How to Use Time Management to Gain 9 Years!

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If you’re wasting your life away watching TV you need to do several things…

1. Think about how much of your life you’re throwing away.

Seriously! Work it out! And work it out now! Work out how much time you spend watching TV last week. Now multiply that by 52 weeks and then by 10 years to see how much time you waste watching TV every decade.

Be realistic. Most people underestimate how much TV they actually watch. I used to say, “Oh I don’t really watch TV” but actually I still watched quite a bit whilst I was waiting for things to happen such as the food to cook.

2. Think about what this has cost you already.

Work out how much time you have spend watching TV to date in your life. How many years (?), months, weeks and hours have you spent watching TV?

Think what you could have done with that time. Think about how you’ve missed out. Think about all of the opportunities that you’ve already missed because of your love affair with the TV!

3. Decide what you’d like to achieve with that time.

Think about what you’re going to spend your newly found time on. What are you going to do? Why are you going to do it? How will you benefit by doing it? What will it mean for your finances, your social life, your hobbies, your prospects, your career and your personal wellbeing and fitness?

4. Visualize your new self.

Close your eyes for a moment and see yourself in 5 years time. Just imagine – 5 years without the TV. What will you have achieved and done in that time? Where will you be? What will you have that you don’t have now? What will you do that you don’t do now? Who will you become?

Picture yourself in your new life and let yourself “experience” it in panoramic detail. The more you do and have fun with this exercise the more powerful it will become for you.

5. Design your getting started action plan.

I’m bored of the hug a tree, rent a personal development coach, crowd banging on about how if you just focus on something it will happen.

Maybe it will just happen to happen for the lucky few but for 99% of people success requires action!

Here’s an important lesson for you… People who spout about success happenning if you think about it are at best mislead and at worst lying.

Mindset is critical, focus is critical but when you’ve done all of that you need to TAKE ACTION!

6. Turn off the TV and go do something else less boring instead!

And for most people, turning off the TV and going to do something less boring instead would be a good first step!

Pick something interesting and exciting that you can do one evening this week rather than watching the TV. Decide to go swimming rather than go home and watch the soaps, take action and got out for a meal with friends rather than staying home and watching the box, read a good book rather than vegging in front of the depressing news.

Good luck!

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