5 Time Management Techniques to Win the Day

What stands between you and time management?

Eagerness.

We are eager to get started on our work. We love to get things done.

When we jump right in, we think we are being productive. But are we?

Imagine this scenario:

You asked me to help you move to a new house, and I agreed. We put everything into boxes. Later, we realize we need a truck.

Three hours later we find a truck. We load the boxes and furniture. At your new place, we empty the truck.

We realize we can’t remember what’s in each box. Which box goes in what room. We dump everything in one room.

Overwhelmed and after ten hours, we ask ourselves:

Why didn’t we book the truck first?

Why didn’t we label the boxes?

Why didn’t we hire the movers?

The root problem was our eagerness to start.

The same is true in our day-to-day time management. We are eager. We have many false starts.

Years of frustration taught me: ‘Plan and work are two separate things.’

The opposite of eagerness is patience. Planning with patience allows you to master time management.