TIME MANAGEMENT
The Rules of Time Management Club
If you found this lying in the office photocopier tray, please burn before reading
Working late one night at the office, you see a lone sheet of paper sitting in the photocopier out-tray. The smudged print reveals it to be a copy of a copy of a copy…
Some ancient decalogue, handed down since the dawn of drudgery, perhaps?
Hesitant, fearful, yet magnetically, mystically drawn to its lettering, you pick it up and begin to peruse its tenets…
#1 There is no such thing as time
OK, this is only partly true. Most of us, with the notable exception of my local bus company and renegade Philosophy professor Dr Sam Brown¹, accept the shared notion of time our species has developed over millennia.
But it is completely irrelevant to time management in a work context.
We don’t care about time at all, but what we can do with it. Time is just one factor to be multiplied by ‘amount of stuff you can get done in that particular block of time’, which will in turn result in ‘stuff done’. That’s all that concerns us.
It’s a bit like the way in English we get ‘power’ (the rate at which energy is…
