Down with time management, up with time revolution


Dont try to manage your time.

You try to manage something if you are short of it; money, for example. But we are not short of time. We may be short of ideas, confidence, or common sense, but not time. What we are short of is those marvelous times when time stands still, when we are wonderfully happy and creative.

Time management tells us to speed up. It promises us more free time, time to relax, but it doesnt deliver. The promise is just a carrot to make us move faster. Like the donkey, we find ourselves moving faster but remain those few elusive inches away from the carrot. In todays faster world, hours are longer, work less leisurely, and pressure more intense . Like the donkey, we have been conned. With time management, we work more and relax less.

Time revolution says the opposite . We have too much time, not too little. It is because we have so much time that we squander it.

To detonate your time revolution, slow down. Stop worrying. Do fewer things.

Chuck your to do list, make a

not to do list.

Act less, think more. Reflect on what really matters to you. Stop doing anything that isnt valuable , that doesnt make you happy. Savor life.

The modern world has accelerated out of control. Technology was meant to add to our free time, but its done the opposite. As Theodore Zeldin says:

Technology has been a rapid heartbeat, compressing house work, travel, entertainment, squeezing more and more into the allotted span. Nobody expected that it would create the feeling that life moves too fast.1

Swim against the tide of acceleration. Be unconventional, even eccentric. Purge your diary. Dump your cell phone. Stop going to meetings or events that bore you. Reclaim time for yourself and the people you care about.




Living the 80. 20 Way. Work Less, Worry Less, Succeed More, Enjoy More
Living The 80/20 Way: Work Less, Worry Less, Succeed More, Enjoy More
ISBN: 1857883314
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 86
Authors: Richard Koch

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