It’s difficult to get a handle on time. It seems to get away from us even quicker than money! I’ve found it really helps for me to make a list of what I hope to get accomplished. But I usually don’t limit the list for one day. Take right now, for instance. It’s Friday. I made a list Wednesday night for what I wanted to get done Thrusday and Friday. I don’t feel so stressed that way. And having it down on paper does help. Yesterday, about noon, I felt I had been working at the speed of light. And I had! Yet, when I looked at my list I had only done one thing on it. The rest of the time was spent on those little, somewhat unimportant tasks that take up so much time.
Someone once said we often do the urgent instead of the important. How true that is! Yesterday, it was important for me to do some writing for a client, yet it was urgent for the laundry to get done. So guess what got my attention?
And we had a repairman here doing some work. Once again, I needed to write, but here he was asking me about stuff. Not really that important, because there’s no rush to get that work done. But, because he was here (and we were paying him to be here!) the urgent took first place. Not the important.
One of my goals is to get my life focused enough to do the important. The more organized I get, the closer this is to becoming a reality.
What about you? Do you take care of the important? Or, the urgent?
Tags: organization, time management
