Stepcase Lifehack: "“Most people who attempt to learn a new time management system fail.”
I can’t prove the above statement with hard facts, but I have a sense that it’s true, based on my personal experience and observations. If success is defined as 100% successful implementation, then that statistic is most certainly true."
3 comments:
So I laughed when I saw this article, because the first thing I thought of was what I learned in meta-skills about time management about a week ago. I think it's really important to make sure that you have a time management system that works, and I know that it can be hard. There are so many different ways to try and organize your time, and when one system doesn't work it is often easy to just give up. I think the most important thing is to just keep trying until you find something that works for you. Another thing we all need to remember is that what works for one person isn't going to work for another. I sometimes wish that there was an easy recipe of how to manage your time, but I'm sure we all realize by now that there isn't. I know that I have been struggling with time management for a long time, and I think being in this program it is even more important than it has ever been to me. I am realizing that systems that have worked for me in the past are now failing with such a heavy work load... time to rethink it all I guess.
I agree with Allegra completly- I laughed when i saw this article thanks to Joe Pino's time management discussion last week. It echo's his thoughts exactly, but expounds upon the particular idea of how to make changes. We were instructed, wisely, to not make too many changes at once, just like this article, as that can become even worse to your time management techniques. But the idea that this article brings up, taking classes in changing habits to make them stick, is quite valid. Changing long ingrained habits is something i know that i have trouble with, so taking classes in that area could be useful not only for time management, but to other areas of my life such as a habit of drinking soda at every meal, or not getting a proper workout every day due to not telling yourself that its necessary. So i propose an addition to meta skills: habit changing (only partially kidding)
I definitely agree with the article that you must figure out how you function, what works and what doesnt for you personnally, before you can go out and try to change it. If you dont know the workings of your system, how can you make appropriate changes that will stay and be successful. I feel as though it is like trying to fix a toy without knowing how it was put together. You can do it, but often, it will just break again. But, if you have an understanding of how it works, you're more apt to fix the problem for good.
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