What If Time Were Money

What if time were money?

The only non-renewable asset that we have is our time. We can always make more money, right? What differentiates us from Oprah Winfrey or Tony Robbins is how we spend our most valuable asset: our time. Are we spending our time watching Netflix and scrolling on social media or are we spending our time being productive?

My philosophy is do, delete, and delegate. I don’t believe in “to do lists” because they just rob your energy when you see how many things you must do. In reality most of those things will never get done.

So, pick your battles and figure out what you can do, who you can delegate a task to, or what needs to be deleted because these days we have so much on our plates that we have to undertake. So much that we need to simplify our lives and work more effectively to accomplish everything we need in your business.

I suggest that you calendar everything. I believe in Parkinson’s Law, which states “work will expand to fill the time allotted for its completion.”

It’s interesting how you can go to a movie that you love and it’s over before you know it. But if you go to a movie that you’re not enjoying and it seems to take forever to get through it, you just want to pack up your popcorn and go home. The movies can have the same running time, yet the passage of time feels different in each situation.

The more you can get into the zone where time seems to stand still, you can get everything you want to get done. It makes a big difference.

I block schedule and figure out how much time something is going to take. And I get it done in that amount of time. I schedule everything and that way I know everything has a home and will get done.

If I need to reschedule something, I will reschedule once. But if I want to reschedule it again, I ask myself why, what is the resistance? The only way to address the resistance is to just do it. I think the Nike slogan is correct. Just do it!