| How many times do you check your e-mail a day? | | | | will only check your e-mail once a day, only look at |
| How many times do you check your Facebook a | | | | your favorite website every other day, only see |
| day? How much time do you waste checking | | | | your Facebook messages a few times a week, only |
| updates on your favorite website (for me that would | | | | watch 30 minutes of television a day, etc. etc. |
| be Huffington Post). Could much of our success in life | | | | Compared to many generations in the past, we |
| be determined by how we control our time? How | | | | actually have a lot of free time. I know as a teacher, |
| much time do we waste everyday, and then say we | | | | I have even more free time (2 full months in the |
| are just too busy? I know personally that I struggle | | | | summer and one at Christmas). However, we seem |
| with this control over my own time management and | | | | to always fill it up with something, even if it |
| it actually interferes with many of the things I want | | | | something that is not really worthwhile or helpful. I |
| to do in life. | | | | am sure that I could write much more, learn Spanish |
| The first step to controlling out time is to know what | | | | a whole lot better, improve my guitar skills, and |
| our goals are. If we don't know what we want to | | | | perhaps even start some new company, if I could |
| accomplish, we will never achieve our goals, and we | | | | control my time better. In the end, the lack of |
| will waste a whole lot of time doing nothing of value. | | | | control over our time not only leaves us with fewer |
| One simple idea is to write down your goals. | | | | goals achieved but also with less joy and satisfaction |
| However, I think we have all done this to a certain | | | | within. I would encourage you today to start |
| extent (perhaps, every January 1st)- the key is to | | | | watching more closely how you control your free |
| continue and check them on a daily basis- to make | | | | time. Learning control in this area will help you achieve |
| sure they are really being accomplished in life. | | | | more of your goals and dreams, and it will also help |
| Secondly, we need to actually learn to control the | | | | you gain even more self control in all areas of your |
| "time wasting" drains in our lives. For example, unless | | | | life, which as we talked about before will equal more |
| it is necessary for your job, you could say that you | | | | joy and peace. |