Time, they say is money.Most workers are paid by hourly wages.If time is money, then how much is your time worth? How much does 1 hour worth to you?
Imagine having £1000 and spending it without keeping track of how the money was spent. You buy a little here and there and by the time you realize all the money is gone.Later you wonder and ask yourself: where did all the money go?
It’s the same with time. It flies too. Time is the best resource the Lord God has blessed us with.The good thing is that we all have equal amounts of time. The rich and poor has the same amount of time (24 Hours a day) at their disposal. The only difference is how we use it.What we make out of time determines the kinds of results we get.If we use our time wisely, we reap great benefits.Likewise if we use our time unwisely, we reap poor results.
In Ephesians 5:16 the Bible says “making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.” There are distractions all over and around us. To really stay focus on achieving our goals we need to manage our actions well.
You cannot manage time, but you can manage your actions. Action is what produces results. In order to be achieve our goals we need to manage our actions.
Below is an excerpt from David Allen’s bestselling book, “Getting things Done, The Art of Stress-Free Productivity”
“The Process:Managing Action
You can train yourself, almost like an athlete, to be faster, moreresponsive, more proactive, and more focused in knowledgework. You can think more effectively and manage the resultswith more ease and control. You can minimize the loose endsacross the whole spectrum of your work life and personal lifeand get a lot more done with less effort. And you can make frontenddecision-making about all the “stuff” you collect and createstandard operating procedure for living and working in this newmillennium.Before you can achieve any of that, though, you’ll need to getin the habit of keeping nothing on your mind. And the way to dothat, as we’ve seen, is not by managing time, managing information,or managing priorities. After all:
• you don’t manage five minutes and wind up with six;
• you don’t manage information overload—otherwise you’d walkinto a library and die, or the first time you connected to the Web,or even opened a phone book, you’d blow up; and
• you don’t manage priorities—you have them.
Instead, the key to managing all of your “stuff” is managingyour actions.
Managing Action Is the Prime Challenge
What you do with your time, what you do with information,and what you do with your body and your focus relative to your priorities—those are the real options to which you must allocateyour limited resources. The real issue is how to make appropriate choices about what to do at any point in time. The real issue is how we manage actions.”