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Effective time management is being effective with your activities in the given amount of time you have per day. We are all guilty of saying, “I don't have enough time to....If only I had more time......I don't want to spend time on.....” and so on and so on.

Understand, no one can spend time. How can we? No matter what, there will always be 365 days in a year, 24 hrs per day, and 60 seconds in a minute. What ever you do today ten years will eventually pass by. The real question we should ask ourselves is, “How do we value our time?”

In other words, what activities are you focusing on and valuing per second, minute, hour, and day? Are you engaged in activities that add increase and value to your life and others? That question should be your focus and applied to all areas of your life. In fact, if I was you, I would adapt the question, “Is this activity providing value and increase in my life and the life of others right now?”

The real achievers in life probably get more done and more accomplished in one month than what most people do in one year. And, I don't mean mindless busy work that doesn't have any contribution to their life or others. These achievers are wealthy, their mind is set to conqueror any goal and never stop until their vision is realized. What these major successful people learned to do was manage their activities within the given amount of time per day.

Effective time management means how to be effective with your activities in the given amount of time per day.

To do this, all it takes is a shift in mental attitude and change in habit. First, let's answer the questions below to find out where the majority of your time is spent on a given day.

• How many hours do you invest watching tv?
• How many hours do you invest at work per day?
• How many hours per day do you invest with your family? Friends? Significant Other?
• How many hours do you exercise per week?
• How many hours do you read per week (non-fiction books)?
• How many hours per week do you pray, meditate, relax, and/or get in touch with your source?

Answering the above questions will give you an idea of what you consistently value in your life. You see, you value what you focus and attend to. If you invest 10 to 12 hours at work per day, this usually means that you place high value on either earning money, providing service, or both.

Did you know that the average American invest about 7-8 hours per day watching TV! That's 8 hours that could be better spent on growing more harmony in your life financially, relationally, physically, mentally, and spiritually. Come on people! Let's value our time better and do things that create growth for ourselves and others.

Now that you know where you value most of your time, lets inventory the actions you take for one day. Tomorrow, from 8am till 2pm, keep a detailed log in a notebook of the activity you are doing and the time frame. For example, “Checked email 815 AM to 830 AM.” It doesn't matter if you are at work or at home, it's important to know what activities you do per day.

Are you checking emails for a total of 2 hours per day? Are you getting coffee and water for a total of 1 hour per day? Are you on the cell phone for 4 hours per day? Are you driving for 2 hrs per day? Are you engaged in effective time management activities for 6 hrs per day that further accomplish your goals?

That's where your focus and effective time management resides in, allocating and investing the majority of your time to further realize your goals. Everybody has busy work to do, everyone has obligations, and errands. What about your goals and their actions? How important are those? How important is it to become, achieve, and have what you want in life?

The key to effective time management is time chunking. Chunk your daily activities and goals in specific blocks of time. Make all of your phone calls in one chunk. Do all of your emails in another chunk. Schedule meetings in chunks. Work on goals in a different chunk of time. I think you get the picture.

When I started using time chunking, it helped me tremendously. I accomplished more per day, I had more time dedicated toward my goals, and there were less hassles and frustrations throughout the day. Time chunking pretty much prevented my head from spinning off.

Use as many chunks as you would like. Maybe two activities are considered a chunk or a group of four could be considered a chunk. The point is you're grouping actions so you stay more focused and have a consistent rhythm throughout the day.

The concept of “spending time” is a false point of view. Learning effective time management means the mastery of activities.

Most of us have been conditioned to view time in a “spending” manner rather than an “investment.” Be patient with yourself and continue to apply the correct application of time mastery.

The first law of learning is recognition, which now you have realized what effective time management is and whether you do it. The second law is repetition. By knowing where you invest your time, what activities you value the most, and using time chunking, you're on the way to becoming a goal achieving machine!

Vertical Time

By now, you should have a good understanding that “activity management” is the only thing we can control. However, there is more to learn about the function of time and effective time management.

The understanding of “vertical time” is an effective time management concept that will increase your speed to realizing your vision and make goal achieving 99.9999% more likely.

Most of us see time functioning in a linear fashion. There is a past, a present, and a future. If you are sitting on the couch reading this article as we speak, this is considered happening now. Earning the state championship trophy 10 years ago in high school would be considered your past. Becoming a millionaire as your 5th year goal would be considered the future.

The concept of linear time is not effective time management, in my opinion. If you are becoming a conscious individual by achieving greater results, reading the books that help you grow, and applying yourself to matters that increase your life, then you understand that there is truth in this universe that is never at fault.

Read the article on goal setting theory first, then come back to this article and this spot once you're done. Did you do it? Great! As I stated before, we tend to perceive time in a linear fashion. You have a past, present, and future. So, if you can create anything you want in life by aligning your thoughts, feelings, and actions with universal principles, tell me, how is there a future if it is happening now?

When you form a thought in your head of having a successful and fulfilling romantic relationship, you are thinking that now. You have that realization on the mental plane right now. You then feel the feelings of that ideal right now. So, you begin to take action toward that realization, which again, happens now. When you take the action, when are you taking it? At that very moment, now!

Let me try to clear this one aspect of effective time management some more for you. Say that you are 23 years old. When you were in 1st grade, lets say that you decided to skate board down a grassy hill, ran into a tree, and broke your arm (yes, it really happened to me). Now, I want you to point, with your index finger, where the past is and that event happening. “It's, It's somewhere behind there by that window.” Now, let's say your 5th year financial goal is becoming a millionaire. Point in the direction of the future and where becoming a millionaire resides. “It's somewhere up there, in front of me?” You can't do it. It's all just mental constructs.

I'm sure you have heard the expression, “The past is haunting me” and “history repeats itself.” You hear someone talking about a horrible experience that they can't let go of. Then, lo and behold, that experience or something similar keeps popping up in their lives. What's up with that?!?

Well, that's because time is functioning on a multi-level existence or vertical fashion. Quantum and system theorist are beginning to prove a theory called the M theory, or membrane theory. This theory identifies that there are at least 11 other dimensions existing simultaneously, right now.

This means in one dimension you can be flat broke, but in another you are a multi-millionaire. We all have heard rags to riches stories. Did you know that Colonel Sanders use to live in his car until his Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises finally hit. At that time, the appearance of Colonel Sanders may have been a failure, loser, and flat out broke. However, the truth is rarely in the appearance of things. Materialistically, Sanders may have been broke, but on the inside I guarantee his universe was wealthy and rich. And, his results proved it.

He wasn't broke yesterday, then today became an instant millionaire. As he grew in awareness about his own truth and the truth about his universe the quantum leap to the multi-millionaire dollar universe happened. He had it mentally and emotionally, right now. He took action, right now. It was just a matter of time before the universe caught up.

In an interview with Rolling Stone Magazine John Lennon said, “When the Beatles first got together and played music, we knew we were the best band in the universe. We were just waiting for the rest of the world to catch up.”

Change your view about time and see your world has everything happening now. From this point of view, you will begin to choose your thoughts and actions carefully. Begin to realize that everything you want you already have. When you have your desires on the inside, it's only a matter of time before the universe catches up. You choose which universe to participate in through your constant intention and attention. Those are the keys to effective time management. Learn and apply, learn and apply. Good luck!

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