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The Reality Regarding Time Management
Оглавление“In the meanwhile, I work only half-days – just 40 hours a week.”
Does this sound familiar? At the end of a workday you take stock and realize that you were active the entire day and managed to complete a lot – just not any of the things you had intended to get done.
How would you answer the following questions for yourself?
• Do you have the feeling that you react more than you act?
• Do you feel torn between, on the one hand, urgent tasks and, on the other hand, more long-term matters that also need your attention?
• Do you somehow manage to meet your deadlines after all, although you pay the price in terms of many hours of overtime or extreme stress?
If your answer to even one of the above questions was yes, then we have a few exciting topics for the time we will be spending together throughout this book. The aspects described above are the most common ones that come up at the beginning of events on the topic of time intelligence. Many people are convinced that the situation is particularly extreme in their specific environment, which is completely understandable from a subjective standpoint. Interestingly, though, this belief is widely held, regardless of a person’s exact occupation or position. Be it staff or management, be it in the area of banks, business consulting firms, hotels, software developers, government agencies, or the wood-processing industry – it turns out many people are waiting for things to “calm down” again soon.
The bad news is that things are not going to calm down. The world is turning faster and faster. The knowledge available to humanity doubles every five years or so. Modern communication media have changed the world radically and will continue to do so, with ever increasing strength and speed. Do you remember how cell phones and email were originally extolled as devices for saving time? As useful as these technical options can often be, most people, paradoxically, now feel that they have less time, rather than more. How does it seem to you? Do you have the freedom you wish for, the freedom that comes from being in control of your own time?
