T I M E M A N A G E M E N T
Stop looking. You’ll never find time. It isn’t lost. You’re living
it. You have to consciously decide to live it in certain ways and not
others. You have to make time by taking it away from one activity
and giving it to another.
Conscientious and creative use of the to-do list can help here.
If you want to exercise three times a week, if you need to do some
long-range career and financial planning, if you care enough about
another human being to want to nurture your relationship, you
will schedule time for these things. Otherwise, you may not “get
to them,” and even if you do, you’ll give them only your leftover
time, when energy and focus are at their lowest.
You can make time for the important things in life by reducing
time spent on the items in the last category, the “neither important
nor urgent” area. But you shouldn’t wipe this area out completely
because there are a number of activities, things we do for fun or
just for the heck of it, that fall here.