Not For Slaves Time Management

March 11th, 2008 by galina

Surfing the Internet, I found a very interesting (german) article by Roland Kopp-Wichmann on time management from a psychological point of view.

His main theses are:

• You can´t manage time
  Time is not an object you can influence, time happens.

• Your values are reflected by your dealing with time
  If something is important to you, you spend time on it. Why would you do otherwise?
• Time is not money
  “Having more time for myself” is a desire independent of money.
• There are no factual constraints
  There are only situations and consequences. Or, as I would put it: there are decisions to make and prices to pay. If you are willing to pay a certain price, then there are no constraints.
• You always have a choice
  This is not a matter of true or false, but a matter of attitude. Not For Slaves!
• If you want something, you find ways. If you don´t want something, you find reasons.
  Be honest to yourself: If you did not do something, then perhaps because you did not really want it to do…
• If you want to have time, you have to say no.
  Freeing your agenda is as easy as that.

As we put it here: not for slaves!