Alastair Wallace argues you can't manage time, only priorities. Save five minutes each work hour by cutting emails and meetings, and you gain 18.6 full working days yearly. A 15-minute cut to one weekly meeting saves a UK manager £2,386 a year.
"I don't have enough time." He needs to manage his time better. "I'm back to back this week." If I had a quid for every time— see what I did there— that someone said that to me, I'd be rich and sunning myself on a beautiful desert island by now. The simple fact is you cannot manage time. You can only manage yourself and your priorities. If your house was flooding, Would you have time to save your children, dog, beer mat collection? We need to let go of feeling like a time victim and start to take control back. So your hack here, folks, is to start small. Focus on saving 5 minutes every hour you are at work. That's one email you don't have to handle, shorter, more focused meetings, not attending a meeting at all, handling documents once, delegating a task. Streamlining a process. If you save 5 minutes per hour, it adds up to 18.6 full working days of time every year that you'll get back to do those really important projects you just never seem to find the time for. Reducing a weekly meeting with 6 managers from 60 to 45 minutes saves £2,386 a year. On the average manager's UK salary. So stop trying to manage time and start thinking, how can I manage my priorities better? I've got a whole session on this with my unique 7-step painless planning process. It will change your life. DM me for the details.
