Time For Building Wealth: Do Less
Perhaps I was hard on you in the last post, so let’s lighten it up a bit and see if we can’t do something real to alleviate your pressure and open up some time so that adding more to your day can be less taxing. In reality there are few people who get time-management right. Few people are as disciplined as they could or should be, and so the bulk of us are wasting time that could be used instead for something really good—something like getting rich, building wealth. That’s a pretty good reward for a little more discipline, isn’t it?
Don’t Find Time, Make Time
You cannot find time. It already exists. You already have all the time you are going to get. So if you are spending your days looking for more so that you can start to create wealth, you will be disappointed. The time is there, you just need to find a way to make it happen for you.
One way to make time happen is to take away that which steals it from you. You may think this is impossible, but for most people it is not. Let’s take a look, then, at the things that can possibly go.
• Mindless entertainment—relaxation is important, but if you could give up some mindless TV, movies, or trashy novels you can replace them with educational wealth videos and podcasts, financial empowerment books, and motivational CD’s.
• Time wasters—there are so many possibilities here it seems an endless subject. Are other people wasting your time? Don’t let them. Do you talk on the phone too much? Email too much? IM? Spend more time than is necessary in meetings and travel (can you work from home and spend less time commuting)?
• Obsessions—some of us do things too well—things that don’t really matter that much. Maybe you vacuum three times a day or obsessively check your email. Figure out what is necessary and good, do that, but nothing more.
I’m sure you can add to this list. Maybe you can even give me some tips. If you can please do. We all need more time for what is most important, beneficial, and productive. We all need more time to prioritize our financial futures. We all need to make that time.
Sean Rasmussen
Wealth Creation Blog
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Tags: Building Wealth, Education, Financial, Motivation, Obsession, Time Management
August 3rd, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Your article is well-said. Time is already there, what we need is really to MAKE time for the things we deem important and necessary.
I believe our self-discipline is an essential element in this time-control issue. Practice makes perfect. Therefore, continual practice should be implemented to remind us mentally of this time wasting matter, and replacing it with good stuff.
Thanks for the information and message in your post.
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