Is A New Prescription The Answer?
Posted on August 16, 2008 | Filed Under
Time Management Seminars
Do you need to put off the things you enjoy in order to fit around the needs of others? Are you a busy parent? Do you have people who are relying on you, are you in a demanding job, working long hours to make ends meets? If so you\'re not alone. I hear similar stories every week; \"I\'d love to (go back to school, go for a weekend away, find a relationship etc.) but I have to fit around other commitments.\"
If this is you, my guess is that you\'ll be surprised to find out that you need new glasses!
That\'s right; you need new glasses because you are suffering from short sightedness when it comes to time.
What you need is a \"looking glass\" into the future - you might know it better as a calendar!
If I were to ask you to pull out YOUR calendar right now - how far ahead would you have scheduled the things that YOU want to do? I\'m not talking your kid\'s football fixtures, parents\' birthdays, society functions or any of the other things that are arranged for you. I\'m talking about things that you want to do for YOU!
These other things are organised for you and may well be really important, the thing you may have missed is they also provide a clue as to how you can do more of what you want too.
If you have a lot of commitments and don\'t have a calendar with things you want to do planned out into the future, I\'d almost guarantee you\'re dancing to someone else\'s tune.
The answer to fitting in time to pursue your own dreams, hobbies and passions when your life is full of other commitments is to plan them way ahead of time.
For example if you would love a weekend away with your partner and you\'re struggling to find time; throw it out in the future. Pick a weekend 6 months in the future and book it in as a fixed commitment and see what happens.
Your mind will naturally start to arrange your other priorities around this \"fixed\" commitment and as the time approaches you\'ll find that other people just seem to fit in around your date.
6 months will pass before you know it and you can enjoy that weekend happy in the knowledge that you\'ve already got another planned.
Beginning to stretch out your plans and thinking more strategically really is one of the core skills to fitting in your dreams while still meeting your daily commitments.
I\'m not saying this is always easy; I still occasionally find myself going into weekends with no plan and reacting to other people\'s plans. Not planning was fine when I was single and spending all my time climbing with a group of others with no commitments, for years we decided last minute and went anywhere. But as I got older, got married, got a responsible job and then began my own business, this became much tougher and it took me a while to learn the power of what I\'m sharing today. If you too are struggling to fit your goals and dreams in around your other commitments then give this a go - you\'ll be glad you did.
I\'ve said it a lot before and I\'m going to say it again now. If you don\'t have your own plan thenyou\'ll be living someone else\'s plan and chances are they haven\'t got much planned for you.
The question you I\'d ask you now are:
Is living someone else\'s plan OK with you?
If not grab your calendar and get planning!
Can you see how you\'ll apply this? Do you think I\'m talking rubbish or sense? Does all of this sit with you? Will you give it a go?
Anth.
Anth Quinn has been described as the best-kept secret in Personal Development; he is a straight talking champion of everyday people and despite developing a loyal following of over 10,000 readers he managed to avoid publicity.
He says that he finally stepped up to right what he saw as fundamental flaws in much of the personal development industries and he became determined to do something about this.
Despite a massive amount of good information out in the market place Anth says that most people never make long lasting positive changes in their life. Why is this? Well, he says almost every personal development guru is missing a fundamental piece of the puzzle, and it\'s not what you think!!
You can check out his free \"daily action tips\" at http://www.empiricalcoaching.com/takecontrolFDT.htm
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