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  Thursday, November 20, 2008

Quotations 
by the Sages
Read the Wisdom
of the Ages

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour? 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.  Leonardo Da Vinci

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back. 
Harvey Mackay:

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions. John Randolph

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. 
Laertius Diogenes

 

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go. 
Josh Billings

 

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TIME MANAGEMENT & PERSONAL EFFICIENCY
 
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TIME – OUR MOST PRECIOUS RESOURCE by Mark Dyble 
Time is our most precious resource – our most precious gift. Unlike money, once spent, our time is gone forever. So how do we make the most of what we have?
 
Over the coming weeks and months we’d like to share with you ideas on how to invest your time wisely. Our aim is to keep things simple as an encouragement to use these techniques to improve the return on your (time) investment.
 
One of the first steps is to understand what we’re doing with our time currently. This is as simple as keeping a log of what we do during our waking hours. We can then analyse what we’ve done and determine how we might want to change this. (A beneficial by-product of this process is that one tends to do fewer ‘delusional and distracting’ activities just because we’re keeping a record of everything we’re doing!)
 
…and let’s dismiss one excuse straight away. “I just don’t have the time”. We all have the same 24 hours in everyday. During our day, we choose to do one thing and not to do another. It’s our choice and we will make that choice based on what’s most important to us. 
 
Here is my challenge to you! Get a copy of the Positive Input Time Log, which is free to anyone who requests it. Just click Time Log and they will send it to you as a download which you can copy as many times as you wish.
 
Then fill it in for week and fax a copy to me. I will give you a complimentary 10 minute review over the phone. My Fax number is 0870123 1698
Don’t forget to write your name and phone number at the top.
Mark Dyble - Action Coach markdyble@actioncoach.com
  
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CLEAR YOUR CLUTTER WITH FENG SHUI by Karen Kingston
Sometimes people are embarrassed to say an unfamiliar word in case they get it wrong. The Feng is said as it looks but the Shui is pronounced Shwe to rhyme with ‘weigh’.

This book tells us more about clutter and what it does to us than about Feng Shui. However the insight that this oriental philosophy provides is that clutter is blocked and stagnant energy.
 
As one reads though this easy to read and sometimes amusing book, one finds ones motivation comes up to do something about the clutter accumulations in one’s life.
 
Karen has made a speciality of teaching people about ‘space clearing’. She tells us: ‘The word “clutter” derives from the Middle English word “clotter” which means to do coagulate – and that is about as stuck as you can get’
 
She provides some helpful categories for seeing the different kinds of clutter than can afflict us. For example:
1 Things we do not use or love
2 Things that are untidy or disorganised
3 Too many things in too small a space
4 Anything unfinished
 
She goes on to list 19 ways that clutter affects us disadvantageously. She goes on to give us a very clear list of the reasons we hold onto to clutter, none of them good.
 
Her recipe is to take is to take one a room at a time, or one part of a room, or one a cupboard, or even one shelf of a cupboard, at a time.
 
Our job is to clear the clutter and free the energy that is stuck there. This energy is then free to come back into our lives. As Karen says: ‘Letting go of clutter leaves you free to be you, which is the greatest gift you can give yourself’.
 
Clear your Clutter with Feng Shui by Karen Kingston -179 pages – Broadway Books - available from Amazon - prices from £1.90 - to check pricing options click image in right hand column
  
     

Ambitious people usually set themselves more to do than allow time to do it.

The twin ills of our time seem to be shortage of time and the stress that causes.

How many times do you hear people saying ‘I didn’t have time’, ‘I ran out of time’ ‘There wasn’t enough time’ ‘ I need to manage my time better’, ‘I need more time’. ‘I don’t have enough time to do all the things I want to’. Maybe you hear yourself saying some of these things, I certainly do!
 
For some reason we are trying to avoid a very clear truth. We all have only 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Time is the most inelastic thing there is. It is a standard currency all over the planet. We cannot change it! All we can change is ourselves!
 
The apparent shortage of time in our life is because of a mismatch between what we are trying to do and the way we are trying to do it and the time we have available to do it.
 
What is the most obvious sign when a person is not in control of their time? It is usually that there life is full of the clutter of things they have not been able to handle or complete.
 

To be in control of our time, or more accurately our activity and the space we live in, has been a dream for centuries. Can you be sure that if you give time to one thing you can feel confident that others will get their due attention? With the tools available to us today we have a better chance than we have ever had.
  
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