Know your time
Most discussions of the knowledge worker's task start with the advice to plan one's work. This sounds eminently plausible. The only thing wrong with it is that it rarely works. The plans remain on paper, always remain good intentions. They seldom turn into achivement.
Effective knowledge workers, in my observation, do not start with their tasks. They start with their time. And they do not start out with planning. They start by finding out where their time actually goes. Then they attempt to manage their time and to cut back unproductive demands on their time. Finally they consolidate their "discretionary" time into the largest possible continuing units.
Effective people know that time is the limiting factor. The output of any process are set by the scarcest resource. In the process we call "accomplishment," that resource is time.
The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not increase. There is no price for it and no marginal utility curve for it. Moreover, time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever and will never come back. Time is, therefore, always in exceedingly short supply.
Time is irreplaceable. We can substitute capital for human labor. But there is no substitute for time.
Everything requires time. It is the one truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.
This requires asking oneself diagnostic questions.
1. First, one tries to identify and eliminate the things that need not to be done at all, the things that are purely waste of time without any result whatever. To find these time-wasters, one asks of all activities in the time records, What would happen if this were not done at all? And if the answer is, Nothing would happen, then obviously the conclusion is to stop doing it.
2. The next question is, Which of the activities on my time log could be done by somebody else just as well, if not better?
3. A common cause of time-waste is largely under the executive's control and can be eliminated by him. That is the time of others he himself wastes.
To write a report may, for instance, require six or eight hours, at least for the first draft. It is pointless to give seven hours to the task by spending fifteen minutes twice a day for three weeks. All one has at the end is blank paper with some doodles on it. But if one can lock the door, disconnect the telephone, and sit down to wrestle with the report for five or six hours without interruption, one has a good chance to come up with what I call a "zero draft" - the one before the first draft. From then on, one can indeed work in fairly small installments, can rewrite, correct, and edit section by section, paragraph by paragraph, sentence by sentence.
word
1.eminently: 저명하게, 뛰어나게
2.plausible: 그럴듯한, 정말 같은, 말주변이 좋은
3.discretionary: 임의의, 자유재량의
4.irreplaceable: 바꿀 수 없는, 대체할 물건이 없는
5.diagnostic: 진단상의, 특징적인, 진단
6.doodle: 낙서, 바보, 하찮은 것
7.wrestle: 맞붙어 싸우다, 격투하다, 분투, 고분
8.indeed: 실로, 참으로, 정말로
Question
1.what type of controling time do you have? especially most of the people are focusing on task which is important or not but this article shows us how can we manage time it means just time to manage not manage your task. do you have inclination of the former or the latter
2.Do you have road map in your life? and describe us your road map if you have
3.I think time is the most important resource because it is the most limited factor if you have gone in your youth(you have time machine) what in those day do you want to go for example you want to go back in an elementary school day or in a high school day and tell us the reason to go back in those day
4.So you can go back in those day and you can also change your decision or behavior. do you wish to change your life(like the butterfly effect it`s movie`s name) or alter your big mistake
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