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How to Give Your Life the Time It Needs?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Measuring Your Length of Time – Part 2<\/span><\/h3>\n

How is time impacting the business called your life?<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you have enough time to do the things that matter in your life or are you struggling to find time?  Or are you wasting time and don\u2019t really see it as a waste?<\/span><\/p>\n

In our previous web-post, we discussed the facets that impact your time: your job, your work, and your life.  We need to spend just a little more time with this last facet, our lives. Let me remind you that there is no separation between your job, your work, and your life when it comes to time.  Time will never respect any of these facets, neither will time show favoritism towards one over the other. This is all on you. With that said, popular thinking will have you think your time for each is seperate.  The world around us makes it seem that the 40 hours you work on a job doesn\u2019t interfere with the other facets of your life. By now you and I know that\u2019s wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"The Thought or Concept:
\n<\/span>The business of your life
\n<\/b>This facet known as your life is what I call the business of your life.  If your job and your work all have strategies for accomplishing goals, so should your life.  If your job and your work require you to have scheduled appointments, meetings, and project plans, then so does your life.  Otherwise, you\u2019ll never accomplish anything for your life because you\u2019ll never be able to find the time. \u201cFind the time.\u201d Do you know that you\u2019ll never find time just laying in wait until you pick it up. There\u2019s no extra time sitting on a shelf somewhere for you.  Until you begin to make time (what I mean by that is schedule it), you\u2019ll never have the time you need to do life. You\u2019ll have a life, but it will fail to give you what you want out of it. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Practice:
\n<\/span>Managing Your Life Requires You To Put The Segments Together
\n<\/b>I\u2019ve broken life down into three time-categories.  I\u2019m sure you can come up with more. No matter how many you come up with, you\u2019ll need to put them altogether in order to manage your life, which is your business, in the time you have allocated for it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look at the three areas.<\/span><\/p>\n