It’s that season where the clocks change, the skies are dark, and the wind grows cold. With the change of clocks and the change of season I examined what needed changed in my own life.
I went to a time management talk this week. It was a very good reminder of what to do when things get off track.
While I knew the steps to take to manage my own time, I let things slip. I fell into old habits. I wasn’t planning my time. I was working on auto-pilot, thinking I had done this for so long I could do it without a plan. Slowly distractions crept into my day without me taking notice of them. I wasn’t being efficient, and my free time was slipping into my work time without me recognizing the problem until I stepped back and examined my day, hour by hour.
I recommend that everyone take a time reset and examine their own activities in an objective manner. The talk was a reminder, a refresher course on planning and commitment. It was a reminder to take back control and be proactive on distractions, decisions, and activities. With a simple reset of my own time clock I am back to prioritizing, finishing my projects and actually having more free time to boot.
Are you planning your day, setting aside distractions? Are you procrastinating on anything? What things do you need to set time aside for and what things do you need to set a time limit to? Focus your time and it will focus your goals. A simple reset of one’s own clock can reset one’s life goals.
Katherine Senko 