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Control Your Time—It's Your Choice By Tom Reilly Time is our most precious and fleeting resource. We never have enough yet we have all that there is. This is the time management paradox. Do you run your territory or does your territory run you? Do you attack your day or does your day attack you? Are you in control of how you use your time? Most of what happens to you is something over which you have control. Most of what happens is the result of choice, not chance—the decisions you make and the actions you take. Successful time managers control their days as much as possible. They live the philosophy, "If it is to be, it's up to me." Unsuccessful time managers go through their days by accident. Being in control of your time is starting the day with this question, "What do I want to accomplish today?" Being out of control is beginning your day with the attitude, "Okay phone, ring. Tell me world, what am I supposed to do today?" There are things in your life that you control and things over which you have little or no control. A simple rule of thumb is to spend time and energy in proportion to the amount of control you have. Those things over which you have maximum control demand more focus and energy on your part. Things over which you have little or no control deserve less focus and energy. Time management is something over which you have significant control. You have a choice as to how you want to invest your time during the day. You can invest it in goal-achieving activities or squander it on non-productive tasks. It is your choice. Tom Reilly is a professional speaker and author of VALUE ADDED TIME MANAGEMENT. Available on CD at www.TomReillyTraining.com |
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