Who stole my time?

Many of my friends ask me

"How do you get time for all this? Writing, Trading, Photography, Tourism, Job etc.."

Well, while there can be a lot of nice-to-hear answers, but the real ones are my following tips which I developed over a period of time to "get time" for the things I love!

90% of the task-hurdles in our life are nuisance but unavoidable.

These 90% tend to leave little or no time for the balance 10% which are full of life but not high on the agenda of mechanical life!

Here are my no-more-secret "Best Time Management Tips" to manage mountains of tasks in fistful of time!

* Don't do that task!
Unless heavens will fall. There is maximum chance that nobody will be tracking it far enough!

* Delegate it!
Don’t do it yourself unless it is disposing of the bomb you assembled!
Don't keep the dog and bark yourself!

* Put the ball back in the other's court!
Only the serious task will survive the volley.
Encourage self service.
It's so easy to just order a task.
Answer question with a question!

* Don't give it "done" on a platter!
Never give a solution better than the problem.

* Take hell of a lot time…and demand for more!
…and nobody can blame you; you are still doing it!!

* Don't touch it before the 11th hour!
…chances are it won't be required by that time without any side-effects!
…and by delaying, you can check whether the bugger really needed it!
…90% of the tasks started are nothing more than noise, dust and tranquiliser pills to cover up
for real thinking.

* Start it with a lot of advertisement big-bang and park it silently behind the first bend!
Majority of the times, all the task-giver wants is to see action-initiation. That's all!

* Manage the expectations of the task-giver
Put water on it!

* Drag in the task-giver
He will forget about it! (That's what he wanted when he gave it to you!!)

* Postpone it
Useless tasks are balls which come back to remind you automatically!


All this is to separate the necessary from the unnecessary. Task generation has become the favourite passtime of the planet.

As Philip says in his masterpiece book 'Life Strategies' - "Do what works, do what matters!!!"

Only the task which matters should be done. Every other task is an overhead!

Reduce your stress, live longer, get promoted!