Make time to get more time

- Some people know that they have a problem with time management. They know that they need to improve. They know they are too busy, and they are constantly multitasking, and someone reaches out to them and says hey, you should go through a course, maybe a course like Dave Crenshaw's Time Management Fundamentals, and sometimes these people who are in such a desperate situation when it comes to their time management may say something like I'm too busy to take time to go through a course like that. Sound strange? I've heard this story many times, individuals who can't find the time to make more time. Perhaps you're in that situation. If so, let me offer you some perspective and a solution. First, when someone says they are too busy to go through time management training, it's a bit like saying they're too thirsty to go get a drink of water. Funny, but painfully true. We must move past the discomfort. We cannot allow the pain that we're experiencing right now to prevent us from getting the help that we need to remove that pain. How do we do that? Well we can trick your mind into finding time to make time. One way to do this is to lengthen your perspective. Many people are focused only on what they can accomplish during the next week or two. It's human nature. It's something that I experience from time to time. We feel like we don't have time to do anything more because we're looking at what's going on in the next couple of weeks and see every minute filled. Instead, start thinking about not what you can accomplish in the next two weeks but what you can accomplish in the next two months, and if that's still too short-term, then what you can accomplish in the next two years. Here's how that works. Someone approaches me and says Dave, I want you to personally coach me through your program, but I'm too busy to do it. I ask them to pause for a moment and then say during the next several months, could you schedule time to go on a vacation? Or could you schedule time to go to a two-day seminar? The response is almost always well, yeah. If I could do it two or three months from now, then I can schedule that, and I say great, then let's put time in your calendar some time in the next two or three months to go through this course. You, or someone you know, can do the same thing with Time Management Fundamentals. It will take the average person about a day to complete that course in one sitting which is the way I recommend most people do it. Look several months ahead in your schedule. Where can you schedule an open day to complete the course? Block that day out from first thing in the morning until it's time to quit work, and schedule time that says go through Dave Crenshaw's Time Management Fundamentals. That signals to you and to anyone else who might have access to your calendar that that time is to be protected. Now if you work with somebody who needs this kind of help and have been struggling to find it, they may need your assistance setting this appointment with them. Also, there's value in checking in with them every week or two to make sure that they're still protecting that time. Do whatever you can to help them protect that scheduled date. It may bother them a bit now, but in the long run, they will thank you for caring. It is possible for anyone to take the time to make more time. All it takes is some advanced planning, a commitment to the schedule, and maybe a little help from a friend.