Time Managment III

More great wisdom from the late, Professor Randy Pausch.

Alright, have you started organizing a little more? It helps doesn't it?
In this post I am going to give some pointers on Goals, Priorities, and Planning.
You should have at least 100 things you would like to accomplish in your life time.
We are always taught to have goals, well, without them I can almost guarantee no
success. Don't wander aimlessly around in life, have a goal and go for it. And know that
even though a goal isn't reached within the time limit you want, you should search what
steps you took and revise, go for the goal again. Figure out why your goal wasn't reached.
But NEVER give up!

This may be a way to figure out how to prioritize your tasks that are necessary to
reach your goals.
Here are some good questions to ask yourself:
Why am I doing this?
Why will I succeed?
What happens if I choose not to do it?

You need a reason for doing the task you are doing and in that reason you have to figure out how you will succeed in the said task.
Now, ask yourself what happens if you don't do the said task. Is the world going to fall in around me? Is it going to mess up other tasks I need to do if I don't do this one? Figure out the importance of each thing you need to do.

Randy mentions something that I have heard a lot in my life. It is the 80/20 rule. This is how he explained it. 80% of your money is going to come from 20% of your clients. You need to figure our which they are and be really nice to them! Well, be nice to everyone, but these are your bread winners, find nice ways to thank them.

There is one man we all know and love for his creation, Disneyland. Walt Disney said, "If you can dream it, you can do it." If you refuse to dream something than you will not do it. Mr. Disney had Disneyland built in 366 days. WOW! How did he achieve such a task, he used every single one of those 366 days. Not a single day was wasted. So in your goal you want to set a time limit. You also want to use every one of the days/months/years you give yourself. Work your goal daily.

Something we at Mentoring for Free do is study the book Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill. Hill states that you must write down your desire, your goal. You need to come up with a goal, then a time limit for your goal. Now, you don't get something for nothing, so write in there
the action you plan to take to achieve this goal. What are you giving to get it?
Say what you have written twice a day (at least) until it just becomes a ritual that you do in the morning and night.
We also come up with what we call our "self talk". This is a paragraph you say to yourself everyday also. For an example I will share mine with you. "I am the MASTER of my FATE, the CAPTAIN of my SOUL, because I have the power to control my thoughts!" I am having fun building a future for me and my family, through learning and the teaching of others. Because I can do all things through Jesus who strengthens me!
It doesn't have to be this long or it can be longer. That is up to you. I put Jesus in it, because I put Him in all I do. That is my choice, not the choice of everyone, I do understand this and as I stated I just wanted to give you an example.

Okay, so you have some work to do right?
Write a goal down. Prioritize your tasks to accomplish the goal. Give yourself a time limit for the goal. Have a plan to accomplish the goal. Good quote, not sure who it is by but, "Failing to plan, is planning to fail". Find a self talk of your own and repeat it to yourself everyday. You have to give yourself pep talks. If you wake up everyday telling yourself how cruddy of a day it is going to be, well it will be. So wake up and continue all day to tell yourself how wonderful a day it is!

More to come....Thanks for reading and I hope you were able to get to tips off of this post!
Have a wonderful day! I know I will!!:-)

Time Managment Part II

Time Management Part II

This is some more great information I picked up off of Professor Randy Pausch.
Most of us have a budget that we keep. And those that don’t find themselves in the -red quite often, yes? Well, just as we should have a money budget we should have a time budget as well. I will tell you this when you have bad time management, your stress level, it sky rockets! Plus all the information will help you, yes save precious time, but it can be considered great advice on your life as well. So instead of time management lets call is “LIFE MANAGEMENT”.

Here are a few things that have us wasting around two hours per day, add that up, wow! Two hours per day!! That is a considerable amount of time, and if I were of the green personality I would tell you in days, hours, and min per year that would save you. I am not. So we move on.
Here are just a few things:

• A messy desk
• Can’t find things
• Unprepared for meetings
• Tired/unable to concentrate

Wow, right? I can relate to almost all these things, eeek!
Here are two statements that Randy used and they made me slap my forehead!

• BEING SUCCESSFUL DOESN’T MAKE YOU MANAGE YOUR TIME WELL.
• MANAGING YOUR TIME WELL MAKES YOU SUCCESSFUL

Are those just so profound? I love these ah-ha moments in life!
And no I am not saying if you stay unorganized and sloppy, like myself at this moment, you won’t succeed. But if you manage your life and time well, you have a lot better chance of getting there sooner!

Alright, I am going to leave you to think of what you would like to do with the 2 hours you are going to save yourself after dealing with the above issues. I was thinking a nice hot bath for at least an hour of that and then maybe…..alright snapping out of it. Or I will be wasting even more time! Hee, hee, hee!
I know this section is short, but if you are anything like me, those 4 things up there will keep you thinking and busy for a bit!

Your Friend and Mentor,
Rhonda Wudarczyk
Dickinson, ND 58601

Success In 10 Steps

Time Managment

Time Management

Okay, does anyone else out there think “Ahhhhh” when you hear the word time management? I do! But, it seems lately that those two words keep popping up everywhere I turn. So, for me at least, it is a sign that I totally need to get this down. I normally have no concept of time. I am late or right on time for most everything. This is annoying to me and I am sure all those I have to keep waiting. So, again, it must be time to get a hold of some good advice on this very subject.
My great friend and mentor Sarah Thompson taught us the other day how to save time with email. Did you think that was even possible. I had no idea. Really never thought about it. But you can actually save 10-20 days a year with the organization of email. I also watched a video on YouTube on a lecture given by Professor Randy Pausch. He also went into detail on how to save time with email.
Chit-chat back and forth is fine now and then. But when it comes to business, well, keep it short and simple.
Let’s start with your inbox. Your inbox is not a to-do list. Do not keep it cluttered with mail that needs to be read. Read it and file it. All email systems, that I am aware of, have a way to save emails in different folders. Make a folder for every subject you have coming into your inbox. Therefore if it is something that you need to keep and save, save it. Don’t store things in your inbox. I have started to take this advice. It is very nice to have an empty inbox. I really didn’t think it would make much difference but it really has. Another point with email is, as I said before, keep them simple. If you spend ½ your time replying to silly things back and forth, well, that is a lot of time wasted. Get your point across the first time, let it be confirmed and be done with it. Also, really think about what kind of response you would like back from your email. If you need a response right away, make sure you state it in your subject line. Do not just write “Hi there” and expect a immediate response. Put what it is you are after in your subject line. Unless you are just telling someone hello and don’t care if they respond right away. Another thing to think about is the person you are emailing. Maybe to them your new shoes aren’t so important, so don’t send them an URGENT in the subject line for non-urgent things. They also have a busy life right? Always think of the other person on the other end while thinking of how important something really is.

Okay, I guess you could say that is lesson one on Time Management. I will add more, I have really learned a lot in the past few days, at a later date. Thanks and I really hope you might have gotten a little nugget out of this!
Have a great and wonderful day!
Rhonda Wudarczyk
Dickinson ND
970-380-4447
PS Please remember to always have fun in life, you never know how long life really is.
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