HOW MUCH DO YOU HAVE TO WASTE?

"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst."

William Penn, 17th century English philosopher

Whether or not the time it takes you to read this quote is a waste of time depends on what, if anything, you do differently after.

THE BEST YOU CAN BE . . . ON TIME!

"Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today."

John Dryden

17th century British poet, dramatist and critic

Substitute "done all I could" for "lived" and this is the essence of time management.

How Much Time Do You Have?

"Time cuts down all, both great and small."

Unknown

In other words a lack of time is no excuse for failure, we all have 24/7 of however many days we live on this earth.

Use yours wisely.

How Much Time Do We Have Left?

"Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Late 18th/early 19th century German poet/author

And still we often wish the day would end.

We can't include time on our balance sheets even though it is the one asset which often has most to do with our success or failure.

Got The Time?

"You are not born of fame if you don't know the value of time."

Marquis de Vauvenargues

18th century French writer

All the talent and resources in the world will amount to little if you lack the time to do what you wish to do.

Waste it now, regret it later.

Time's Up!

"Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else."

Peter Drucker

20th century American business consultant, author, educator

As a board member of a mid sized company, I was asked to attend a management meeting the other day to discuss their approach to time management.

It seems they feel they have a problem managing their time.

The meeting lasted 2 hours.

Does anyone else see a problem with this?

Time Management: That Which We Know or That Which We Don't?

"I fear explanations explanatory of things explained."

Abraham Lincoln

You can count on Abe to get to the heart of things; in this case, using a mere seven words.

Next meeting you're in, take informal notice of how much time is devoted to discussion about things already known and agreed to as opposed to that which isn't. I'll bet, a majority or close to it.

Shouldn't it be the other way around?

Technology: Saving Time

"Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time."

Li Ka Shing
Hutchison Whampoa Chairman

This is likely the definition of value for more things than anything else isn't it? The one absolute certainty we all live with is that time is a limited resource.

Anything we can do to scrounge more of it will, to varying degrees, be of value to us and those companies and products that create more time for their customers will succeed over those that don't.

But how many companies view their products from the standpoint of time to use? Not likely many.