Can You Really Manage Time?
| An experienced sky diving instructor always made an effort to answer questions
from his students - even when the queries reflected the inexperience and lack
of knowledge of the pupils. One day, a new student asked, "If our chute doesn't
open, and the reserve doesn't open, how long do we have until we hit the
ground?" The jump master looked at the student and calmly replied, "The rest of your life." 
When you're plodding along in a job you don't like or when you're looking for
any job - like it or not, the rest of your life sounds like a long time. In a
get-it-all, be-it-all culture, if time is money, we conclude that getting more
done in less time must mean you get more money. We easily forget that, "Where
you are headed is more important than how fast you are going," (Author
unknown).A nagging focus on time management makes us want to increase the speed of our lives. Maintaining a focus on priority management helps us recognize the need to slow down. When our use of time is built around well-defined priorities, life is less a question of how much we can get done and more a question of whether or not something is worth doing at all. Frank Crane was painfully on target when he wrote, "Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something." It's much easier to whine about all we have to do than to assess our values and goals and make some hard choices about how we invest the 168 hours we receive at the start of each week. Like two teams in a highly contested play-off, priorities are fiercely competitive. The freedom to say, "Yes" to one option requires the courage to say, "No" to an opposing possibility. The amount of noise a priority makes, doesn't equate to its level of importance. Sometimes the things in our lives with the most lasting implications draw the smallest amount of attention. A career transition presents an unhurried opportunity to look at what's important to you and define your non-negotiables. If you know what you must have and what you won't give up, no matter how sweet the offer, you're well on your way to making wise decisions about your career. |
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