Alright, you're a brave soul. You're
going to watch a video on time management?
But hey don't worry. This is not like any
other time management video you've ever
seen.
Watch what I train you on about time
management. It's going to open up your
mind.
You know, how you run out of time or
something took longer than what you
thought? Well, I think you may have a
challenge in an issue with the
relationship you have with time. I know
a lot of people call it time
management. I even wrote it on the board
time management. But come on, what it
really ism it's a relationship you have
with time. It consider this dish for a
moment. Think about this for a moment. When you
were a kid, when you were a kid, you got
told you couldn't play. That there was no
time to go play. Or you were playing with
your friends and you got called home and
you're like, "Why? Why? What's going on?"
And they said, "Times up." So, when you're
growing up, you probably did not have a
lot of positive experiences where time
was measuring your fun, your work, your
freedom, you feeling trapped. Time was not
your friend growing up. Rarely do you
find that kids enjoy being measured by
time when it comes to play time, work
time and those kind of things. So, you
know what happens to us is kids then
carries on with this for the rest of our
life. So, if you are having a struggle
with time and you're trying to be a
really good time manager and you're
you're really reading a lot of books
about time management but you still
can't grab a hold of this whole time
management thing? I think it's a issue
that you grew up with as a kid, right?
Because once you develop a bad
attitude toward something and you don't
switch it to a good attitude, you're
going to continue to struggle with that.
Now, I'm going to take on a really deep dive
here. So, I apologize ahead time but
here's a really deep dive on this. I'm
going to guess, as your mentor, as your
mentor right now. There are hours, minutes
and seconds. I bet you were cut short on
seconds, minutes and hours. And I bet
they're somewhere in your past where you
still are frustrated. You still regret
and resent somebody on how they
mismanaged your
time and took time away from you. Well, I
just want to tell you that until you
really get into your relationship with
time, you're not going to get better at
being a time manager. And being good with
time management. So, this is what you do.
And this is this is the big deep dive.
This is what you do. Pull out your
journal or pull up a new document on
your computer. And begin journaling all
the different thoughts and experiences
you've had with time. Where somebody took
time away from you or you didn't have
enough time or you ran out of time. All
these different scenarios with time. Now,
this is.... You know, I know this is a
short video but I got to give you what's
really going on. I don't know if you're
going to do the work or not but this is
what's really going on. Do the journaling
to find those past experiences. And so
you can start to understand why it is
you're bad with time. I mean, you know
how you're late and things don't get
done on time and you're frustrated with
other people in their time. It's because
of your past.
So, you journal to understand your past.
You go looking in your past. Start
thinking about it, start talking about it.
You know bring it up to your spouse or
your friends and and just start talking
about all the different scenarios of
what it's like when you were growing up.
I did. I was terrible with time. Years... About
about 10/11 years ago, I was terrible at
time. And I was always late to things,
always super behind. And I just... Time
I always ran out of. And got in trouble a
lot. You know, it didn't show up in the
right place at the right time. So, I had
to do that deeper dive. Journaling about
your experience with time is going to help
you uncover what has happened to you
about time. Now, that step one, is to do
the uncovering. Now, once you uncover
those stories and you start to realize
how you are programmed in your mind
about your relationship with time. Now
it's time to literally write your new
story. You have an old story about time
and now it's time
to write the news story. But writing a
news story without uncovering old
stories isn't going to work that well. So, do
the journaling to search your past to
find the weird things that have happened.
Then begin writing and... "Kirk, how do
you know when to start writing your
story about time?" Journal for about 5
or 6 days. Not, not... Make it simpler
for you.
Journal for 3 days about your past
with time and see what you can find and
start uncovering those things. Then in
about 2-3 days from now. Write a whole
new story. Write a whole new story. I'm
very conscious of the hours, the minutes
and seconds in my life. I know what time
it is, I know how long it takes to do
things. In fact, I can do something all
day long and narrow it down to the very
moment that I'm going to finish what is I'm
going to do. Start practicing talking about
your new relationship with time. It's
kind of like you're dating, right?
You got a brand new relationship and
it's going to turn out great and you start
telling your brain how to calibrate with
time. If you don't do this you're going to
continue to struggle with it but you got
an old story and it's time to write it. -- The
news story. Now, here's a couple things to
help you in managing your time. Just stop
exaggerating about numbers and
situations. Exaggeration distort your
thinking. And you're not going to get good
time as precise. It doesn't waver, it's
the same thing over and over again. So, if
you're an exaggerator, you're going to
struggle with time management. And the
other thing about being late, you
got to start looking and measuring how
long does it take to get places, what
you're doing. And really, really work hard
on being there early and being on
time. Another thing that's going to mess
with you every time you hit snooze in
the morning. You are disregarding the
promise you made yourself the night
before. You said you're going to get up at
6:00 and you hit snooze. Oh, come on!
When it says... When it says 6:00 get up. My
alarm went off this morning at 4 o'clock.
Rolled out of bed. Do I do that every
time? How about 85/90% of the time.
But you hit snooze, you're saying, "I
disregard all my calculations of when I
should get up and I don't honor time." So,
get up and the whole late thing, come on,
you got to get closer.
And stop the exaggerating. That just
messes with your whole head. You're just
confusing yourself. So, here's some things to
start doing about your whole time
management. Track time. How long does it
take? Do something. How long does it take
it eat breakfast? Really, how long does it
take you to eat breakfast? How long does
it really take you to get to the office?
Second one is, be more accurate with
numbers. You know, how much do you weigh?
How much money do you have your bank
account? What time's the Sun come up? What
time you going to go to bed? What time
you're going to get up? Practice being more
accurate, you'll get better at time
management. Another one for you, I already
said this one but get up. When your alarm
goes up, get up.
You'll find that you actually have a
better relationship with time. And the
last one is, as much as you can,
throughout the day watch the clock. If
you don't measure time, you can't manage
time. So, look at the clock often. Just to
notice how long it takes for things to
happen. I think you'll be surprised at
how well you can do with time management.
Remember time is a relationship. It's
time to dig in and create a brand new
story about time. What do you think about
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