1. Time Management (Advanced)

2. There are several methods, techniques, tools, planners, etc., to manage and control our time.

3. In fact, we have experienced three generations of time Management. We’ve been told to work harder, learn to do things better & faster, use new devices such as files, organisers, planners, schedules etc. to be able to do well.

4. But these do not click. We get frustrated. We feel that something is wrong somewhere. Because working faster and harder do not yield the desired results.

5. Generations of Time Management 1 st – Reminders, to do lists etc. 2 nd – Planers, Appointment books 3 rd – Prioritisation 1 st & 2 nd generation of TM help as Memory Aids. 3 rd generation of TM can be compared to a Car Travel, using a wrong map.

6. We have a better car, good road etc. It facilitates speedy travel, offers good mileage. But the wrong map will not take us to the real destination. We’ll reach the wrong place, faster!

7. If we keep doing what we’ve been doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

8. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results.

9. We need to move beyond time Management to Life Leadership – to a 4 th generation based on paradigm that will create quality of life results.

10. 4 th generation of TM is based on Importance Paradigm. Free yourself from the ‘Urgency addiction’.

11. It is a principle-centred approach. Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile. While we do control our choices of action, we cannot control the consequences of our choices.

12. Universal laws or principles do. Thus, we are not in control of our lives; principles are.

13. Clock & Compass “New technique of TM offers a Compass, instead of a clock - because, ‘where you are headed’ is more important than ‘how fast you are going’.

16. Said Alice to the cat -" 'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?' 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. 'I don't much care where...‘ said Alice. 'Then it doesn't matter which way you go.' said the Cat. '.. so long as I get somewhere.' Alice added as an explanation. 'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough.'" From Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland

19. Shift your focus from urgency to importance. The Main thing is to keep the Main thing the Main thing.

20. For many of us there is a gap between the clock and the compass - the gap between what is deeply important to you and the way you spend your time. This gap is not closed by traditional approach to TM.

21. Reduce this gap.

22. Knowing what is important rather than simply responding to what is urgent is foundational to Putting First Things first.

23. We’ve painstakingly climbed the “ladder of success” rung by rung – the hard work, later hours, diploma, qualifications, promotions – only to discover as we reached the top rung that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

24. Four Human Needs Physical, Social, Mental and spiritual needs

25. We have many different roles in life. We need more time. We want to enjoy our life more.

26. We never have time for ourselves. Our friends and family want more of us. We have no balance between our work-life and personal life.

27. Life is hectic. What is important to me is being swept away in the current of what is important to everybody else. The enemy of best is ‘good’. It is the question of choice – first things first – what contributes to your life.

29. The purpose of life is to live, to love, to learn and to leave a legacy. (Physical, social, mental and spiritual) Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

30. It is where these four needs overlap, that we find true inner balance, deep fulfillment and joy.

31. Fulfilling the four needs in an integrated way results in an explosion of inner synergy that ignites the ‘fire within’ and gives vision, passion and spirit of adventure to life.

32. Fire Within

33. URGENTNOT URGENT IMPORTANTIMPORTANT I Crises Pressing Problems Dead-line driven projects, meetings, preparations. Value addition, if not done, serious loss – deal quickly Q1 acts on us –action packed II Preparation, Prevention Value Clarification, Planning Relationship Building True re-creation Empowerment Value addition is there; but it can wait. give good time slot. Push it forward. We act on Q 2 NOTIMPORTANTNOTIMPORTANT III Interruptions, some phone calls Some mail, some reports Some meetings Many proximate, pressing matters Many popular activities Small time slot – it is quadrant of deception – Noise of urgency creates illusion of importance. IV Trivia, busy work Junk mail Some phone calls Time wasters ‘Escape’ activities Journal, News papers Dust Bin