How To Manage Time

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How To Manage Time

Are you having trouble figuring out how to manage time so you can create the life you really want?

As another Sunday night approached, the familiar feeling of, "I don't want to go back to work" crept back up.

"I'd love to be self-employed," I thought, "but, I don't have the time to start a side business." I had been saying this for three years.

Sound familiar?

Three years of mild depression on Sunday nights, followed by a longing to be free and do work I loved. Which, then, was always followed by the thought, "I don't have the time."

It is not true that I want to be self-employed and it is not true that I don't have the time. If, after three years of wanting it - but not doing a darn thing to make it happen - then it must not be true. I stand here unchanged, therefore I must not really want to change.

If I really wanted to be self-employed, then I would make the time. There is always enough time.

Time wasn't what I lacked. Commitment was. The thing is, nobody wants to say truth, "I want it, but I'm not really committed to making it happen."

When you really want something, you find the time to make it happen. When you have passion and drive, you are compelled to put in the time. It's hard not to work on getting what you want. Worrying about how to manage time evaporates.

With commitment comes razor sharp focus and you bring the best of yourself to the situation. You don't hold anything back.

For me, I used to worry that I focused on the wrong things, and, as a result, I tried to do everything. I constantly worried that whatever I was doing wouldn't "work out" or help me to "get ahead."

Consequently, I did a lot of things poorly and nothing done well. I wasn't focused or committed on anything. I felt defeated and trapped in life because I was overwhelmed.

The cure is focus and commitment. Focusing on one thing at a time makes it impossible to be overwhelmed. When all of your energy is directed on one thing at a time, then you are unstoppable and time doesn't matter any more. You stop thinking about "lack" and instead you think of creative solutions for how to manage time. Life is on your side again.

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After Years of Misery from Anxiety and Depression, I Gained My Life Back

Exhausted? Stressed-out? Overwhelmed?

Hi,

Courtney here, author of this site. When I developed anxiety and depression, I went to a psychologist, a psychiatrist and a physician, and to be truthful, in my experience, these people couldn't really help.Therapy sessions, yoga and getting more exercise lessened my anxiety symptoms, but did not stop them for good.

In fact, I later learned that because I was living in a constant state of low-level stress and anxiety, the chemicals in my brain had changed, making me more anxious and depressed. Clearly, merely managing my symptoms was not enough - in fact, following "the doctor's orders" made things worse....