- So time management, ultimately, is self management.
Time management, ultimately, is self management.
It's not about managing time.
It's about managing ourselves,
managing our priorities.
Managing our emotions.
Put up your hand: how many of you
have a task or something in your business
that you know you're supposed to do,
but you just--you've been putting it off?
Be honest.
So, and you know exactly what to do.
You know exactly what needs to be done.
It's not time; we all have the time.
It's just we can't get ourself off our ass
and get it done.
So it's about time management and self management.
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- And that takes discipline.
And that takes discipline.
So self management, it's about knowing
what to do at any given moment.
Self management, it's about knowing--
knowing what?
Knowing what?
What to do at any given moment.
It's dealing effectively with the things
we have to do, to achieve our goals
and fulfill our purpose, whatever purpose
that you might have.
It's also about deciding--what's the word?
Deciding the importance of the varied
and constant information coming at us.
Learning new things, new information,
data, competitive intelligence,
what's going on in the industry, all the stuff that--
So we have to make decisions, OK,
that sounds good, that makes sense,
or that--no, I think that's a waste of time,
or no, that sounds good, but it doesn't apply
to what I"m doing now.
I might do it six months from now.
Who has to make those decisions?
You do. You do.
So it means you cannot become a slave
to your to-do list because you will be faced
with new problems and opportunities every day.
How many of you face new problems
on a regular basis?
Hello.
How many actually face new opportunities
on a regular basis?
There you go.
So instead of just have a to-do list
that say, oh my god, I gotta--
how many have a to-do list, by the way?
Good, very nice.
That's already better than
most entrepreneurs, by the way.
Most entrepreneurs have no list, OK?
They kind of just do whatever.
But let's say you have a to-do list.
My challenge for you is, you question
your to-do list.
Not like, get up in the morning,
what do I need to do?
How many ask this question:
what I need to do today?
What do I need to do?
I'm saying, why the hell are you even
doing it at all?
You look at it and say, why am I even doing this?
And you question, well, maybe I should--
I don't need to do this.
Or it's just an obligation, maybe it's not that important.
Nah, let me cross that out.
Or nah, that's just distraction.
No, I don't need to do that.
And out of that, cut it back, maybe all you
have to do is this, instead of that.
Again, not about managing time,
managing ourselves.
We have to question.
And then you eventually, you also have,
what I have, your own to-do list,
and you also have other people's to-do list.
And your other people's to-do list
should be a lot bigger than your to-do list.
OK? So my to-do list, let's say,
is about a page, two page.
Other people's to-do list about 20 pages, right?
So my job is hold them accountable;
are you doing what you say you're gonna do?
Communication is message sent,
message received, and message acted upon.
Say it again: communication is message sent,
message received, message acted upon.
Acted upon, OK?
So take two minutes, how long?
Discuss among the people what you've learned so far,
what it means to you, OK?
Two minutes, go.
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