Managing Your Time
Our experience of time is that it goes by quickly. There is a feeling that it is always speeding up and that we are running just to keep pace. Time management is one of the most important skills that we must be a student of in order to live in the way that we want. We will look at time at the three levels as well as seven cycles (Now, Day, Week, Month, Year, Stage, Lifetime) and learn the practices which will allow us to master time at each level & cycle. The following three videos are recordings of a faculty workshop series on I gave on Time Management at the University of Utah in August 2020.
Part 1: Mastering the Now and the Days
Increasing: Focus and Putting Important Things First / Decreasing: Distractions
Materials:
- Download How to REALLY Manage Time – Worksheets (for note taking)
- Download Cycle 1 PDF below
- Download Cycle 2 PDF below
Part 2: Mastering the Week and the Months
Increasing: Block of Time and Flexing Time to Priorities / Decreasing: Doing Everything Yourself
Materials:
- Download How to REALLY Manage Time – Worksheets (for note taking)
- Download Cycle 3 PDF below
- Download Cycle 4 PDF below
Part 3: Mastering the Year and Lifetime
Increasing: Intentionality and Setting Goals / Decreasing: Saying ‘Yes’ to Marginal Things
Materials:
- Download How to REALLY Manage Time – Worksheets (for note taking)
- 50 Goals Template
- Download Cycle 5 PDF below
- Download Cycle 6 PDF below
- Download Cycle 7 PDF below
Time “Flows” and Time is “Cyclical”
The analogy of life and time is a river that flows. Within the flow are seven “cycles”, each representing a scale of time. The following PDFs is a series of worksheets designed to be printed and written on. They are designed to help you manage time and priorities in life in each of the seven cycles.
Cycle 1: The Now (Present Moment)
Themes: Awareness – Intuition – Presence – Focus
This cycle worksheet is designed to help reduce mental clutter and to focus on effective action in the moment. (For example use, please see the above video: How to Manage Your Time Part 1)
Cycle 2: The Day
Themes: One Focus – Routines – Reflections
This cycle worksheet is designed to promote positive routines, focus, and reflection to optimize the day. (For example use, please see the above video: How to Manage Your Time Part 1)
Cycle 3: The Week
Themes: A Snapshot of Life – Work/Life/Rest
This cycle worksheet is designed to promote rhythm and balance between work-life-rest within the week. (For example use, please see the above video: How to Manage Your Time Part 2)
Cycle 4: The Month / Quarter
Themes: Habits – Initiating Change – Alignment with Season
This cycle worksheet is designed to promote longer-term work such as projects or higher-level efforts at change. (For example use, please see the above video: How to Manage Your Time Part 2)
Cycle 5: The Year
Themes: Growth – Relationship – Achievement
This cycle worksheet is designed to promote the setting of annual and quarterly goals. (For example use, please see the above video: How to Manage Your Time Part 3)
Cycle 6: The Life Stage
Themes: Beginnings – Progress – Culmination – Transition
This cycle worksheet is designed to promote the an understanding of where one is in the current life stage. To calculate the “number” for the current year, use the process in this link. (For example use, please see the above video: How to Manage Your Time Part 3)
Cycle 7: The Lifetime
Themes: Meaning – Community – Puporse
This cycle worksheet is designed to promote and understanding of the stages in life and the work of one’s current stage. (For example use, please see the above video: How to Manage Your Time Part 3)
