by Terry Brussel-Gibbons Ph.D.
Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist
(in practice since 1969)
www.acesuccess.com
The purpose of this article is to enable you to get things done,
easily, effectively and on time. In business you will learn to
set firm priorities to be completed daily, weekly or monthly.
As a student, this will enable you to get your studying done in
a timely, comfortable and effective fashion. At home, you will
learn to enjoy completing household tasks rapidly and effectively
giving yourself time to accomplish the goals which bring you success.
You will learn to take delight in the timely completion of any
task you accept, whether it be calling prospects persuasively
and successfully, completing the studying needed to pass an exam,
doing whatever is needed to move to a higher level in your chosen
career or growing your own business
joyously and effectively.
There are 168 hours in your week. The purpose of this article
is to enable you to use those hours as effectively as possible
to accomplish your goals. Through hypnosis, you can learn
to put good time management habits in place deep in your subconscious
mind. Its magic is in enabling you to automatically practice
those new habits in place of any negative ones you may have used
in the past. I have included here some very basic time scheduling
ideas to give you something to work with for now.
It would certainly be useful to obtain the more extensive materials
available on this subject. Read books and take classes on effective
time management. It is a subject well worth studying.
You will begin with a list of goals. Be specific, such goals
as calling a certain number of prospects each week and closing
a specific number of deals each month, paying all outstanding
bills Wednesday evening each week, being prepared to take the
Bar no later than three weeks before it’s being given are
all good examples. Each of these goals and others you set for
yourself include action steps for their accomplishment--calling
a certain number of prospects is actually an action step to closing
a certain number of deals each week, month or whatever.
Action steps for being prepared to take the Bar could include
such things as studying for three hours a day and enrolling in
that excellent tutorial program you've heard about.
You can make a schedule of daily, weekly, and monthly activities
to insure that your goals and the tasks on your daily To Do list
all get accomplished. call the Success Center for a complimentary
time management sheet.
The printed schedule I'm referring to lists most of what you regularly
do with your time. If you don't have it, list now
the amount of time in minutes or hours per week you spend on eating,
cooking, shopping, driving, socializing, personal toiletries,
TV watching, reading for pleasure or education, going to religious
services, quality time spent with spouse and children, your
regular job, attending service club meetings and whatever else
applies to you personally. Count things you do monthly as one
fourth of the monthly time per week. Don't leave anything off
that list
The printed schedule also contains a grid with the time of day
along the left side (every half hour, though you may want one
for every 15 minutes depending on the kind of work you do), with
days of the week at the top. This is designed to allow to create
a standard schedule of how you plan to spend your time. Put in
first, the set things you do with your time--attending class Wednesday
nights or the sales meeting you are required to be at 9 to 10
am Tuesdays. Then put in the more variable items such as socializing
and self improvement activities. Have an ‘A’
and ‘AB’ activity in any slot not under your direct
control. The ‘A’ activity may be giving a sales
presentation to a prospect while the ‘B’ activity
(for when you couldn't schedule a live prospect) is making cold
calls to set up a sales presentation. The ‘A’
activity may be spending the day with your daughter while the
‘B’ activity for when she is otherwise occupied (like
with a camping trip) is to take your mother for a drive. The ‘A’
and ‘B’ activities should be related in purpose.
For now, make a list of everything you do that earns you money
or will earn you money. This includes filing
papers, paying bills and closing million dollar deals. It
includes driving to appointments, hiring a new secretary and training
that secretary. It includes working that part time multilevel
you are expecting to make you financially independent--going to
meetings, calling prospects to buy and sell that product, and
delivering skin care products to your sister across town.
Go through that list and note in writing the things that are
‘A’, urgent and important; ‘B,’ urgent
not important-- got to be done today but isn't contributing to
your long term goals; ‘C’, important not urgent such
as writing your novel or finishing a Master's Degree; ‘D,’
not urgent, not important-- busy work. ‘DEL’
for delegate. In order to decide what to delegate, figure how
much your time is worth per hour and write that down.
