I was so excited when I went to bed last night because I was\nclimbing into bed before 10pm which is a really big deal for me given the fact\nthat I normally don\u2019t get to bed until well after midnight if not the wee hours\nof the morning. I had gone to great lengths\nto make sure I could be in bed early because I was determined to wake-up early\nat 6am sharp Monday morning so that I could hit the ground running on the\nmassive backlog of emails and to do lists that piled up over the summer. I was\nset on making this new week ahead my week of awesome productivity that would\nput me back on top of things again\u2026 I was pumped!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So imagine my surprise when from my deep sleep I hear my husband\u2019s\nvoice call out sleepily, \u201cWhat time is it?\u201d \nWhy would he ask me that question in the middle of the night? Obviously\nit wasn\u2019t morning yet or my alarm would have gone off\u2026 I\nreached over to grab my phone only to find that my alarm HAD already gone off\u2026.\nseveral times now\u2026 but I\u2019d been sleeping so deeply I hadn\u2019t heard Will Smith\nand DJ Khalid singing \u201cFriend Like Me\u201d (from the recent Aladdin Soundtrack)\nthat I use as my wake up tone. Then I saw it\u2026the current time was 9:30am\u2026.9:30am!?!\nI had slept in three and a half hours past the time I was to be up\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yeah\u2026.not exactly the best way to start off my week of awesome\nproductivity\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere is no such thing as time management. There\u2019s only\nactivity management in the time we\u2019re given.\u201d \n– Thomas Leonard<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sure, I\u2019d lost three and a half hours of my day but I quickly\nreminded myself that I had two choices \u2013 I could sit around and fret over the\nlost three and a half hours of my day and feel discouraged about it which would\nmake me fall even further behind, or I could decide to use that late start as\neven more motivation to jump right in and get hyper focused on getting as many\nthings done as I could in the time remaining today. I decided I\u2019d go with that latter\noption. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Worrying about how much time we have in the day isn\u2019t all that helpful. But focusing on doing the best we can with the time we do have is helpful.\u00a0 After all, there are a set number of hours in a day and nothing we do will change that – which is why we can\u2019t really manage time. But we can manage the activities we choose to do in the time that we have.\u00a0 We can choose to get focused and cut out any unnecessary distractions. We can choose to get right to work and not procrastinate those tasks we are dreading. We can choose to start off each day by jumping out of bed getting right to work. And we can choose to get hyper focused on getting one task at a time accomplished, then getting right into the next task and busting through as many tasks as we can in the time we\u2019ve got.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And when the day comes to an end we can be satisfied that we did our best to accomplish all we could and let that be enough\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n