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Time Management - Do You Control Your Life Or Life Controls You?

By alik levin

June 20th, 2008 | Getting results, Time Management


You’ve created your life architecture and design. You have a dream to fulfill for each life project. What’s next?

Allocate time (T-i-m-e) and manage it.

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I use Outlook 2007 Calendar to manage my time for each life project. It holds not only work meetings but all my life activities.

After defining the life projects as Outlook 2007 categories I block time in the Calendar proactively. I monitor it through my time control dashboard based on Vista Sidebar. For each time slot I peacefully process relevant pipeline items tagged with similar category. Fast-to-done.

Step-by-step recap

Following are the steps for implementing the time management system.

What life projects can look like?

J.D.Meier’s suggests the following life projects in his Life Frame post:

  • Mind
  • Body
  • Emotions
  • Career
  • Financial
  • Relationships
  • Adventure

Matthew Kelly suggest similar list in his The Dream Manager book:

  • Physical
  • Emotional
  • Intellectual
  • Spiritual
  • Psychological
  • Material
  • Professional
  • Financial
  • Creative
  • Adventure
  • Legacy
  • Character

What are yours? How do you manage time for each?

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3 comments ↓

#1 Vered on 06.20.08 at 10:49 pm

Wow. I never thought about it this way. I go about my days just… doing stuff. I never tried to see the big picture, yet I consider myself a relatively content person (I whine a lot, but deep down, I love my life).

I guess my own life projects are:
Raising my kids
Me (which includes mind/ body)
Relationships
Finance
FUN (mostly travel)
Career

How do I manage time for each? I don’t know. It just happens naturally, and I am quite satisfied with how it all works out.

#2 blogrdoc on 06.23.08 at 4:42 am

Hi Alik. The best advice I heard about time management is that you can’t manage time. It marches on at a constant rate. You can only manage yourself :)

#3 alik levin on 06.23.08 at 5:15 am

Vered,
Imagine if you were doing stuff in focused way with clear goals in front of you, even w/kids and family…
How do you know you make progress today?

blogrdoc,
I am completely w/you!

That is exactly what i tried to express with the second part of the title. The first part is not for you, it is for Google… SEO must be respected ;)

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