbal.We can be highly charged and energized one minute and feel flat and deflated the next by this outside stimuli. For example sending out our resumes searching for a job we feel we are perfectly fit to accomplish but upon hearing a negative response or no response we can easily fall into the psychological state of panic.
We can develop thoughts of worry (What if I can’t get a job? What if nobody hires me?). We can develop the fear of the unknown (How will I pay my mortgage? How will I care for my children?). Loss of motivation based upon an outside event triggering our raw emotions thus interfering in our ability to move forward.
Perhaps we have a great business idea only to find looks of disbelief by family and friends who have underrated our talents, skills, and abilities immediately throwing us back into the state of uncertainty and feelings of inadequacies from the discouragement of lack of support. Either way easily influenced by society making it particularly difficult to maintain our self-motivation.
Each of us must determine our own level of motivation based upon previous life conditioning and experiences in order for us to remain in control. For this reason alone, we must look inside for what we want for our true selves.
“Know thyself” the Greek Philosophy and “to thine own self be true” are statements that have been around for centuries and are powerful in assisting in reminding us to identify what inner form of spirit we could rely on to develop our life long goals. It is evident nobody can do the work for you so determining your inner yearning is of utmost importance! After all, it is your life, your thoughts, your motive, your reason.
Forms of motivation include working for pay raises, building dream homes, raising a healthy family, working for the good of humankind, investment, self-employment, higher learning, respect, integrity, credibility. The list and reasons for why we do things is endless and requires deep internal processing by each of us in order for us to sustain our drive of personal action.
During the trying times it is critical we protect ourselves from the onslaught of negativity. We must instead force ourselves to focus on identifying what we want, why we want it and what we need to do in order to get there as this is the difference between whether we will increase our energy towards the accomplishment of our deepest desires or not. This is the critical key. It is our desires not others.
The good news is self-motivation is clearly that. It is the self. It is you. It is your thought energy. The only true power you hold in this world is by your thoughts. You are the provider of your perception.
It is your responsibility to provide action towards your goals from the motive of reason determined by you. It is your motive for action, which will drive and sustain you through the difficult times in your life. Motivation is merely your thought energy, your reason for being which in turn shifts into physical action.
So how do you self-motivate in times of recession? How do you go on with your dreams and your life when your home is about to be for-closed on, or you find yourself lacking in a job, perhaps your spouse has left or any other major life altering event due to the recession? How do you cope with the additional burden of job responsibility with the cutbacks and having to do two jobs in place of one?
First, you have to come to terms with how you feel about what is occurring. You have to allow your emotions to go through the cycle of healing. If you do not take this vital time at some point later you will find what you suppressed will be expressed in the least opportune time. Go ahead and feel bad now. Try not to struggle with it just feel your emotions.
Take the necessary time to deal with these sentiments. It is okay to be angry, disappointed, scared, depressed, numb, anxious, worried, fearful, or any other emotion you are feeling. It should tell you, you are alive!
Give yourself all the time you need to sort through your challenges. The important part is that you work through the emotions yourself so that you come to terms with it and come out with a clearer understanding as to what you really want.
Be vigilant of your surroundings to prevent from being, unduly influenced by others for when we are at a low emotional state, we are at a very high level of sensitivity for influence. We must take care that the choices we make in our lives are truly ours and not for the satisfaction or gratification of others.
Another critical key is to separate yourself from others viewpoints while identifying new strategies for your future. Redefining your own motivation based upon your own individuality. At this stage, if you rely too heavily on the influence of others, you run the risk of living your life as others would see for you instead of living the life pre-determined by you.
Try taking long walks, meditating, or simply sitting with your worries and staring into space. Silence will help you to identify what is truly important to you in your life. It will help you to clear some of the ghosts, which no longer work for you. Sit as quiet as you can until you start to hear the strength of your own internal voice guiding you in a more positive direction.
What you will experience is your real self. You will hear your own words telling you what you really want in your life. Take care to be gentle with yourself and allow yourself the opportunity to explore these ideas. Go ahead and write down anything you feel has value to you. You will soon see a pattern begin to emerge.
