Using Your Time Wisely to Lead to Your Life and Career Change
By Michael Werner
We often speak about how we don’t have enough time. “I’m just too busy to really look into that new job,” we say. We complain that there’s just not enough time to pursue that dream job passion.
Oh yeah?
I ain’t buyin’ it. We all have the same amount of time. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
If you choose to spend your time watching television (just one of the all-time greatest-time-wasters in the history of the human species), then you’re not investing your time in yourself. You’re wasting it.
Here’s what one of my latest favorite authors, Jeffrey Gitomer, says about your use of time, in what is, I think, going to be an all-time classic book, The Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude:
Which do you think is a more powerful use of your time: watching other people’s problems or investing in yourself and creating plans and solutions? Here are four solution-based uses of your time:
Read. Trade journals, self-help books, positive attitude books, anything humorous, sales books, trendsetting books, and annual reports and brochures of your biggest customers. Study.
Listen. Self-help CDs. Invest.
Mastermind. Attract (smart) friends and associates to your house once a week to create new ideas and action plans. Invite.
Compute. This includes writing, planning, learning, and Internetting. The computer is the biggest link to the twenty-first century. Master it. Explore.
Now, Dream Job Questor, are you employing solution-based uses of your time?
Tell me about ‘em.
Michael Werner runs Dream Jobs Dialog and is also the CEO of InfoSource, Inc., a company trying hard not to be like Microsoft.
