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The Question of the Week…11/29/2011
Posted by urenough | Filed under Blog
We polled 3600 people ages 25-55, and asked a simple question…”How far out do you book new appointments?”
The answers we received were eye-opening.
Over 75% said that they book things no more than 2 weeks out….
20% said that they tend to stay within 7 days…
3% said that they will drop what they are doing, and make the new task the #1 priority (whether it was important or not)
2% were undecided, or couldn’t say for sure one way or another 
What this tells us is that the vast majority of people live within the confines of a 2 week window. Did you ever hear the saying about “…fitting 10lbs of crap in a 5# bag”? This is what the average person does on a daily basis. Because they do not have a plan that they can execute and therefore truly manage their time effectively, they allow others to dictate what their priorities are.
Some people will use this as way to procrastinate on tasks that they are afraid to take on. Rather than set them as a #1 priority, they rationalize that they are over-booked and so the ‘hard’ task gets pigeon-holed for another time…over and over again until it falls completely off their plate. Then they to live our lives. We are not meant to continually stress ourselves over time. We all are given the same amount of minutes in the day, and it is up to us to determine how we will spend them. Remember that time isn’t like your vacation time from your job. There is no carry-over and you either use it or lose it.
Why spend time foolishly? What if each minute was a dollar, and you were given the task of spending every dollar each day, and whatever you didn’t spend would be taken from you at the end of the day? What would you spend your money on? Would you invest it so that it produces more money that you can spend, or would you waste it on impulsive things and have nothing to show for yourself at the end of each day?
Time is no different. If you want to eventually have as much time as you could want to do the things that you enjoy, you must spend or invest your time in things that will in turn produce an abundance of time due to efficiencies and good management skills.
Time management is something that most don’t take the time to understand or implement. Again, like the analogy of money…if you invest your time it will provide dividends. But if you waste it, you will undoubtedly spend the remainder of your time on wondering where all your time went! Sounds like a riddle, doesn’t it?
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