My inbox gets filled daily with eZines, solo broadcasts and regular e-mail.  I’ll be honest, if you’re not a client, and you don’t grab my attention in the first ten seconds, chances are your eZine doesn’t get read by me.  Bad, I know… but honest.

A few days ago, I received a broadcast that I read straight through.  It’s from a friend, Tera Warner, and I like to keep up with what’s going on in her beautiful world.  It was an e-mail providing inspiration for a 30 day cleanse I’m supposed to be doing but judging from the pile of M&M wrappers filling my recycling bin, I’m obviously not sticking to the plan 😉

Anyway, aside from the fact that the e-mail was from a friend and about a program I’m supposed to be participating in, the e-mail caught my attention because it’s about a subject I’ve been thinking about a lot lately: time management.

She had me at “hello” — her subject line was “You don’t *have* time, you make it!”

Now I’m all about making time.  I always schedule the important things in my day physically on my calendar – exercise, appointments, personal projects, sometimes even something inane like “step away from the computer, silly girl, and go clean your house!” (Honest, that’s scheduled for 12 PM today so I better hurry up with this post!)

Here are some more gems from the little e-mail I received:

Time, my dear, is nothing more than a consideration.  People who say they don’t have time are simply not mastering their use of it.  You have time.

We determine to a VERY LARGE degree, how time plays itself out in our lives.  If you don’t feel you “have” time, “make” time.

There are a few things that determine your ability to master your use of time. One of them is having clear targets and objectives for your day, your week, your year, your life… Do you have a clear purpose or goal and are you directing yourself towards that purpose?

Having a battle plan, or to do list for your day helps put it all in perspective and keep you focused.  That definitely helps with productivity, but there are other things, too. Unfinished commitments will drag you down and slow you down.

Sometimes, there are things that we simply put off doing.  It’s not that we don’t “have” time, we don’t make time.  Perhaps it’s something we have difficulty confronting (like taxes, for example, or stacks of photographs waiting to be sorted).  The time we spend avoiding something is often more than the time it would take to get it done.

Let’s also be mindful over the next few days of how we communicate about time. Whenever you hear yourself say, “I don’t have time…” Pinch yourself and change the game.

“I wonder why I’m not making time to…”

“I’m going to make time to…”

You will HAVE what you want when you decide to DO what it takes to make it happen.  Whether it’s time, money or the things you want in your life.  You can HAVE when you decide to DO what it takes
to make things happen.

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