Do You Control Time or Does it Control You?
“We always have enough time to do what needs to be done.” Alan Cohen (A Deep Breath of Life)
My friend above, Alan Cohen, taught me many valuable lessons in life, but none more important than this one, “If you are a servant of time rather than letting time serve you, you are a prisoner.”
Today email, cell phones, PDA’s and more have made us less free than we believe we are. While we brag about how “connected” we are and how “quickly” we can accomplish things, we fail to see how we have imprisoned our abilities to be creative, learn and grow for ourselves and in our work.
Do yourself and those you serve a favor today and think of the following things;
#1- What is the most important thing you have to do today for your work?
Think about this from the following perspective;
Will it meets the needs of an existing client in such a way that the quality of what I do and my customer serve to them will be memorable?
Will it bring business to me/us?
Will it support the structure of our business in such a way to make it more sustainable in time?
#2 - What is the most important thing I will do for me to day?
Do I need to spend some time on my health? With my family? Get new tires? Make a dentist appointment?
Not all priorities have to be large, but they must fit into the bigger picture of building a life and a career that you love.*
*Be on the lookout for Barbara’s new simple rule book, “Building the LIfe You Love” in March of 2009
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