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Life Management Skills
Find purpose
Think about what you want from your life. Your true goal is more profound than buying a nice car. What objective brings you a sense of joy, fun, and freedom? It could be providing for your family or being the best in your field.
Once you know what you really want, you start making progress towards it.
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Free time is not wasted time
As long as you interpret time management as a tool to connect your desired outcomes and the time available to you, free time may turn out to be much, much more productive than what you were doing b...
Time management thinking improves your other skills
- You learn to take your time and make calm, measured decisions rather than last minute, panicked choices.
- You also learn assertiveness as you delegate and say no to commitments, and patience as you manage your goals.
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Learning from others
- Success leaves clues. That's why we can learn from the habits and methods of successful individuals.
- Failure does, too. So we can learn from past mistakes.&n...
Productivity tools to consider: 🗒
- Create a schedule for your day and stick to it!
- Chunk: Group like tasks together into blocks of time, then focus on those specifics.
- RPM: Short for Results-oriented/Purpose-driven/Massive Action Plan: a system to uncover what you want and then reap the rewards.
- Harness the power of habit and productivity will become second nature.
Productivity defined
Being busy and always moving through tasks is not the same as being productive.
Productivity is getting the results you aim for with less time and effort. When you are productive, you won't be chasing deadlines or running behind schedule to get done. You'll probably be ahead of schedule.
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Goals provide structure to your work
... by giving you a prioritized list of things to get done.
They help you to identify your priorities, outline what you want to achieve when you want to ach...
Craig Jarrow
“By saying no, you are giving yourself the ability and bandwidth to say yes to the things that are more important.”
Matt Mayberry
“If you often find yourself run down by your daily workload or overwhelmed by the complexity of projects and tasks in your life, it is likely because you have not fully mastered effective time management.”