In order to change your life, you need to change how you do what you are currently doing.  As always, if things are going great for you, what is the need to change?  On the other hand, if you are looking for ways to make things better for yourself, then change is in order.  I have been working with people for more than 30 years on ways that they can change their lives, improve them, and end up being happy more contented people.  With more than 60,000 plus people that have attended my seminars, patterns emerge as to what works and what does not.

Actions Are Required

Talk is great, but talk is just the start point.  I want to change my life, has to be followed with “and this is how I intend to do it”.  Changing our lives is an action activity; it’s a verb and it needs to be infused with action.  I have a saying, “when in doubt, do something, anything, action is very rarely the wrong thing to do”.  In this case, there is a missing link that almost all people need to find.  When they do, it will change your life.

Actions Have To Be Tied To Specific Time Slots

You have pulled a goal out of your Power Living Life List, you have moved that goal into your time management system, and you are now ready to turn a wish into a reality.  What is the next step?  Most people falter here; they get stalled because they now have to compete with their daily schedules, which were full before they pulled this goal out of the stack of other goals and decided that they wanted this one to get time, effort and resources, along with everything else.

This is the great equalizer we all face.  The time where the rubber meets the road, the time where wishes meet head long with the reality of a shrinking inventory of time in the face of ever increasing demands on this shrinking non renewable resource.  It’s always a pretty simple case of supply and demand; our demand is always outpacing our inventory, the story of all of our lives.

What Is The Answer?

The value of a good time management system is that it solves this problem for us; it makes sure that the things we really want to do get accomplished.  It does this by following one simple rule, time activate the really important things in your life. The things that will change your life will be the activities that you end up doing if you follow the proper procedures and times activate the right tasks.

Time activating a task is securing a specific time slot in your day planner for that task. You want to spend some time tomorrow on finding a new soft ware program for your computer, you would set aside, time activate, the time slot between 2:00 and 3:00 to perform this task.  You physically write in your day planner that between 2:00 and 3:00 o’clock you are going to work on finding a new soft ware program for your computer.

Regardless of what happens tomorrow, you know that you have the time to do one task that you want and need to do.  Everything else that is going to happen tomorrow is now going to be worked around this priority.  By time activating tasks, you are ensuring that the time required to do them is reserve red specifically for them, its like making a reservation at a restaurant, when you arrive, you know there will be a table waiting for you.

Change Your Life By Time Activating What Is Important To You

If you want to get something accomplished, you need to protect that activity from everything else around it. If it sounds like you need to protect yourself and what you want to accomplish in life, that is exactly what I intend to say. There is no conspiracy out there that is intent on disrupting your life and schedule, but the truth is, there are many distractions and outside forces that by their very nature seem to conspire against us when we are trying to get our agenda accomplished.

You need to have every advantage you can get when it comes to doing the things that will change your life, you want to increase the odds as much in your favor as you can and one of the best ways to do that is to learn how to time activate the priorities that will turn your goals into reality.

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