HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: Make Time for Time
Competency: time management
Who benefits: all of us
Consultant Usage: good check-up for clients of executive coaches, good review for time management and productivity trainers, probably also good for career counselors
What’s it about? Well here we are in the second week of the new year. Still working your goals (see last week’s Wednesday post)? Or are you struggling to find the time you need to bring about the changes forecast for the new You?
The good news for today is there is a short essay on the topic of You … and making time for what is really important.
Anthony K. Tjan in his internationally read Blog points out in a recent pithy post just how finite is our time. We have less, much less, available time than we think. Routine and unavoidable tasks take up large chunks of our 24 day. What is left determines the quality of our life. His essay focuses on our work life, but it doesn’t take much imagination to extend it to our personal life.
“An unexamined life isn’t worth living†is attributed to Socrates. Tjan would agree and in his article he provides five questions to examine our (mostly work) lives. It would be a great investment of 10 minutes in your life to read his post and note his five recommendations.Â
It would also be worth considerably more if you were to take time to consider those questions for yourself. Don’t just use up your time. Use your most precious gift and only non-renewable resource to bring fulfillment and meaningful results to your professional and personal life.Â
It is a new year. Make the most of it.
Catch you later.
Bill Bradley
Bill Bradley (mostly) retired after 35 years in organizational consulting, training and management development. During those years he worked internally with seven organizations and trained and consulted externally with more than 90 large and small businesses, government agencies, hospitals and schools.
