Time is Money - Invest It

You can not manage time. It is a constant. It passes by, second by second, and nothing you can do will prevent this. Time is the great equalizer. No matter who you are, what your position, or how wealthy you become, you will still have the same amount of time each day, and that is the exact same amount of time everyone else has. It does not matter if you count it as twenty-four hours; one thousand, four hundred, and sixty minutes; or eighty-six thousand, four hundred seconds, it is always going to be the same.

You can manage yourself, and that is what time management is really about. Managing yourself and the events that fill the hours you have is the basis for all of the time management books, tapes and courses out there. There are many strategies, techniques and tools to assist a person with this, but it still comes down to self-management. In Time Is Money: Save It, Lothar J. Seiwert describes self-management, "To self-manage means to effectively and consistently apply appropriate working techniques on a daily basis, in order to organize ("manage") your life by using your time in the best possible way." The principle of self-management is to consciously control your life and the events of your life rather than be controlled by your environment. An old sailors' maxim states that, "it does not matter in what direction the wind blows, it matters how I set the sails."

Time management is one of the skills I taught when directing the Center for Leadership Development, and I have taught these skills to various college groups, conference participants, and business staffs. Managing how you use your time is a critical aspect of making things happen and I'll be putting time tactics to help you manage how you use your time better here, as well as future book projects that will deal with time management. You can also check out the chapter "Time is Money - Invest It" from Lessons From The Apprentice on my website: www.burrese.com

You only have so much time, so invest it and Make Things Happen!