73 – Have No Time, You’re Kidding

Just about everybody will say: “I have no time.” I’m sure you’ve heard that. Just about everybody utters it at some point. What in the world does it mean? First of all, very successful people look at you kind of funny or at least in their minds think of you kind of funny when you keep on saying you don’t have any time. Everybody has the same amount of time.

Time is the great equalizer. So much is wasted, that wise use can increase your relative success

First of all, you need to find time if you want to be successful, if you want to do something new, if you want to make changes in your life. More important: Change the expression. Don’t say: “I don’t have time.” Find another one. It sounds good, but: “I don’t have any time” is really just a great excuse. Why is it a great excuse? Everybody uses it, so it’s verified. It’s too easy and it’s not a positive outlook on your life or your future.

Before I go on, let me tell you for this episode I’m giving you a lot of summary and some details, but I will have a handout that you can get at www.LifeUnsettled.com/time. It’s a very detailed PDF that will give you a lot of suggestions you can work through and get more time in your life.

First of all, procrastination. Another thing that people don’t realize is many of the things they do that they think is accomplishing things. It’s all the little things that they do during the day, running the errands, basically busy work. Yes, it needs to be done, but it’s not the most important. It is a form of procrastination. It’s just disguised procrastination.

Some important things to keep in mind: Move on, that is don’t dwell on whatever you’re doing. Whatever you’re doing, if you can, set a timer for it. If you have an iPhone, an Android, or something, there’s a clock feature there that has a timer on it. If you think it’s going to take an hour and 50 minutes, two hours, an hour…set the time! Don’t go more than two hours on anything. Even serious, concentrated work, time it and push yourself to get it done to the best of your ability within that timeframe. You might go back and do some other work on it, summarize it, fix it up, etc. That’s almost like another task, so you’ve completed one and you’re going to do another one. You’re going to edit it or you’re going to fix it up, whatever it is.

Another is keep energy up. One of the problems with not having enough time sometimes is that your energy is not good enough, not strong enough, and that very often is that you really do have to take out and dedicate some time for regular exercise. That will keep your energy level up throughout the day. If you turn around, go to exercise or do something say at 3:30-4:00 in the afternoon, you will have that energy. You’ll get rid of the stress and you’ll have that energy into the evening.

Time is the most limiting factor, but also the great equalizer. There is income inequality, but no time inequality. We all get the same amount, every day!

Separate your high productive time. When are you most productive during your day? Is it in the morning? That’s what it is for me. Is it in the evening? Whenever it is possible, set that time aside and that’s when you get that harder work done. One of the things that I really concentrate well in the morning. A lot of people think that mornings are not good for them, but it may be better than they realize. One of the reasons is, in the morning you have no things that have interfered with anything yet, there’s no email that you’ve read and other things that you might’ve done that causes you to be thinking a dozen different directions. You just start out, take your shower, take your walk, whatever it is to wake up, water on the face, get your work done before you do your email or before your mind starts drifting off into other places.

On top of that, if the night before you were thinking about the topic or the project you were going to do that morning,