François Mitterrand used to say. "Give time for time." The notion being that you need to make time in order to appreciate the ultimate gift we have been given: time on this earth. Every day, we make conscious and less conscious choices on time allocation.
Most of us will spend more than one-third of our lives and more than half of our waking adult hours in our workplaces. A natural concern, and one worthy of a New Year's reflection and resolution, is how can we be better, more honest and more efficient with that time. Here are five gut-check questions to see if you are making the greatest impact with your work time:
1. Are you working towards a purpose?
2. Are you running hard, but not getting ahead?
3. Have you done a calendar audit lately? Do you have a real sense of where you spend your time?
4. Are you booking sufficient think time? For most meetings there is at least a 1:2 ratio of prep time to meeting time, and it can go upwards of 20:1. If a meeting is an hour you probably need 30 minutes to prepare. For critical meetings you may need 20 hours of preparation for each hour.
5. Are you multi-tasking your way to lower productivity? Focus on the task at hand when you have scheduled the time to do so.
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Love the Salvador Dali clocks. Time is indeed a PRECIOUS commodity. Too much of it is wasted.
ReplyDeleteFrançois said a mouth full. Some of the questins are even good for retirees. I still like to make good use of time.
ReplyDeleteThere are times I do it better than others. I prefer to sleep until at least 9am, mama thinks that is a waste, but it is not, I am loading fuel for the day!!!
I always enjoy 'Bucko's World'.
It seems I spend way too much of my time thinking about time, and would love to get away from that. Being retired helps.
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