5 Steps to Give
Yourself More Time
Sometimes we are simply doing too much and the juggling
plays havoc with our emotional, physical and spiritual wellbeing.
We try to work smarter, make things more streamlined. We
try to do more and more and try and do it better and better.
We say yes to extra commitments when we really want to say
no.
Yet we all have the same amount of time available to us
AND
We have choices as to what we do with our time
(even if it doesn’t always feel that way)
Here are five steps to help you assess your time gremlins
and move towards a more time-relaxed way of living:
Step 1: Your Relationship With Time
What is your relationship with time right now?
Do you feel that the pace of your life is just right for
you or do you feel too ‘pressed’ for time?
Step
2: What Do You Want More Time For?
What three things would you like to do that you feel you don’t
have the time to do at the moment?
What is important about these things?
Step 3: What Takes Up Your Time?
Make a list of all the regular things that take up your time.
Here is a list to jog your mind – you will have many
others:
Working (subdivide
this), TV, Childcare, Shopping. paperwork, Socializing, Exercising,
Traveling, Committees, Hobbies, Gardening,
• Highlight the top three things that take up most of
your time?
• Circle the three things you like to do the least and
• Put a tick by the three things you like to do the
most?
Step
4: What Could You Cut Out?
What are three things that are not important to you right
now that you could cut out of your life?
Sometimes we need to make large sweeping cuts; sometimes we
only need a little tweak.
This list is just intended to spark your imagination:
• Social clubs you no longer enjoy
• That extra job you agreed to do
• all that clutter that’s taking up space in your
home and head
• That course you’ve started but don’t feel
is helping you
• People you no longer feel in congruence with
• That hour in front of the TV you’re not really
enjoying
And could you delegate?
• You partner could share more of the load
• Your children could do some chores
• Could you employ someone to do your ironing/housework/gardening/office
work?
Step 5: Let the Good Stuff In!!!
You have assessed where you are, what you want, what you don’t
want and got rid of some things that no longer serve you.
Now let the ‘good-stuff’ in:
The things that make you happy and relaxed
The things that are important to you
the things that make you smile with excitement
the things that make you a nicer person to be around
the things that let you live the life you’ve always
wanted
the things that make you, you!
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