Execution Tip: Think about your time perception
December 26th, 2009
If there are any goals that you are struggling to complete on time or at high levels of quality, think about how much time you perceive there is to complete them at a level of quality that you are satisfied with. If you do not perceive enough time to achieve them, you may wish to think about how to set the goal in a way that is more sensitive to your time constraints.
For example, the goal “Talk with John for one hour a week” could be changed to: “Talk with John for between 15-60 minutes per week depending on my time constraints.” This way, you will be more likely to be able to achieve the goal even if you only have 15 minutes instead of the normal 60 minutes during a given week.
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[...] Perception of enough time to do what we wish to do. We tend to only attempt to do what we believe we have time to do – and find all kinds of ways to avoid what we do not think we will have time to do. Ironically, many people report that they often find between 20-40 hours every week that they could have used to do more of what they wanted to do. Clearly, perception of time availability is not always reality. We normally have much more time than we perceive to do what we wish – if we are willing to stop doing certain things we do not want to do as much! Doing fewer less important things increases our time perception – and doing levels go up as our perception of time increases. Click here for ideas on how to increase time perception. [...]