Too Much Time, Not Enough To Do?

“It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?”  Henry David Thoreau

HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER

Title: Managing Your Time

Competencies: self development; self control

Who benefits: you

Consultant Usage: background material for coaches and trainers

What’s it about? Ha!  According to blogger Peter Bregman, no person in the business world has ever said “I have too much time on my hands.”  Most of us search desperately for more time.

Today I am going to continue my January pattern of addressing common commitments made early in a new year, aka New Year’s Resolutions.  Today I am taking time to write about “time” … that elusive resource that is the one and only finite resource.  When it’s gone, its gone.

So is being a better manager of time on your new year’s to-do list?  If so, start with the aforementioned Peter Bregman’s posting “An 18-Minute Plan for Managing Your Day”.

Want more?  Move over to blogger Bronwyn Fryer posting “Manage Your Time Like Jim Collins”.  Jim Collins, as you may recall, is the author of Built to Last, Good to Great, and most recently How the Mighty Fall.  He is a self-described time disciplinarian and the post makes for mighty interesting reading, even if not everything applies to you and I.

Finally, maybe it is your energy you need to manage more than your time.  I have twice suggested The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal and do so again if it helps you with your resolutions.  (By the way, this book is a prototypical self-help book and may not be to everyone’s liking.)

One good way to manage time is to write less, say more.  With that in mind, I won’t take up any more of your time.

Catch you later.

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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.