Time Management Mastery

By Bob Lancer

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Time management mastery takes time management to a new level, because time management mastery is about how to accomplish more without rush. Most time management articles, books and seminars focus on how to do more in less time, but rarely if ever, until now, do they deal with the crucial importance of eliminating rush.

Time management mastery focuses on the elimination of rush for a couple of very important reasons. First, the more you rush the more mistakes you make, the more stressed out you feel, the more run down you make yourself, the shorter your patience, the more superficial and less reliable your judgment, the more joyless and pointless life seems.

Another cost of rush is compassion. The more you rush, the more irritable and the less compassion you demonstrate. You generate more animosity and less good will,and create more strife than harmonious cooperation in relationships.

Rush also costs you your health. The nervous intensity and anxiety involved in rush drives your physical organism too hard, making you more prone to illness. And if you already have a health issue, rush is bound to make it more severe.

In sum, the more you rush the lower your level of your performance, the less support and the more opposition and contention you receive from others, and the more health problems you are bound to encounter. This makes your road to success harder and maybe longer, if not impossible. It also means that you are making the time that you have less satisfying.

Time management mastery is about making the most of your time. This means making the most of opportunity to experience fulfillment right now. You really don't have to wait for your fulfillment. Right now offers you a path to fulfillment. Time management mastery is about focusing on your present experience, observing how you are actually creating your present experience, so you can release yourself to greater fulfillment right now.

Every moment, regardless of what is happening, gives you an opportunity to learn how to make the very most of it. And we know of no limit to how wonderful this moment can be for you.

We can define time management mastery as the ability to make the present moment a beautiful experience. As you practice making the most of this moment, you grow in this mastery.

Every moment is your opportunity to develop your time management mastery. You develop this quality when you concentrate on making the most of this moment. You waste your opportunity to develop time management mastery when you focus on what is keeping you from fulfillment, instead of focusing on finding the way to fulfillment that is available to you now.