If your knowledge of music from the 80’s is low, it should be hard for you to know what follows the title. So for the sake of our post, let’s imagine that you know the song “TIME” from the group “Alan Parsons Project”. Meaning that you know that the words “To The Sea” is at the end of our sentence.
Time, keeps flowing like a river… To the sea. Nothing too mysterious or philosophical about this. Time, ever moving (like the water of a river) have a final destination (the sea) that means the end of its cycle. At this point the water from the river just like time is lost into something bigger. Yes, time won’t stop to wait for us and if you want to use (drink) some of the water, you better do it while you can. Because by the time (no pun intended) it gets to the sea, you won’t be able to drink it as it will be salty water.
Half of this post is done and you just got a longer version of “Time, you use it or you lose it”. But don’t consider this as a lost of your “Time”, just a reminder that even a beautiful songs from Alan Parsons Project will tell you about this valuable resource and that is such a waste not to put it to good use. Now for that purpose, let me show you a technique that I am using.
There are some things that I am struggling to give them time. I was seeing weeks go by and by the end of each week, the amount of time used in each “Topic” was less. So I got this idea of thinking of these things that I want to do as “Subjects” from a college class, where each subject have a number of credits (hours per week). The more the credits, the more important was time for the subject.
Going on with our example: You want to follow up on your Language learning (Italian), you want to work on the good habit of reading, you want to go to the Gym and finally, you want to do some Meditation. So based of the importance that you assign to your subjects, you end with: Italian (2), Gym (4), Meditation (2), Reading (3). For the last step, assign to each task a date and a time AND give to that date and time the same respect that you would give to any subject of your college education. Always keep your selection in a visible place so you don’t forget and follow thru. Remember that Clarity is Power, the more that you define your daily goals, the more chances that your brain engage in a way to make the time and remember not to skip these important “College Subjects”.
Thank you for reading and now go and work on your schedule.
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