Each of us has 24 hours per day. What we do with them determines what we achieve with our lives.
When I say ‘time’, I am not referring to TIME as the concept defined in the dictionary as “the past, present and future regarded as a continuous whole”. In such a context, time is unlimited.
The time I am referring to here is the Currency of Life: each new day we are granted a new 24 hours. This time is a limited resource available only for that day. Whatever your dreams or your goals, whether you achieve absolutely depends on how you spend it each day.
Managing your time, which is an asset unique to you, would seem to be common sense, yet many people do not and cannot use this asset efficiently.
As the saying goes, either you run the day, or the day runs you.
What is awareness, and self-awareness and what do they have to do with managing your time and achieving something with that time?
Awareness relates to perceiving things as they really are; self-awareness is understanding your own internal factors that affect your perception of reality and consequently, the decisions you make.
In other words, self-awareness allows us to understand we have a measure of choice and control over what we are aware of, and it also means we appreciate that what we are unaware of controls us.
The good news is you are only limited by your lack of awareness of the knock-on effect on the choices you make in the reality of time available to you per day.
Would you like to know how some people always seem to have enough time, whilst others are persistently short of time?
Can you see the difference between managing your time and time management?
If you want to achieve success, you need to manage your time more efficiently with the right attitude to turn your dream or aspiration into reality.
This is not the same as conventional time management, which indicates you are a passive observer, a passenger remoulding the blocks of demands life throws at you, following some accepted principles or process.
Managing your time puts you in control because it means you understand who you are, and what you want to achieve within your asset that is Time, and it equals 24 hours per day – no more no less.
Thus, it means you can cut out the factors or prioritise activities/tasks that:
Could become overwhelming and sabotage your efforts to achieve success
Could cause anxiety or disappointment
Could cause you emotional stress that has the potential to develop into depression
Does eventually put you in control and helps improve your physical and mental wellbeing
So, can you now understand how you need to manage your time to achieve your goals and aspirations? And most importantly, how it can improve your health? ‘Very well physical + mind = wellbeing’ (Ducon).
Time is our most valuable asset. Once it’s gone, it’s gone forever and we do not get it back and because we do not get a bill for our time at the end of each day, week, or month, we can be rather careless in our use of it.
We cannot buy time, no matter who we are, no matter how rich we are, our personal time is the same. Twenty-four hours in a day, 86,400 seconds.
Time cannot be saved up. How often have we had a precious moment we wished to preserve forever and then it slips away? Because time is in perpetual motion. So, any time not spent wisely or put to good use is simply lost. Wasted.
Time cannot be stopped. You cannot ‘put the clock back’. If you are late, you are late.
So, how do we go about developing the self-awareness that will allow us to uncover our talent and achieve success? How do we go about developing the self-awareness that will ensure we transition from being someone persistently short of time to someone who has enough time?
Invest in yourself: to discover your hidden self, to understand yourself. Invest in yourself to gain a clear understanding of your behaviour; why you do something, or say something, and sometimes behave unexpectedly. Invest in yourself to understand the trigger that makes you do, say, or react a certain way. Ducon offers DISC PERSONLITY PROFILING life, and business coaching, and cognitive behavioural coaching which will empower you to efficiently manage the currency of your life – Time
Attitude: take charge of your personal life, your relationships, your business, your career. If you have the right attitude, you will be achieving 100% of what you want.
A – Action – 1%
T – Take responsibility – 20%
T – Turn fear to focus – 20%
I – Imitate excellence – 9%
T – Transform negatives into positives (weaknesses into strengths) – 20%
U – Uncover your hidden potentials/traits and sabotaging thoughts – 21%
D – Discover / explore and develop – 4%
E – Expect the unexpected – 5%
= 100% in total (The Coaching Academy)
Time will not wait for us to take control of our lives. How many times have we heard someone say, “I wish I’d done this years ago”?
Get off Someday Island: about 80% of people are residents of SOMEDAY ISLAND
Someday I’ll read that book
Someday I’ll attend that seminar or workshop or upscale my skills
Someday I’ll get help. Someday I’ll work on it.
Someday! Someday!! Someday!!!
They always have excuses or reasons for not doing what they have resolved to do. They are also surrounded by the same people.
Successful people (the 20%), don’t visit Someday Island. If they find themselves on the island, they get off quickly.
Decide today – not one more night on Someday Island. It is the greatest time-waster; it cripples your enthusiasm. It affects your confidence and your self-esteem; you feel weak or little inside. You may even begin to develop anxiety that may result in anticipatory anxiety or depression.
The saddest words ever written or uttered are “it might have been”. “What could have been”. “if only….”
SOME TIMELY THOUGHTS
“Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his/her present”. Roger Babson – entrepreneur & business theorist.
“Time is the coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you”. Carl Sandburg Writer & Poet
“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do much with it”. M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Travelled.
I, Janet, Ducon’s Founder, endeavour to inspire you: “Your greatest possession is your next 24 hours. How will you spend it? Will you allow television programmes, social media and apps, pointless e-mails, unimportant tasks, telemarketers, the wrong crowd, or other distractions to consume your day? Or will you take control of your time and make today yours? If you do not decide how your day will be spent, count on it – someone else will!”
Janet Conde specialises in personality behavioural profiling, developing the behaviours and language that build self-awareness and understanding of other people’s behaviour.
She also focuses on creating collaborative relationships and making change possible even when challenges seemed insurmountable.