Soon you will find one of your ideas will create a spark of excitement in the form of renewed energy within you. Follow this idea and learn as much as you can. Do everything humanly possible to learn everything you can about it. By doing this you are fueling the embers of a fire stirring deep within and suddenly you know what you have to do and why you are doing it.
Once this has occurred you are ready to kick yourself in the butt and start back into life. You will find your focus will attract to you everything you need to accomplish your vision.
I have personally found it extremely helpful to start an exercise program at this point. I find exercise helps to strengthen against attacks of negativity, which can greatly drain the young fresh spiritual ideas you are developing.
By implementing a solid exercise program into your life, you increase oxygen to your brain allowing for increased focus, concentration, and stamina for your new founded ideas to take shape.
Add to it vitamins and a nutritional program and you are now ready to run 24/7 inspired with high energy and ready to realize your new dreams. As you take your life back into control, you feel a powerhouse of energy develop within you. This is motivation!
Strategic Self-Management System – 8 Powerful Reason’s to Manage Your Time
By Marianne Van Weezep
What does it take to stay ahead in a fast paced, recessionary time? Where multi-tasking has become the keyword fundamental to any great resume in the market place. Where job demands far exceed the regular boundaries of what used to seem practical for an honest day’s work and where the line-ups for these jobs today are reaching thru borders?
In today’s fast moving economy, it has become more important than ever to begin the discovery of how you can increase your productivity through wise time management principles. These age old practices, with a twist of incorporating the advancements of technology with the primary goal of helping you to be the best that you can be.
The primary focus in good time management programs is to assist you in how you can maximize your effectiveness by utilizing the 20% that brings you 80% of your results while identifying and eliminating the 80% time waster’s which bears you no fruit. It is about working smarter, not harder.
The key elements of understanding good time management principles is in first being aware you cannot manage time, but you can manage your activities in relation to time. In order to do this well, bearing in mind you are seeking to identify the 20% of your activities bearing 80% results, you must first go through the strategic planning stage (also known as goal setting) to identify the what, where, when, why and how behind your plan.
Some very important questions you must resolve are (and this is just the beginning): What do you want to do? Why are you doing it? What do you need in order to succeed? What are your long-term priorities? How does this fit with what you are doing today? How will you accomplish your plan? Did you include your family, financial and physical goals?
Developing strong goals allows you to manage your daily schedule to priorities rather than from never-ending, reactionary day-to-day activities. It allows you to control the path you choose to take for your life. It allows you to monitor and measure your success and adjust when necessary.
Questions you will be able to identify are did you accomplish what you set out to do? Did you remain focused on your goal? If not, why not? It will be far easier to respond to these questions when a strong accountability system has been included in the measurement of your goals.
The eight most powerful benefits you receive from increased time management skills include:
1. Increased Focus and Concentration – you are steadfastly working towards your pre-determined, worthwhile goals on a regular, consistent basis.
2. Increased Delegation Skills – you are able to delegated by tracking details of who, what, when and how long so you can inspect what you expect.
3. Increased Personal Self-Esteem – with every new task completed, as you feel yourself moving towards your chosen priorities, as you get closer to reaching the tasks you have before you, you feel a real level of personal achievement. Your belief in yourself grows.
4. Managing Your Priorities to Your Activities – When day to day reactionary activities come up, you will be able to deal with them on a more proactive basis, eliminating the negative energy of stress as you quietly incorporate the additional tasks alongside your longer term goals.
5. Increased Communication – You will be able to confidently, and clearly communicate the time line of when the priority, goal, or task is to be completed. You will be able to communicate if your goal requires others assistance, or has challenges or obstacles which require time to work through. This will increase not only your ability to communicate but command trustworthiness as well.
6. Higher Levels of Overall Productivity – with a clearly out lined plan (or schedule) our days tend to go smoother. We know exactly what is required and can tackle each item with optimism going through our days with routine precision, focusing on doing the best on each of the chosen activities. Our attitudes will be more relaxed because we are clear of our own expectations.
7. Saving of Resources – When we are clear as to the priority of the task, we stay on budget as we know exactly what we need and why. We save endless resources by preventing duplication in any form.
