What is the best use of your time?

Time could be considered a rare commodity these days especially when there are so many demands on our attention. Having not enough time is the enemy to those who want to accomplish many things in life. How do we start regulating our time and using it more wisely to get the most out of it? I’ve created a checklist to help optimize your time so you can live in a place freedom and ease allowing time to become your friend not foe.

1. Get clear on your priorities. What is highest value use of your time? Envision how you want your life to be. Make a list of all the things great and small you would like to accomplish in your lifetime. List what is meaningful and most important to you. It could be great relationship(s), climbing the corporate ladder, or traveling the world. Create a vision board and a plan on how to achieve those things. If having good family relationships is important to you, it’s worth devoting time to that even if you have lots of other items on your priority list. Life is too short to not focus your time on what will serve and satisfy you.

2. Realize your purpose. Life lived with purpose is not a wasted life. Figure out what your calling, destiny, or gift is that you would like to give back to others. Bear in mind that a calling or destiny can change as you evolve. Schedule your life around making time to devote to this purpose every day or as often as you can possible. Focusing on your passion can bring you fulfillment. Your purpose may be as simple as being the best dad you can be in this lifetime or the best concert pianist of your era gifting others with your talents. Whatever your purpose is make time for it and allow it to give back to you.

3. Protect your time. Create mental blocks on what you won’t waste your time on. Block out the things that do not support your best life. It is easy to get sidetracked with others who don’t value your time. Don’t let your energy and time get sucked by a friend or neighbor’s gossip or problem even if it feels nice to be needed or included but at the end of the day, they are responsible for the life they created. If you do get sucked into an issue outside of your plan, put a time cap on how much time you will devote to problem solving that issue. A time thief is anything you waste time on that you will never get back.

4. Finish projects before they expire. This may take a bit of concentration, but you need to finish what you start as soon as possible. If it is a more time-consuming project like writing a book, then you will need to schedule time every day to finish it. Projects have a tendency to pile up. Our lives are constantly changing. There is a time and season for everything. Do not put projects on the back burner if they can be done immediately. Projects expire, or our resolve to do them expires because new things pop up grabbing our attention. The things we want to do eventually become buried and forgotten that is why we must take action on them now.

5. Build habits and routines. Infuse your time with habits and routines that propel you towards your best life. If you have an overall goal of loosing weight. Build in time blocks to focus on exercise. Before I started writing it never came up as part of my routine every day. Now that I honor and have taken ownership of my time, it does. It’s the one routine I schedule everything else around because it is so important to me.

6. Avoid overthinking. Spending too much time on the thoughts that aren’t serving you will suck your energy and time. Do not focus on what others are doing, or what’s going wrong in your life. Focus more on your life and what is working well for you. Even your thoughts can become a waste of time if they are projected on the wrong things. Guarding your thoughts and keeping them in check can give you an advantage on the external from your internal. Reserve your mental capacity for problem solving on how to make better use of your time.

7. Stay in a state of expectancy. This helps to accelerate time. You can put a demand on the universe to help bring to you to what you want faster. Being in the flow, trusting, and holding expectations on what you want helps hastening process of bringing that thing to you. Always being in a state of wonderment breaks down the blocks and barriers in your way to reveal miracles which help accelerate your time. Outside sources and people will align with you and come to your aid which will hasten the process of attaining what you want and free up your time.

8. Be in the moment. Stay in the moment and be aware of your present reality. This mindfulness helps you stay grounded and in alignment. Do not waste your time linking up with realities that won’t ultimately serve you. Letting your mind wander to daydreaming or reflecting on irrelevant circumstances will put you in a place of floundering and distractions. You will get the most out of your time and life experience by living in the now. Forward thinking is ok if it is focusing on what you will create for your future.

9. Delegate. Give the less important tasks to others who can do them. This would include things that you would rather not do because your time can be leveraged doing something more important. Delegating to a team around you can free up your time so you can focus on your priorities. There are also many options available to assist with organizing and outsourcing the work that you don’t have time for.

10. Stay Organized. An excessive amount of time can be squandered searching for those lost keys or that missing shoe. Functioning in a highly disorganized environment can become overwhelming and time consuming. We can set ourselves up for success by organizing. Designate places for those essential items that play an important role in your daily functioning. Purge anything that you don’t use. Get a schedule book. Make a calendar. Do not own so many things that you end up spending precious time managing those items when your time could be spent on something better.

These are just a few ideas and tips for better time management. What are some of your tips?

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