Waking up to a mental list of tasks, agonizing over opportunities missed, juggling work and home life AND time to write consistently for this blog, it all gives me a headache! As an entrepreneur (freelancer) I constantly struggle with “time management”. How do I keep groceries on the table, and pursue tasks that are closer to my own personal visions for the rest of my days? The only ANSWER I know is – Keep working on it. It’s easy to let the multitude of tasks and commitments at hand get the best of us, if we let it.
Wait a minute!
There are many great articles written from a practical business standpoint which address this issue. Most boil down to some simple ideas:
1. Make lists of tasks and then prioritize: Work on the most important things first.
2. Give yourself credit for small things, simple tasks completed. Pat yourself on the back when you reach small milestones. Many people are waiting for the BIG GLORIOUS VICTORY before they give themselves any credit. Sometimes that victory never comes. Don’t worry about it, celebrate small victories as they happen.
3. Schedule specific times for specific tasks. Like this blog, I schedule every Wednesday evening and early Thursday mornings to complete at least one post a week. It’s HARD, amidst everything else in my life, but I get it done because I have it SCHEDULED.
There is an interesting and in depth post this week from Entrepreneur Magazine – Read it here > 10 Time Management Tips that Work
“I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time” – Robert Earl Keen
READ ON – Great Songs and Quotes: TIME
Just as IMPORTANT: Take Time to Reflect
No doubt, tasks must be accomplished. If you just sit on the couch and dream all day, nothing happens except for an expansion of the waistline. So accomplishment is important, but it all must be balanced with some down time, some time for reflection, time to keep things in perspective. I find that music and the words of others is soothing to my psyche, and helps me refresh my outlook, and then get back to work!
Hope you enjoy these quotes and songs about time.
Remember:
There is always tomorrow but it won’t look much different if you don’t DO something TODAY.
Seven of my favorite tunes dealing with “Time”: Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan, Pink Floyd, Robert Earl Keen, Steve Miller Band, The Who, Steely Dan and Al Stewart, now THAT’s a Lineup! Enjoy along with more great quotes posted below.
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And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?
Tillie Olsen
Old and young, we experience the passage of time in our own way.
Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That’s probably why they get along so well.
Jonathan Carroll
By the time we’ve made it, we’ve had it.
Malcolm Forbes
Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
William Faulkner
Day: A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
Ambrose Bierce
For disappearing acts, it’s hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
Doug Larson
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
Golda Meir
It never stops, accepting that fact is difficult.
I took some time out for life.
James L. Brooks
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. Wells
If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
Francois Rabelais
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
Roger Babson
Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin
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Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
Dion Boucicault
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
Charles Caleb Colton
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
John Wanamaker
So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. Lewis
The present is a point just passed.
David Russell
The time I kill is killing me.
Mason Cooley
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery
Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.
Alan Lakein
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Thomas Hardy
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
Max Frisch
Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.
Henry Austin Dobson
Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Khalil Gibran
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
Faith Baldwin
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Henry David Thoreau
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
Giordano Bruno
Time is the longest distance between two places.
Tennessee Williams
Time is the wisest counselor of all.
Pericles
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
William Penn
“A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch me a child of five.” ~ Groucho Marx
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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
William Gibson
Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
M. Scott Peck
Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life.
Michael LeBoeuf
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
Nelson Mandela
Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.
Mark Helprin
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
Thomas J. Watson
Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
Adam Hochschild
You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke
You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin
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I love the quotes you shared here Tracy. They are inspiring and help keep my momentum for productivity.
If I may also add, one really good thing I did that helped me manage my time well was using a time tracking software called Time Doctor (http://www.timedoctor.com). Since it tracks my hours and tasks efficiently, it made me become more focused with the things I do. It was really a big help and for that I would recommend everyone to try it too.
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