I don’t know about you, but I never seem to have enough time and I often feel like I am wasting time that I should be doing something. I took a time management course a few years ago and recently revisited the materials and found I had fallen back into my same old bad habits. One habit that clutters your life and makes you feel like you are wasting time is the “I’ll never do” things.

 

The “I’ll never do” things are the little odd jobs like cleaning the garage or basement. At business they may be reading a paper written that was of some interest to you or going through all that old e-mail and sorting it and tossing out what is un-important. The trick to handling these is to just realize you are never ever going to get to them, so just ignore them and do what is most important. Take those hundreds of e-mails that did not require any action and create a dump bin folder and put them there. Wow your in box has 3 or 4 things now, not a hundred; you can do those 3 or 4 things.   If your garage is a mess, either accept it or hire the neighborhood kid to do it. 

 

The nicest thing is you don’t feel like you are being pushed to get things done the pressure is off and you accomplish more. Life is much simpler when you learn to just ignore the work that will never get done.

 

Ron