8. Higher Levels of Accomplishment through Clear, Concise Goals – our accomplishments increase with every new task we complete. Our internal drive (our motivation) energized as we recognize our own ability of being able to do exactly what we set out to do.
We achieve many additional benefits when we remain focused on managing our time to the high pay-off activities in our lives. Strive hard to stand above the crowd and continue to develop your skills of mastering your time through strategic planning. It is your life, one life, live it well.
Good luck and God Bless
Email: giveityourall.mvw@gmail.com for more info regarding the Strategic Self Management System.
What does it take to stay ahead in a fast paced, recessionary time? Where multi-tasking has become the keyword fundamental to any great resume in the market place. Where job demands far exceed the regular boundaries of what used to seem practical for an honest day’s work and where the line-ups for these jobs today are reaching thru borders?
In today’s fast moving economy, it has become more important than ever to begin the discovery of how you can increase your productivity through wise time management principles. These age old practices, with a twist of incorporating the advancements of technology with the primary goal of helping you to be the best that you can be.
The primary focus in good time management programs is to assist you in how you can maximize your effectiveness by utilizing the 20% that brings you 80% of your results while identifying and eliminating the 80% time waster’s which bears you no fruit. It is about working smarter, not harder.
The key elements of understanding good time management principles is in first being aware you cannot manage time, but you can manage your activities in relation to time. In order to do this well, bearing in mind you are seeking to identify the 20% of your activities bearing 80% results, you must first go through the strategic planning stage (also known as goal setting) to identify the what, where, when, why and how behind your plan.
Some very important questions you must resolve are (and this is just the beginning): What do you want to do? Why are you doing it? What do you need in order to succeed? What are your long-term priorities? How does this fit with what you are doing today? How will you accomplish your plan? Did you include your family, financial and physical goals?
Developing strong goals allows you to manage your daily schedule to priorities rather than from never-ending, reactionary day-to-day activities. It allows you to control the path you choose to take for your life. It allows you to monitor and measure your success and adjust when necessary.
Questions you will be able to identify are did you accomplish what you set out to do? Did you remain focused on your goal? If not, why not? It will be far easier to respond to these questions when a strong accountability system has been included in the measurement of your goals.
The eight most powerful benefits you receive from increased time management skills include:
1. Increased Focus and Concentration – you are steadfastly working towards your pre-determined, worthwhile goals on a regular, consistent basis.
2. Increased Delegation Skills – you are able to delegated by tracking details of who, what, when and how long so you can inspect what you expect.
3. Increased Personal Self-Esteem – with every new task completed, as you feel yourself moving towards your chosen priorities, as you get closer to reaching the tasks you have before you, you feel a real level of personal achievement. Your belief in yourself grows.
4. Managing Your Priorities to Your Activities – When day to day reactionary activities come up, you will be able to deal with them on a more proactive basis, eliminating the negative energy of stress as you quietly incorporate the additional tasks alongside your longer term goals.
5. Increased Communication – You will be able to confidently, and clearly communicate the time line of when the priority, goal, or task is to be completed. You will be able to communicate if your goal requires others assistance, or has challenges or obstacles which require time to work through. This will increase not only your ability to communicate but command trustworthiness as well.
6. Higher Levels of Overall Productivity – with a clearly out lined plan (or schedule) our days tend to go smoother. We know exactly what is required and can tackle each item with optimism going through our days with routine precision, focusing on doing the best on each of the chosen activities. Our attitudes will be more relaxed because we are clear of our own expectations.
7. Saving of Resources – When we are clear as to the priority of the task, we stay on budget as we know exactly what we need and why. We save endless resources by preventing duplication in any form.
8. Higher Levels of Accomplishment through Clear, Concise Goals – our accomplishments increase with every new task we complete. Our internal drive (our motivation) energized as we recognize our own ability of being able to do exactly what we set out to do.
We achieve many additional benefits when we remain focused on managing our time to the high pay-off activities in our lives. Strive hard to stand above the crowd and continue to develop your skills of mastering your time through strategic planning. It is your life, one life, live it well.
Good luck and God Bless
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