December Seventh Success Secret – John C. Maxwell

December 7, 2017 — Leave a comment

Don’t Manage Your Life – Manage Your Time                               

Here’s a controversial subject, some folks think that they can manage time. I agree with John, time cannot be managed, its infinite and you can’t buy more.

But if you think about it, you can buy time. If you’re in a position financially, you can pay someone to do the tasks you don’t want to, the things you’re not good at. That way you can have more time to do what you are really good at. As Charles Spezzano writes in his book What To Do Between Birth And Death: The Art Of Growing Up, “You don’t really pay for things with money, you pay for them with time.”

So let me get this straight, you don’t pay with money, but time? It takes time to make money.

If you pay someone to do the things that are not in your strengths or priorities, then you can make more money working in your strengths.

John outlines three things that people who manage themselves poorly are guilty of;

1)      They Undervalue Their Uniqueness Doing What Others Want Them To Do.

  • If you don’t control your time others will. Your life will follow their agenda. Make sure you schedule time to work and learn in your strength areas.

2)      They Ruin Their Effectiveness by Doing Unimportant Things.

  • Henry David Thoreau wrote, “It is not enough to be busy. The question is, ‘What are we busy about?’” How do you decide what is important for your most valuable asset, time?

3)      They Reduce Their Potential by Doing Things Without Coaching or Training.

  • It always amazes me when managers don’t encourage or even expect their employees to go to training. As John points out in this chapter that a if a organization invests 10 percent in capital expenditures they’ll get a 3.8 percent increase on productivity. But a 10 percent increase in training led to a 8.5 percent increase in productivity.

What do you do to manage your time? Everyone has the same amount of it during the day. The difference between success and survival is how you chose to use your time.

Think about the top two or three things that would give you the most value and focus on it till it’s done. You have to have a process and what works best for me is to just do it, even if you don’t feel like it.

~ John C. Maxwell, Leadership Gold

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