I always chuckle a little to myself when a client asks for a workshop on Time Management, You know, there really is no such thing as time management. We can’t manage time.

Each one of us gets the same 24 hours, 1,440 minutes, 86,400 seconds in a day. You can’t save up time from today to be used tomorrow or borrow from next week for today. Time is external to us - we have no control over it. It ticks away, a second at a time, and when it is past, can never be reclaimed.

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The bad news is, time flies. The good news is, you’re the pilot. - Michael Altshuler

I am a mother of two children under the age of two. As such, I often feel like a pilot of an airplane. Not only do I need to care for my precious cargo, a husband and two little ones, but I am trying desperately to maintain a job, raise my children the best I can, and last, but not least, get to my final destination on time. With all of my responsibilities as pilot, time is a very precious commodity. I felt like I was doing a fair job of managing my time. But just the other day I received a wake-up call when my oldest daughter repeated three little words that escape my lips too often. No, unfortunately, they words were not “I love you,” but “just a minute.” Hearing her say that phrase told me there was definitely a problem that needed my immediate attention.

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If you were to take all of the tools you currently posses, your skills, your education, your experience, your laptop, your blackberry, and all other technology, and focus only on tasks, you would probably find yourself to be the most “productive” person on the planet. You could get much more done in much less time compared to everyone else. You could check off items from your daily “to-do” list at exponential rates, creating space for you to do more and more and more.

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A few weeks ago our Management Team had just finished our regular weekly meeting. As we came out of the meeting, other co-workers informed us about a wild fire at the south end of the valley on the mountain side. At first, we thought it was no big deal, even though another co-worker and I actually lived in that area. I wasn’t concerned about the situation because I don’t often think about having my home burn down. A few minutes later, my wife called me to let me know that she could actually see flames on the mountainside and while they were not very close to our home, she was becoming concerned.

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