Good Morning,
Have you noticed that the amount of stuff we can do at any given time is growing in number. We have more ways to distract ourselves today than ever before in the past. We can easily find ourselves volunteering to help others or join a non-profit organization. Then when we are in one, another cause comes up and we feel obligated to join it. Then someone sees how good you are at helping and asks you to take a leadership role. Then another group’s cause catches your interest and you find yourself signing up.
I am currently feeling pulled in many directions this summer. I have several groups I am involved in, some of very active and others not so, but one of them has become extremely time consuming while the others are ramping up. All of this while I am working on my Mom’s estate, selling a house and still moving into our new house, etc.. And there are other groups who are looking to sign me up. I had to turn down one group looking for my help, and step away from another. A few weeks ago I went fishing with my father in-law and now I want to fit in some fishing time as well. Oh yeah, and the kids are now going back to school.
We can get so involved that our time becomes scarce. At that point the little things we like to do, watch some TV, read, get on Facebook become distractions to all that we have committed for ourselves to do.
So how do we navigate these waters?
We can start a list.
Not a to do list, but a NOT To Do list.
By showing some restraint and having even a mental list of what NOT to do, we can free up some of our time. And this is important because we have little time available to us. It may seem like a lot, but time, unlike many things in life, cannot be RE-spent. Once it is used, it is gone.
Take it from such sources as Jim Collin’s “Good to Great” and Marcus Buckingham’s “The One Thing You Need to Know” that we can get a lot more accomplished if we learn to better monitor and control our use of time.
Do we need to join five different social or networking organizations? Do we need have to sign up for everything that we see on the internet? Do we have to go to every concert we see in town? Do we find ourselves running to the store or logging onto to the internet every time we see a cool commercial?
There is nothing wrong taking a day to relax and play video games, or watch DVDs, but if you get yourself committed to doing 10 different things at the same time, you will not have much chance to play or watch with much enjoyment. The more we have to do, the more we find ourselves torn to go in multiple different directions at the same time.
Our time is valuable, and let’s learn to better protect it, so we can do those things we like to do, when we feel like it.
Enjoy!
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