Although it’s very hard to know when your beliefs are accurate, it isn’t as difficult to detect inaccuracies, so focus your improvement efforts there for starters. Symptoms of inaccurate beliefs include chronic procrastination, mixed emotions, lying, self-sabotage, setting goals that fizzle, fear of failure, fear of rejection, timidity, depression, anger, frustration, resentment, and wearing excessively baggy pants where the crotch is down to your knees (you do NOT look cool in those; you look like a dolt).
Continue readingSome days I feel as if I’m infected by the curiosity bug, always wanting to know the very latest information for no particular reason. I’d catch myself unconsciously checking up on various information outlets far more frequently than I needed to. Perhaps this is a strange form of perfectionism.
Continue readingIncongruent activities are big obstacles in terms of time managemet. A big time management mistake people make is that they allow incongruencies to exist in their lives without ever consciously resolving them. This is very easy to see when it comes to religion. People claim to hold certain beliefs as sacred, but they fail to act in accordance with those beliefs. They hold back or label themselves as weak. Why? Because part of them feels those beliefs are correct, but another part of them feels they’re not.
Continue readingThis post is going to be the core article of the time management series in this blog. I named it “for firefighters” because if you can’t manage your time properly, soon you will need to extinguish fires in your life. I mean, there is going to be a lot of urgent and important tasks you will have to deal with.
Continue readingAt least some of us must be somewhat busy these days. Right? There are lots of tasks to be done, people to see, e-mails to see, phone calls to answer, etc… From start of our day to the end, it is quite overwhelming and we need some time management techniques to overcome this stressing situation. […]
Continue readingLately I’ve been trying a promising new method for managing my time. It is called the 50-30-20 method. It’s similar to timeboxing, except that instead of allocating a certain amount of time for a specific activity, I divide my total work time between three different classes of activities.
Continue readingIf we have to do something, like a task given by our superior, there are essentially two methods we can follow to compelete it. First, we can work as hard as we can until it is “done”. Second, we can fix the amount of time we spare to that task and do the “best” we can. The latter method is known as “Time boxing“.
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