Dealing with time wasters

yes that is right we need to get everything we enjoy doing ou of our lives now so that we spend every moment working and saving money for when we are to old to work anymore ,, frail decrepit and decaying un able to do much we would enjoy .

successfull people tend to play harder and enjoys doing stuff that makes money .


now before i read the thread i was think i was going to read something about how to deal with people who find a way to waste your time .

that is a much bigger problem when you are working for others and working for yourself ..the mass of unproductive people who place must attend meetings about increasing productivity during the most productive parts of the day .

"time wasters" is a factor in all of our lives. The main challenge is how do we control our time? I have gone thru periods in my life where I let time control me(i just went along with what ever happened) Most of my life I have tried to control time with organized methods of focus and structure. I think one of the most important aspects of not wasting our time is realizing that we are in control. We either take action to control our time or time controls us. Which will it be?

One misconception that I keep seeing is that we "Control" or "Manage" our time.
We DO NOT control or manage time. Who was the last person that you knew
who could speed up or slow down time? What we can do is control ourselves.

If we control the things that we do with the time that we are given,
then can we increase our efficiency and productivity.

Once when I was writing I stopped to read a sentence I had written.

"The only reason I spend all my time working is so I someday I could do anything else".

The moment I realized how utterly flawed this thinking is, was the moment I started living a life instead of waiting for it to begin.

There's no need to completely purge your life of "time-wasters."

Besides, most of these activities help us recharge. If we don't enjoy our time, what's the point?

I learned I needed to take control of my time wasters.

Rather than completely stop chatting with friends on Facebook, I limited it to 5 minutes a couple times a day.

I use my "time wasters" to pause from work for a little so I can dive back in with renewed focus.

Wasting time is useful especially if you wait to other people in the restaurant, park or any place that you're waiting.

Hi there,

A good book I read on this subject is NO BS Time Management by Dan Kennedy. While I think it's difficult to implement all of the ideas he puts forward just putting a couple in place will definitely improve your time management skills.

All the best,

Sasha.

As I mentioned in some other thread, awareness is the first step towards reducing the time we're wasting. I've used ManicTime to track every minute of my day and I now know exactly what I want to eliminate from my life. Our reasoning is really flawed when we think about our own lives and how we spend our time. We don't want to admit that we spend 1 hour every day on FB and we will make rationalizations or even kick that fact out of our awareness. That's why software solutions like these can be so powerful.

As to dealing with time wasters, what I found that works great for me is to pick a period of the day where I will work the shit of myself! It's usually when I wake up (7AM) up until 12AM-1PM. That's my get-shit-done time and I don't allow myself to waste any time whatsoever. After that period has passed, I'm free to do whatever I want to.

I'm self-employed and I have the whole day on my hands. Few years ago I "worked" all day long. But in reality I was working for 1/2 hour then I would watch a TV show or check my FB etc. I was working 16 hours each day but in reality I was in fact really working for 3-4 hours.

That's when I decided to try this approach - make a period of the day for work and work only. It changed everything because I would eliminate all distractions for that period of time and I would just work for 5-6 hours straight.