How will you spend your time in 2006

A newsletter article by Steve Martinez

Where the Selling Process is working

How will you spend your 525,600 minutes this year?

If you are reading this newsletter at work, you are spending a few of your 1,944 work minutes. If you are reading this at home, you could be investing some of your 1,952 fun minutes. The plain truth is that we have over half a million minutes to use in 2006. It seems like a lot doesn’t it. If you are a numbers person, you have already added up these numbers in your head and know that they don’t quite add up and are thinking, AHHH HA! Relax and don’t get your knickers in a knot. You can have some fun by looking at the numbers yourself to see how we came up with the equations. Click here to get the worksheet.

I spent some of my minutes coming up with a time management worksheet to help YOU think about how to spend your minutes in 2006. For example, I learned that my heart will beat about 63 million times in 2006. This was an easy calculation assuming a 120 heart beats a minute.

You will benefit from using the worksheet to manage your schedule and demands. The exercise might change your mind about how you will spend your minutes this year. For example, I will spend 70 minutes in 2006 cutting my lawn. This is based on cutting every three weeks and my normal time of 4 minutes each occasion. What do you think? Maybe I need a smaller yard or a gardener. Maybe, Sallie, my wife will start cutting it for me.

Making the most of our time in 2006

One of my goals is to read a book a month. My 2006 resolutions are reading 30 minutes each day. I did this last year and it always seemed to result in extending reading. The secret to this goal was just getting started in the first place. Once you get started reading, it becomes harder to stop.

The examples we have for success are from people who don’t watch a lot of TV. Our leaders are selective about how they use their time and TV isn’t one of the priorities for achieving success in this life. If you review the worksheets on my website you will see that there is very little time for a successful person to watch TV.

Balancing our 1,944work minutes

We only have so much time each day for work which makes it important for us to manage our minutes. Blocking out time for the important tasks has to be a key objective.

When I think about great time users, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln each come to mind. They accomplished so much with so little. They read books and wrote down their thoughts and used their imagination to solve problems. Our minds are wonderful tools and it is a shame to waste them. Planning our day will help us use our time and talents on things that will make a difference. Use the work sheet to balance your time. If you have questions or want help in these areas, give me a call.

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Steve Martinez, Where the Selling Process is working

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