Are You A Busy Bee Who Wants To Achieve More By Finding More Time But Can’t?

Then Answer The Big Question! Do you want to achieve more and make more time to do things you like to do? If you can answer honestly, ‘Yes, with me, it is purely time management,’ then there are some great instructional books available to help you prioritise your tasks, bunch telephone calls, do more things on the same journey and many more tips.

Yet if you have tried all that with only limited success and deep down you think it may be something else sabotaging you, then read on!

Could your problem really not be one of trying to improve your time management. Could it be something quite different? Could it be an unrelated inhibiting attitude?

I wonder if you have felt you were busy, sensed you weren’t achieving as much as you should, have used time management techniques, gained yourself more time, yet filled that time saved with yet more similar tasks, so that now you are more busy than ever?

Could it be that you like to feel busy no matter what?

As a child were your parents always busy? In fact were they too busy to stop and think? Do you think you could have imitated them?

Did you have teachers that made sure you were always busy?

Critically, do you feel guilty when you are not busy doing something, no matter what? Or worse, do you find the level of guilty conscience reaches danger levels if you spend some downtime doing something you want to do entirely for yourself?

Then, if you want it, you have gained complimentary membership of the Busy Bees Club! Please turn it down and reflect!

What has been going on? What are you doing?

Could you have become task list orientated, with too little prioritised? As soon as the list threatens to shorten, do you feel you are under performing if you do not refill it?

Truthfully, can any time management techniques work successfully with this approach?

Strange to tell, the solution lies far less in our ability to manage ourselves and far more in our attitude about ourselves. If we lack the external or internal mentoring which says I am entitled to slow down at times, I am allowed to spend time for myself, I can enjoy myself without feeling guilty because the truth is I make myself guilty – no one else does!

So it can be more than a relaxation issue. It can be one of perceived entitlement. We can have disentitled ourselves unwittingly too by turning this into a self-esteem and self-worth issue..

I would suggest to sufferers that they start by looking at their task list and doing a priority check. Ask yourself: ’Which task actually, truthfully and honestly is important to me in my life and which merely appears more urgent?’

This will help you to find that quality time for yourself.

Sir Gerry is a mentor and despite the time since it was first published recommends you read “First Things First” By Stephen Covey

Gerry is also an artist and an author of a cognitive novel in paperback called “Squaring Circles.” Details can be obtained from http://www.squaringcircles.co.uk