Conventional time management techniques teach that time is a limited resource. A radical change in the time management techniques is emerging that teaches that there is unlimited amount of time at our disposal, and everyone is capable of tap into that unlimited source of time.

Most of the people waste 99% of their time that they are conscious of, and effectively control only 1% of their time to productive use. All other conventional time management techniques focus on managing that 1% time. Conventional time management techniques do not teach how to tap into the 99% of the time that is wasted. The new radical time management technique does increases that available time to many times, allowing us do several time more things that is possible in one lifetime.

Leaders use this technique to be more effective in their life. Most of the leaders in various fields have achieved which others consider impossible in one lifetime. We term them as genius and assume that their mind works much faster than others does. In fact, in a close observation it will be found that most of the high achievers fail to do very simple tasks at times. Moreover, when need comes they work at speed of several people combine. They carry a tireless yet relaxed demeanor. They are the ordinary people with ordinary mental power; rather most of them have mental power much less than ordinary people. However, they compensate that with better understanding of time and make use of it to their advantage. Many of them develop that dimension as a survival strategy at very childhood, and over period of time that becomes an asset when they grow up. At “Next Generation Leader” we have researched that aspect and have articulated that dimension, and that has become a critical part of our Leadership Coaching.

Most of the people think time in single dimension. They see it as a linear progress and only deal with it that way. That is due to the faulty education or absolutely no education about time. People only know how to see a watch, how to calculate time arithmetically, and how to use a planner. They combine it all together and call it time management.

Following are brief about the radically new concept of time that not only helps one tap unlimited amount of time for use it also helps one manage the available time in most effective way.

Understanding the dimensions of time and its benefits

We experience time fly when we are engaged in a very interesting activity. Time fly when we are engaged in a romantic conversation, or we are with a loved one. We also experience time stops when we are in awkward situations. Every minute feels like an hour if we are waiting for someone. This is how our brain automatically chose to use other dimension of time. By doing that, it either speeds up or slows down its functions. This happens automatically as a response to specific situations in life. Below is diagram to explain that.

diagram 1

In the diagram, there is time axis and experience axis. The time axis represents the time measured by watch. The red line along time axis represents the time we experience our life and the way time appears to us. We experience a lot more in Instance A and after experiencing event A we notice the clock time has not passed much, and we feel as if time is not passing. However, in instance B we experience time moves faster than time passed in event A.

So far our brain does this switching based on the experience we are going through by speeding up or slowing down. This is an involuntary action by brain. This can be made voluntary with a better understanding of time. Power to control your brain can be obtained by better understanding of time. By understanding time, you bring time aspect to the conscious brain and able to consciously speedup or slowdown yourself.

What can you achieve by doing that? By speeding up yourself, you can arrive at a solution to a complex problem much faster. You maximize your time available to dwell and arrive at a right decision. It increases your alertness and reduces response time to any situation. This also makes your metabolism work faster and makes you active. It will be noticed as you being a very active, alert, tireless person with ready wit.

By slowing down yourself at will you can escape the boredom usually experienced after an active phase like A. You can conserve and accumulate energy in B state for following A. You can time your B state with the time of your rest, get a good sleep, and conserve energy. You will be seen as a parson with a greater emotional control.

Connection with time

The previous diagram is an ideal depiction of a life one can live, but it is far from reality. Most of us live our life like depicted in the image below. If you notice there is a lot of break in the lines and the red line is completely missing along the time line.

diagram 2

This indicates our real connection with the life around us. We do not make any impression on the event that we are part of. In this case both A and B event you will notice there is hardly any impression, as most of it is missing. Because of this way of our life we not only fail to understand details about the events and we also fail to make any real impression on the event or influence the event. This detached approach not only makes no impact on the events in life, also the events do not affect the person. The person lives his entire life in an unconscious or Zombi state.

Our life is full of events that we are part of. A leader is identified by its ability to influence the events that he or she is part of. While a leader influence the events the events also does influences a leader, and the leader lives a fulfilled life. Our coaching makes the vital connection with life. We wake people attentive to every moment of their life and living life fully.

Conventional time management skills

Conventional time management skill is useful only after one has access to all its time and is in control of its time. That is the first step that we coach our Leadership Training participants

Rest of the time management is the skill of estimating time for events, building reliable and efficient structure, Scheduling events, prioritizing events, setting reminder system, technique to identify distractions and remove them skillfully and following discipline.

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