 Contests & Activities: July 25, 2012 Issue [#5159] |
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This week: Time Management Edited by: Annette  
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Time Management
How many times do you wish for more time in the day? More time to finish a project at work. More time to write. More time to play. More more more.
On the flip side, there are plenty of times you'd wish time would hurry up. Like when getting a tooth pulled. Ouch.  What a drastic example.
The truth about time is that it elapses at the same rate. It's only our perception and the things we're doing with time that make it feel too fast or too slow. The only way to dominate time is to manage it. Since we are writers here on this site, the main thing we want to be able to do is to find the time to write. There are usually plenty of things in life competing for our attention. People, pets, hunger, bad weather, the newspaper ...
Some of the things we have to do each day can't be changed. I can't choose to work or not to work. It's not a choice whether I want to make lunch for my family or not. There are, however, amounts of time each day that I could spend writing if I chose to. Without the ability to create more time than the 24 hours we are allocated per day, we have to find ways to bend time, multitask, ask for help with chores and force time to allow us to write.
"I must govern the clock, not be governed by it." Golda Meir
I like this quote because it really gets to the point of what it means to give each task in the day a certain amount of time and a time by when it has to be finished.
"I took some time out for life." James L. Brooks
Yes! Yes! Of course we can just plug away at our daytime job and fall on the couch at night and let TV take over and let it all trickle by. Or we can ask for a vacation and take that time to do what we want to do. Which is write! Right?
"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?" John Wooden
Oh, how about some performance anxiety. Seems John Wooden wouldn't be much for editing were this quote applied to writing. So, write well!
"Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life." Alan Lakein
Simple. Time = time to write. Let's go.
"So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day." Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Long name and long sentence. In the amount of time it took you to figure out the proper pronunciation of this man's name, you could have written five sentences. Let's take his advice and really use each day fully by creating a master plan on how to use time.
I hope you had fun reading this newsletter. I had fun writing it. Now, it's time I got to writing some fiction. See you in August.
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