7 laws of time management
We all know how most of us go ranting on about, “I don’t have enough time.” Deadlines are rushing in on us all the time. Procrastination is not a real thing. It is a myth. If someone wanted something really bad enough they would go out there and get it done. Case in point, if you told someone to be at the beach at 3 am the next day to receive a million💰and they believed it, they would be there by 2:40 am 😂🤣😅.
So, how do we make things that important to us? Through hacking our subconscious mind by setting goals to that effect. These written goals have to be S.M.A.R.T.(Smart Measurable Achievable Realistic and Time-bound).
Let us break down procrastination. Whenever we are doing one thing, there is something else we are not doing. We have to choose to do things that matter.
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion” - Perkinson Northcote. Time truly is money and they both correlate. The 7 laws for curing a lean purse(wallet) can be used to make our time more profitable.
1. A part of all you earn is yours to keep. Pay yourself first.
You have 24 hours in a day. Start by paying yourself first at least 10% which is 2 hrs and 24 minutes. Dedicate this time to your personal development as an individual. This encompasses body, mind, and spirit. Exercise for at least 30 minutes, read 10 pages of a good book not in your career such as 7 habits of highly effective people, think and grow rich, atomic habits, etc. Read for 1 hour in your profession each day. The top 20% in any field are usually the most learned in that field. Transform your ideal time such as while traveling into profitable time through listening to audiobooks and motivational audios such as by speakers such as Les Brown, Dr. Eric Thomas, and Tony Robbins.
2. Control your expenditure with a budget.
Plan your day in advance and account for each hour. You all know the saying, “If you fail to plan you are planning to fail.” Plan your day in advance the night before and focus on doing the high priority tasks first. This is based on advice from Brian Tracy’s book titled Eat That Frog.
3. Make your gold multiply.
Invest your time in profitable activities that encompass the high, priority tasks so as to free up room for leisure. Work when you work and play when you play. Live your life in tight air-spaced bubbles and be anxious for nothing always doing the best you can.
4. Guard your treasure against loss.
Guard your time against the killers of time by forfeiting short term pleasures to pursue long term goals. Life is a marathon, not a sprint. We all know the story about how the race ended between the tortoise and the hare. Slow and steady wins the race. P.U.S.H (Persevere Until Something Happens) as entailed in Dr. Cindy Trimm’s book of the same title.
5. Make of your dwelling a profitable investment
Provide an environment around you that facilitates learning. Also, learn your cycles and know what better suits you. Some people are nightcrawlers (very active and productive) from dusk till dawn and others are morning people who rise and shine before the sun graces us with the warm embrace of its rays.
6. Ensure a future income
Through always planning in advance, working on the hard, tasks fast, underpromising and overdelivering we provide a buffer for in case our plans do not go as planned to give us ample time to deal with emergencies. But if we, on the other hand, wait for the last minute to get things done, well, we all know how that ship sinks.
7. Increase your ability.
Here we discuss your own skills. By investing your time in skills that make you faster such as mastering rapid typing and increasing your proficiency in a particular stack, you make yourself save more time in the future by increasing your speed and spending less time debugging and refactoring your code.
