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Focus and Time

Wednesday Jul 01 2009

By Shae Hadden | Bio

What we do with our time seems to be an ongoing topic of interest for many. Popular belief says we need to balance time for 'work' and 'life'. Innumerable authors and experts have invented tools and techniques for us to 'manage' our time. Common sense says that procrastination occurs when we 'waste' time doing nothing or doing things other than what we say we're going to do. More experts have written about how we can get motivated, stop procrastinating and get down to business. Then why is it that many still struggle with trying to stay focused on what they really want to do?

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Written by eldering at Learning

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Wasting Time

Friday Aug 31 2007

I am not sure it’s possible to waste time. It is possible to spend time, and waste is always a judgement relative to some standard or expectation of what we should be doing with our time. We can use time to do things that we judge as having maximum or high value. When we are really up against a deadline and there is more to do than we think can be done in the time allotted, we can even somehow create time. Yet, there are many times when I just don’t feel like doing whatever it is I think I should do. [Read More]

Written by eldering at Personal Empowerment
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