What the Power Time Management System will do for you is help you get to a point, where you are operating on a sustainable level. What you are doing and want to do are in line with your resources and your time availability. Hopefully you are working on establishing your Power Life List. This tool will be invaluable to help you get a clear picture of the things that you would like to do, now and as far into the future as you want to go. You need to know what the future could hold for you, if you plan to take charge of it.

Next, I hope you are spending some time on getting a handle on some of the goals you have set out for yourself. If you are Time Activating specific goals and the actions that you need to be completing to make those goals become a reality, you should be getting a clearer picture of where you stand on what goals may make the cut and which ones will be put on the back burner or removed totally. Which brings us to Day 3.

The reality for most of us is this: we want too much, we overfill our plates, and as a result, we end up being fairly unhappy and unfulfilled. That may be somewhat of a gloomy picture, but the good part is this, it does not have to be like that. What we want to start to do is this; we want to get to a point where we are the ones calling the shots, where we decide what gets done and when it gets done. That will put us in a place where we end up feeling better about ourselves and we start to chalk up victories instead of defeats.

To get there, there has to a reckoning of sorts. We need to start to dump some things off our plates. We need to give ourselves some breathing room and we are going to want to reduce the pressure we have unknowingly placed on ourselves. We want to start to clean house and we will do it 3 ways:

I have worked with over 60,000 people in the last 30 odd years. I have yet to meet a person who did not have too many things on the go, did not have too many directions they were going in; we are all guilty to varying degrees of the same overload habit. You need to simply look at what you are trying to accomplish and make some tough choices. The easiest choice is to dump off your plate and out of your schedule, jobs, tasks and activities that you are currently not able to accomplish.

This step does not mean forever. It just means for now, while you are trying to get a better balance between what you want to do and what you are able to do. You are just going to put some things back into your Power Life List, where they will sit, perhaps to be pulled out at a better time for you. This step is part of the process to put you back in control; you decide what gets done and you make those choices from a position of power, not out of desperation.

You start replacing some activities with other activities; filling up the same time slots. Instead of spending an hour a day on Internet activities, you decide that you would prefer to spend that time with your family, or friends. Time Management is about improving your quality of life, above everything else. We have only so much time, and so many things pulling at us to fill that time. Some things are just not that important that we will want to invest our time on them.

We can start to replace business tasks with personal activities, start to double up on certain tasks so we free up more time latter on for other things we would prefer to be doing. It's our time, its nonrenewable; we need to be very careful where we invest it. Once our time is gone, it's gone forever.

The Power Time Management System will be a pivotal force in helping you regain some balance in your life. If you are like most of us, we tend to overload on activities and things we have on the go. You may want to look at reducing the large tasks, jobs and activities that you are currently doing. When you start to work your way through the Power Time Management System, this is going to be a job that, at some point, you will need to do.

Part of the goal of dumping, replacing and reducing what is in your daily routine, is to bring some balance and sustainability into your life. This is a process that does not happen overnight, but you will experience some immediate positive benefits from just investing a little time on any of these 3 components.

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The Power Time Management System is set up to make these 3 processes work for you. We all need to learn that there is only so much useable quality time available to each of us, each day. When that time is gone, we have to move on to the next chunk of time. We have to look at our time, in its entirety and know we have to start to make choices. How we make those choices, determines our future.