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Quit Managing Your Time… and Start Managing Your Attention
« on: September 11, 2009, 12:59:56 PM »
"The myth of time management never dies. Many people enroll in 'time management' classes and learn techniques like making to-do lists. That’s fine. Lists can be useful, even satisfying. It’s great to experience that rush—Ahhhh!—as we check something off the list. However, by the end of the day, or the week, or the month, most people discover projects that are still not checked off and some projects they haven’t even started. That’s when frustration begins to set in. The time is gone, and there’s no way to get it back.

You can’t manufacture time, you can’t reproduce time, you can’t slow time down or turn it around and make it run in the other direction.

You can’t trade bad hours for good ones, either. About all the time management you can do is to cram as much productive work as pos¬sible into each day.

What you can manage, however, is your attention.

Attention is a resource we all possess. It’s a lot like time. In fact, as long as we are awake, we produce a continuous stream of it. But how effectively do we use this valuable resource? That depends on where we direct our attention and how intensely we keep it focused to produce the desired results.” - Lee J. Colan & David Cottrell


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Re: Quit Managing Your Time… and Start Managing Your Attention
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2009, 02:20:08 PM »
Thanks for posting this one, but I think a person should learn to categorize or prioritize things to be done. It common here in Europe in an effort to have it all instead of one at a time.
Hello stress, hypertension, diabetes and depression. :D

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Re: Quit Managing Your Time… and Start Managing Your Attention
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2009, 03:20:44 PM »
I guess attention management is as much a myth as time management is. All these management gurus got it wrong. It's all about knowing what you want to do with your life--then eveything falls in place. If what you want to do in let time swim through your head like a shower of constellations, well, that's your life. Kon gusto kang mahimong dakong tawo nga ilhon sa kadaghanan, aw, imo na nang diskarte--although personally I don't endorse it. Man wasn't made (or didn't come to be) to feed the vanity that visits empty heads every so often.

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Re: Quit Managing Your Time… and Start Managing Your Attention
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2009, 07:42:08 PM »
For me, managing my time by making a to do list is better.
I can not do something, unless i have a list to focus on.
(i mean, i usually have more than 5 things to do daily in my bizniz.)

Attention for me is just a minute detail of each thing to do.
It is just like putting attention on sharpening the knife
para di mahiwa imong tudlog apil.

But i am always listing in a square according to:
1. Urgent, Urgent
2. Urgent, Important
3. Important, Not Urgent
4. Not Urgent, Not Urgent

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