Among all the orders and tasks you listen from your boss, colleagues in the workplace, family, governmente, and requirements from your friends, you can find a particular group that you could call NHA’s or “non-hurrying activities”.
If you’re apparently responsible, you love your family and friends or you try to maintain your job, it would be easy to take care about the short term and very important activities, but there are some tasks and errands that may request a special and non usual skill: managing yourself.
Once upon a time, a busy engineer were at home preparing for going to work. While he was finishing his breakfast, his wife told him “There is a gap between the gardenias and the geraniums in our plantpots”. He didn’t answered anything because he was worrying for not getting late at work and finishing a coffe. At last, he kissed her “I love you, Mary. We’ll see later”. Some minutes later in a red highlight he considered the “gap-in-the-plantpot breakfast sentence”, and took his mobile and added a new task: “buy some planted tulips”. –Until this moment, everything appoints to a very good engineer tale, but in every tale always there’s a witch…- The days , weeks and months were passing by, and the tulips never arrived to the largepot. The task written in the smartphone was lonely an sad scoring down in the priorities list while the engineer worked and did a lot of very good things. It’s sure that Mary never was angry with him about this item, but the question is: Does Peter love Mary? Does He manage himself? –I’m sorry I prefer the reader try to finish the tale-.
We all would like to manage all the entire activities that are over our responsibility, but there are activities no one expects us to do although they have asked us in a past time. But we can do them. We can better manage ourselves with a little extra training:
1. Buy an “agenda”, or detect if your smartphone has Calendar, taskslist and e-mail.
2. Don’t delay in writing the new errands in the taskslist, though they’re not very much important or urgent. Note the appointments in the calendar.
3. Review two times per day the calendar and the taskslist. Distribute the task along the gaps in your calendar.
4. Try to eliminate all the tasks in the list.
If you’re apparently responsible, you love your family and friends or you try to maintain your job, it would be easy to take care about the short term and very important activities, but there are some tasks and errands that may request a special and non usual skill: managing yourself.
Once upon a time, a busy engineer were at home preparing for going to work. While he was finishing his breakfast, his wife told him “There is a gap between the gardenias and the geraniums in our plantpots”. He didn’t answered anything because he was worrying for not getting late at work and finishing a coffe. At last, he kissed her “I love you, Mary. We’ll see later”. Some minutes later in a red highlight he considered the “gap-in-the-plantpot breakfast sentence”, and took his mobile and added a new task: “buy some planted tulips”. –Until this moment, everything appoints to a very good engineer tale, but in every tale always there’s a witch…- The days , weeks and months were passing by, and the tulips never arrived to the largepot. The task written in the smartphone was lonely an sad scoring down in the priorities list while the engineer worked and did a lot of very good things. It’s sure that Mary never was angry with him about this item, but the question is: Does Peter love Mary? Does He manage himself? –I’m sorry I prefer the reader try to finish the tale-.
We all would like to manage all the entire activities that are over our responsibility, but there are activities no one expects us to do although they have asked us in a past time. But we can do them. We can better manage ourselves with a little extra training:
1. Buy an “agenda”, or detect if your smartphone has Calendar, taskslist and e-mail.
2. Don’t delay in writing the new errands in the taskslist, though they’re not very much important or urgent. Note the appointments in the calendar.
3. Review two times per day the calendar and the taskslist. Distribute the task along the gaps in your calendar.
4. Try to eliminate all the tasks in the list.
Don’t forget that “agenda” means in latin “Things are to be done”. It’s sure this analysis is quite simple, but have you tried walk up along these stair steps? I hope you buy tulips today or tomorrow!
