Taking Control

One line in Elder Wirthlin's talk,  "Little Things are Important, really struck me. He said, "The question is not one of managing time, but one of managing ourselves with the time we have." We here a lot about how to improve time management in our lives. When really, time management is self management. So what we are really saying when we need to improve our time management we are saying we need to manage ourselves better with the time we have. No one is given more than twenty-four hours in a day. There is no way to increase that fact. What I need to improve is how I am spending those twenty-four hours. Am I doing the things that are of most importance for that day? Or am I wasting away the minutes playing on my phone, browsing social media, or just plain being lazy and doing absolutely nothing?

Jim Ritchie touched on this in the Launching Leader video, "Take Control of Your Life". He reminds us that, assuming we are asleep for seven of the twenty-four hours, we have one thousand twenty minutes available to us a day for productivity. The power of our productivity comes in doing the things that will help us get to where we want to be tomorrow. He said, "Your personal productivity will increase each day. As you gradually reach these goals, you will become the type of human being you've always wanted to be." 

It is time that I take control of my life and manage myself in a way that maximizes the one thousand twenty minutes I have been given each day to become the person I have always wanted to be.