Just as people become addicted to drugs, food, cigarettes,and other such pastimes, people get addicted to the go-go lifestyles we all seem to live these days. My neighbour with three teenagers is constantly speaking proudly about her ability to manage multiple schedules and tasks and get it all done. Unfortunately, in the next breath, she also complains about never having enough time, about her day being totally fragmented to the point she can never concentrate on anything fully, and about never being able to spend “quality time” with her family.
It wasn’t until recently that she came to understand, unfortunately the hard way, that she needed to better control her time schedule instead of allowing it to control her. You see, the stress finally got to her and she became severely ill—the result, according to the doctor, of being on the go too much. Of course, not only did she suffer the illness (she has recovered nicely, thank you), but so too did her family suffer.
And it did not need to happen!
She used this “event” to analyse her lifestyle and daily routine and decided she needed to get a better handle on it. She now confesses to being a “reformed” time-a-holic (her words). But it was too dramatic of an event in her life to bring her to this realization. Many of us cannot afford such a dramatic event. So just as an alcoholic does, it’s time to assess — or reassess — our priorities.
Source:: 151 QUICK IDEAS TO MANAGE YOUR TIME by Robert E. Dittmer, APR..
