Time Management Proven Techniques for Making Every Minute Count

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wish I had spent more time at the office.”

History has never recorded these as anyone’s last words.

I’m fairly sure it never will.

“I wish I’d spent more time with my family” is a much more

likely deathbed sentiment.

List the three things in life that mean the most to you. Taken

together, they might be your reason for living.

Here’s how Americans completed that list in a recent national

survey. The number listed next to each item indicates the percent-

age of people surveyed who listed it among their top three priori-

ties. (So obviously the numbers add up to more than 100 percent.)

priority pE rc ENtagE

Family life 68%

Spiritual life 56%

Health 44%

Financial situation 25%

Job 23%

Romantic life 18%

Leisure time 14%

Home 11%

Got your list? Good. Now next to each of the three note the

amount of time you spend on it each week.

Shocked?

If you aren’t spending large chunks of time on the three ele-

ments you’ve listed as the most important priorities in your life,

there are three possible explanations:

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