Once you have accepted the fact that you cannot do everything and have stopped living as though you can, you have taken a big step toward becoming an effective time manager. Identifying priorities will become second nature. Acting on the basis of priorities will become easier. In your efforts to control time, your understanding of time and attitude toward time are crucial to your success.
Many people refer to time as a resource. A resource is something that lies ready for use, or something that can be drawn upon for aid. Time fits this definition. Begin to accept time as your most important resource. Time is a tool that can be drawn upon to help you accomplish results, an aid that can take care of a need, an assistant in solving problems. However, time is not like other resources, because you can't buy, sell it, rent, steal it, borrow it, lend it, store it, save it, multiply it, manufacture it or change it. All you can do is spend it.
As a resource, time poses another paradox: If you don't use it, it disappears anyway. Thus the quality of your resource depends on how well you use it. The knowledge that you are wasting this very personal resource when you do not spend your time better.
Your attitude toward time is also affected by the fact that time is free- you do not have to buy it. You receive 24 hours simply by waking up each morning. Many people do not place much value on things that cost nothing or on things obtained with little effort. If you had to "buy" your time, you'd probably spend it much differently than you do now.
Not only is time free; it is equitable. Everyone receives exactly the same amount each day. But this is a deceptive equality, since people always manage to get more out of their 24 hours than others. Still, time is one of the truly democratic aspects of our lives.
Even if we use our time well, we do not receive an extra amount. We still receive the same daily allotment as the person who squanders time.
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