Figure out if each task you do is worth your time. If you
are spending your $50/hr. time doing a $5 an hour job you should
hire a $5/hr. worker to do it, if possible.
Other things you delegate if you are in a business are things
that somebody else either under or over you can really do better
than you can, because you're good at certain things and your time
is very valuable when used for those things. If you are
doing a painter's $10/hr job and you can't do it as well as he
can, you're really wasting your time. If your time is worth
$25 an hour, but it will take you eight hours to fix your car,
it may be worth hiring a $30 an hour mechanic to do it in two
hours instead. This is also safer. Be sure that if somebody
can do a particular task better than you can or if the particular
task in question is not worth your time that you are delegating
it.
There are average times filled in on your printed time management
sheet for regularly reoccurring activities such as eating 10.5
hrs a week and sleeping 56 hours week. Some of these times
will not be correct for you. If they aren't, change them to what
is correct. Count the hours you end up with. If that figure
is more than 168, you may have figured in something twice, such
as individual quality time with your husband and eating time.
The half hour per meal already figured in for eating should be
deducted from the two hours you spend for dinner out with your
love. If you combine housework and watching your favorite
tv program, only one of these activities counts. You
may be getting in more than the 168 hours by giving up sleep time
needed for your health. This is not a good idea. It may
require keeping a time log for a week or two to see how your time
is really being spent.
If you are not using the whole 168 hours, consider what you might
do with the left over time to increase your income-- by starting
or really starting to work a part time business or putting
more smart time into the business you already own. You may choose
to use that extra time towards accomplishing a major goal such
as writing a book. Such things are accomplished by allotting
them regular time in your calendar.
Post your planned schedule in your living room, bed room, and
office. Put one in the glove compartment of your car.
Be sure that schedule is mirrored in your actual appointment
calendar. If you don't have such a calendar, get one today.
Your time is your most important commodity and managing it properly
is imperative. A good, professional appointment calendar is essential
for this.
Your goals and your schedule will be to referred to during this
tape, so it is best to make at least a rudimentary list before
continuing. If you have used the ‘Will to Learn’
CD be sure the activities on this new list are supportive of those
longer range goals you have set for yourself.
Here
are some samples from my Time Management CD
Imagine yourself strong, confident, and relaxed. Feeling
good about yourself. Mind and body functioning in perfect
harmony at top efficiency, able to do all those things that are
important to you and do them well. You set detailed goals
and update them regularly. You keep your planned schedule
posted in your bedroom, your living room, your office, and your
car. It helps you to use your time effectively. It
feels good to accomplish the action steps for reaching your goals
easily, effectively and on time. You take pride in planning
your time effectively to get each task on your daily to do list
accomplished in a relaxed, efficient way. Feel yourself
changing now. Becoming the person you wish to be, changing
now, and know that each and every moment of each and every day
you are more and more the person you wish to be, each and every
moment of every and every day, you draw nearer and nearer to accomplishing
your goals.
You enjoy getting things done, easily, effectively, on time.
You relax into your deadlines, having finished your task earlier
than necessary because you enjoy the freedom of being finished
with something important. Completing a task early, gives
you that sense of freedom and accomplishment.
You take pride in planning your time effectively to get each
task on your daily to do list accomplished in a relaxed, efficient
way. You keep an appointment calendar which helps you make organized,
effective use of your time. It feels good to make the best
possible use of your time to get what you want out of life in
ways both business and personal. You schedule time for making
money and time for regular exercise, time for building financial
independence and time to spend with those you love... time for
building wealth and time for enjoying that wealth, time for worldly
success and time for spiritual growth, time for all that
is important to you. It feels good to plan your time effectively
to get what you want in every area of your life.
Feel the image of yourself as you wish to be sinking deep within
you, becoming part of you, changing as you change, moving forward
as you do. And always you are moving forward, always you
are becoming the person you wish to be.
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Terry Brussel Gibbons, PhD, is a certified Clinical Hypnotherapist
with over 35 years experience. She is the Director of Success
Center in Encino, California. She is also a success coach,
keynote speaker, hypnotherapist trainer and author.
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