Time management is basically about being focused. The Pareto Principle also known as the ‘80:20 Rule’ states that 80% of efforts that are not time managed or unfocused It generates only 20% of the desired output. However, 80% of the desired output can be generated using only 20% of a well time managed effort. Although the ratio ‘80:20′ is only arbitrary, it is used to put emphasis on how much is lost or how much can be gained with time management.
Some people view time management as a list of rules that involves scheduling of appointments, goal settings, thorough planning, creating things to do lists and prioritizing. These are the core basics of time management that should be understood to develop an efficient personal time management skill. These basic skills can be fine tuned further to include the finer points of each skill that can give you that extra reserve to make the results you desire.
But there is more skills involved in time management than the core basics. Skills such as decision making, inherent abilities such as emotional intelligence and critical thinking are also essential to your personal growth.
Personal time management involves everything you do. No matter how big and no matter how small, everything counts. Each new knowledge you acquire, each new advice you consider, each new skill you develop should be taken into consideration.
Having a balanced life-style should be the key result in having personal time management. This is the main aspect that many practitioners of personal time management fail to grasp.
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29.07.2007
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By: Rene Graeber
What you may consider a priority might not be to another person. Conversely, other people’s priorities might not be a priority to you. It doesn’t mean though that you can’t have similar priorities.
What are the most common priorities of the majority of people? Here is a list of the most chosen priorities most people pursue, with a suggestion or two on how to actively materialize them. Yours might not be in the list but the idea remains the same - to pursue them in the most convenient way in order to maximize time use. Oh, a word of caution: too many priorities are not all priorities. So define which ones are and focus only on them, not on all of them.
Most people value family as their first priority. If the president’s family is called the first family; for most, the family is first. Spending (rather investing) time with your family will strengthen bondage between members. But quantity time is not as important as quality time. Well, if you can inject quantity to quality, so much the better. To be in front of a television set may or may not be quality time. Quality is lost if concentration of each member is glued on the feature in the television set. Some discussion or reaction between family members regarding the feature could lend some quality on time. An intellectual board game may be better. A day trip as a family gets together on a weekend once or twice a month is ideal. Thoughtfulness shown by sending cards or flowers during occasions (better yet when there are no occasions) lifts the relationship between spouses.
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22.07.2007
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By Dimitri Karalis
If we observe carefully the parasitic insects and other microscopic beetles in nature, we realised that all borrow food from bigger creatures for their nourishment and growth. Fleas, lice, mosquitoes, ticks, leeches and others, suck blood where and whenever it is given occasion. The same phenomenon continues also in the plant kingdom. Creepers like Convolvulus, Ivy, beans, tomato and lots of others, need external support for their growth and survival. In book shops and libraries we observe humans doing sιmiler things. All search patiently among old and new pages to abstract new ideas for their intellectual growth. Every free intellect becomes a torch bearer in the stride for spiritual freedom. We all borrow something from somewhere to re-synthesize it afterwards to our likeness. Like the honey bee that sucks pure flower water and synthesises it into sweetest nectar in the hive later.
“This is our supreme aim, said the writer Kazantzakis, to shoulder our ancestor’s heritage renewable and better forwards forever”. It is not enough to reproduce our race forward like in the lower animals, but also to uplift it intellectually and spiritually upwards. “He who borrows from a similar thinker, said Burke, he doubles his own and he who borrows from his superior, rise intellectually to level with his lender”. Knowledge is free for every one, only it requires a wakened perception and a ceaseless yearning to be harvested. Nothing is completely new; but they are rekindled coals from the forgotten past. Every new idea is a renewable old copy of continuation. Like the primitive wooden plough that developed slowly into mechanical tractor today. All of us carry some ancestral idea and it is our sacred duty to pass it updated to future generations.
When we read Plato, we discover the thoughts of previous philosophers, Heraclitos, Pythagoras, Anaxagoras and Socrates, much riper for better digestion. When we read the Christian bible, we see the platonic theory reformatted into religious dogma. When we read thinkers like Rabelais and Montainge, we discover the charming thoughts of the biographer Plutarch. The strong borrow bravely and dress it with their personal colour for future storage. Progress, means, to re-synthesize the past with the present and to forward it bettered for the future generations that follow. Every judicious thinker carries with him a private library, and when we read his chiselled thoughts, we ask our selves with admiration! I wonder which worthy books ripened his mental cells so profoundly! Like when we look at the temple Parthenon and wish to meet its architects Kallikratis, Ictinos and Phidias.
“Libra thesaurus anima” said the Romans, “books are treasures of the soul”. Without books today, mankind would be undeveloped almost in a primitive state. Books are the mental archives for every human to learn and add something new of his own. If Heaven has no books at all, not every thinker wishes happily to inhabit there. What business has the bee in the deadly dessert? When the sterile sand doesn’t offer a drop of flower-water to convert into delicious honey?
Reading, offers mental wealth, -writing, literal precision and speech expressive readiness. We read to learn, we write to precise and we talk to express. We are valuated how we think; we appreciated what we offer and loved how we speak. When we open our mouth we reveal at same time our intellectual level. Once a senseless flatterer talking to Aristotle, stopped suddenly when he observed the apathy into philosopher’s face, sorry master, he said, it seems that my long speech has tired you a little, By no means, answered Aristotle, I wasn’t listening to your speech.
Isn’t our mental ripeness a dignified virtue and best intellectual nourishment to better humanity? Hermanus-western cape.
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Reading, offers mental wealth, -writing, literal precision and speech expressive readiness. We read to learn, we write to precise and we talk to express. We are valuated how we think; we appreciated what we offer and loved how we speak. When we open our mouth we reveal at same time our intellectual level. Once a senseless flatterer talking to Aristotle, stopped suddenly when he observed the apathy into philosopher’s face, sorry master, he said, it seems that my long speech has tired you a little, By no means, answered Aristotle, I wasn’t listening to your speech
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10.07.2007
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Copyright 2005 Inez Ng
I have professed to be the ultimate left-brained nerd. For years I saw myself as the analytical automaton, sorely lacking in creativity. And creativity is something that I really valued. Think about it - being creative is defined as “having or showing imagination and artistic or intellectual inventiveness.” Who wouldn’t want that quality?
As I am also a professed personal growth addict, I have worked hard on boosting my own creativity. And I am happy to report that I do consider myself much improved in that area. If you can identify with me, don’t despair. It really was not as hard as I thought. How did I do it? Here are some of my secrets to help you get started.
1. Exercise your creative muscle regularly
There have been lots of studies on the human brain and evidence shows that our brains works very much like a muscle, which means that the more we use it, the stronger it becomes. In order to boost your creative muscle, start using it every opportunity you get, especially when it is just for fun.
Here are some things you can do:
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05.07.2007
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