Category: Awakening

Have you ever thought that you don’t have time to do everything you have to do? Would you like the day to have more than 24 hours?

If you want to achieve greater effectiveness in life, a proper way to handle projects, priorities, schedules and interruptions is essential.

Today there are two things that we all use on our cell phones: the calendar and the alarm. The important thing is to learn to use them properly by using time management well.

Time management is the art of investing your precious hours well and wisely in a systematic way and according to your purposes.

If you want to know how you spend your time, do the following exercise:

• Write down how you spend your time, including how long each thing takes.
• Do this for a week.

This exercise will help you to:

• Create awareness of how efficiently or inefficiently you use your hours, and;
• Will help you develop the ability to use time well.
• In addition, you will realize the bad habits you may have in your time management.
• And it will help you to plan your time better.

Once you have your list, start asking yourself if what you do is productive or not. Remember that it is one thing to be busy and another to be effective. Sometimes you are busy because you haven’t planned your time well.

• One of the things that takes you the most time is not knowing how to say no when something is asked of you.
• Another is to believe that every time the phone rings you have to answer it. Identify which ones make you waste the most time so that you can be alert when they happen.

To achieve this you can do the following exercise.

• Make a list of behavior patterns and habits that keep you from getting things done on time.
• Evaluate the list and decide which ones can be corrected or eliminated.
• Every time you go to do something ask yourself if it is necessary to do it like this or if it can be simplified.

Once you are clear about your habits:

• Make a list of your priorities for each day of the week, listing them in order of priority.
• Analyze the time you are going to dedicate to each one and put it on the calendar.
• Set an alarm for every hour you start a new task.
• Once the alarm sounds, the next thing on the list begins.
• Delegate the things you can delegate.

Over time you can modify your list and your schedules as necessary. You will see how your life becomes much more productive. I wish you success.

To be successful, the important thing is to be effective. We can define effectiveness as the union of knowing where you are going, with the discipline of staying on course. That is, goals (know where you are going) + discipline = effectiveness

Goals are the guide that will help you not to waste your time. These will be your compass.

It is important to have long-term and short-term goals. Long-term goals are the big picture of what you want to achieve. This makes it easy to create short-term ones, since we always have that beacon that guides us.

When you have clear goals, before making each decision, ask yourself if what you are going to do brings you closer or further away from your goal. Once you have clear goals and you commit to achieving them, the unconscious mind begins to work to give you ideas, attract people, books that can help you, etc.

The biggest failure is not trying. If you currently have a goal that you consider unrealistic, break it down into short-term goals that you have to achieve before you achieve the bigger goal. Once you achieve it, reward yourself. It is important that you give yourself some recognition.

Exercise: Every day, in your notebook, make a list of your achievements, no matter how small you find them. For example, if you want to overcome your shyness and today you dared to talk to someone new, write it down on your list.

Although it appeared not to be, I was very shy. My self-esteem was on the ground. I remember thinking that nobody was interested in wasting time talking to me, so if I saw someone I knew but who was not my friend, I would cross the street so that they would not have to “waste time”. I thought I was doing them a favor. When I decided to heal my incorrect thoughts, I made it a goal to greet two people a day. After several days of doing this, I not only managed to delve into my fear and say hello, but I realized that people felt very happy when I recognized their presence and greeted them. How wrong I was.

This exercise helps you to put things in perspective. We are used to looking at the things that we fail at and overlooking those that we do not. In addition, the exercise will help you put your mind in a positive frame.

I recommend this exercise to learn how to set your goals.

• List five important goals you want to achieve within the next year.

• Pick your two most important goals and put them in clear, measurable terms.

• Write the critical steps necessary to achieve each of them.

• You will develop a realistic itinerary for each step, and then you finish the form by evaluating the two goals you selected and rewriting them at the bottom of the page.

• Think specifically about the results you want to achieve. Use dates, amounts of money, job description etc.

• Once you know where you want to go in a year, you can create short-term goals to get there.

• Do this for two years and five years.

Exercise My Goals

Period from (day, month and year) to (day, month and year)

Five goals I want to achieve this year are:

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Of these, my first goal is …

My second goal is …

Critical steps required to achieve my goals by (date)

First Goal                                                                                       Second Goal

1.                                                                                          1.

2.                                                                                          2.

3.                                                                                          3.

4.                                                                                          4.

5.                                                                                          5.

INDIVIDUAL GOAL SETTING SHEET

GOAL (MUST BE SPECIFIC TO BE ABLE TO MEASURE IT)	OBSTACLES TO ACHIEVING YOUR GOAL	ACTION PLAN TO ELIMINATE THE OBSTACLES. (IF YOU CANNOT DEFINE THE STEPS, THE GOAL IS NOT SPECIFIC)	DATE WHEN I WILL ACHIEVE MY GOAL	AWARD WHAT WILL I GIVE ME FOR ACHIEVING IT
ACHIEVING THIS GOAL WILL BRING ME CLOSER TO THIS OTHER GOAL IN THE LONG TERM:

I want to end with a writing that I love on commitment and clearly explains the above:

Until one is commited, there is hesitancy,

the chance to draw back, always

ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of

inititiative and creation, there is one

elementary truth the ignorance of which

kills countless ideas and splendid plans:

that the moment one definitely commits

oneself, then providence moves too. All

sorts of things occur to help one that

would never otherwise have occurred. A

whole stream of events issues from the

decision, raising in ones favor all manner

of unforeseen incidents, meetings and

material assistance which no man could

have dreamed would have come his way.

I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets:

“Whatever you can do or dream begin it.

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!””

W. H. Murray

The Scottish Himalayan Expedition